APPIC Internship Interview Invitation Thread (2020)

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Do sites that call also send a rejection email or should I just assume that I did not receive an interview if the call date has passed?
This issue comes up a fair bit. On the forum most people have said that most sites send rejections. Some sites also have round two individuals who they may contact. Others may not have a round two, and just a very slow rejected letter to come. One of mine sent a mass rejection a week and change later, and it was not a 2nd string concept, it was just simply slow to send. Other thing noted on the forum people have said is that the day after the 'deadline' it is kosher to phone the site and ask for information. Wishing you well in this process!
 
Official Site Name: Rocky Mountain VA Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Gero track
Offered Interview Dates: 1/6,1/13,1/27
 
Official Site Name: Rocky Mountain VA Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Gero track
Offered Interview Dates: 1/6,1/13,1/27

Congrats!
 
Official Site Name: Nicklaus Children's Hospital
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Ped health track
Offered Interview Dates: 1/7,1/8
 
Official Site Name: Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology, Boston Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): N/A
Offered Interview Dates: 12/12/19

This is my top site! And my first interview offer! I am so excited.
 
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Official Site Name: Nicklaus Children's Hospital
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Ped Neuro
Offered Interview Dates: 1/7,1/8
 
Official Site Name: Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation: mass email, phone call to follow
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): doesn't specify
Offered Interview Dates: 12/11, 1/8, 1/15
 
Interviews for two tracks with different dates at the same site. Email says they want you to do two separate interview days, one for each track (back to back dates is possible).

Official Site Name: Geisinger Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Pediatric IPC
Offered Interview Dates: 12/17, 12/20, 1/6, 1/17

Official Site Name: Geisinger Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Peds Psych
Offered Interview Dates: 12/12, 12/16, 1/9, 1/16, 1/20

Email says I have three days to respond or my slot will be offered to another candidate.
 
Official Site Name: VA San Diego Healthcare System/University of California, San Diego
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Mass Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Rady Child Outpatient Psychiatry
Offered Interview Dates: 1/13-1/17
 
Y'ALL I CAN FINALLY PARTICIPATE!!!!! At least I have one! Woohoo!

Official Site Name: Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation’s Mental Health Centers
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/2019
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass e-mail
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Adolescent/young adult
Offered Interview Dates: January 10th
(In honor of last year) If & How you're staying sane: yoga, reading, playing with dog, spending time with partner, eating my feelings hahaha
Yesss what are your feelings made of?
 
Official Site Name: Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology, Boston Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): N/A
Offered Interview Dates: 12/12/19

This is my top site! And my first interview offer! I am so excited.
Good luck!!!
 
Official Site Name: Yale Doctoral Internship in Community and Clinical Psychology
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/2019
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Consultation, Prevention, and Program Evaluation Services/The Consultation Center
Offered Interview Dates: January 10th
(In honor of last year) If & How you're staying sane: yoga & Bob Marley

Official Site Name: Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/2019
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): N/A
Offered Interview Dates: January 9th

Invites received last week:
Official Site Name: VAMHCS/UM SOM Psychology Internship Consortium
Date Invitation Received: 11/22/2019
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): School Mental Health
Offered Interview Dates: Thursday January 9th & Thursday, January 16th

Official Site Name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date Invitation Received: 11/22/2019
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Child track
Offered Interview Dates: Friday, January 10th ; Friday January 17th and Friday, January 24th

Official Site Name: Rush University Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 11/21/2019
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Child track
Offered Interview Dates:
Thursday, December 19th
Friday, December 20th
Thursday, January 9th
Friday, January 10th
Thursday, January 16th
 
Official Site Name: Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology, Boston Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/2019
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass e-mail
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): N/A
Offered Interview Dates: December 12th
(In honor of last year) If & How you're staying sane: Netflix..Disney+... and Hulu are my babies atm lol.
 
Official Site Name: Manhattan VA
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): N/A
Offered Interview Dates: 12/06
(In honor of last year) If & How you're staying sane: Cleaning...

Official Site Name: Northport VA
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): N/A
Offered Interview Dates: 12/9, 12/11, 12/13, 12/16, 1/6
 
I apologize for the delay in updating DMs the last couple days. This tiny job of updating the site list and DMs has given me some empathy for the TDs blowing their notification deadlines. I hope everyone is enjoying the weekend a bit and not refreshing their email constantly unless of course that is what you enjoy doing.

*Please note the sites listed below were sent to me to post by users who wish to remain anonymous and are not my invite/rejections/information:
Official Site Name: Tennessee Internship Consortium
Date Invitation Received: 11/20/2019
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): N/A they said you can rank either rotation
Offered Interview Dates: January
(In honor of last year) If & How you're staying saneogs

Official Site Name: Eastern Oklahoma VA Healthcare System
Date Invitation Received: 11/21/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General
Offered Interview Dates: Jan 14, 22

Official Site Name: Tripler Army Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 11/22/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General
Offered Interview Dates: Dec 2-5 video, Dec. 6 in person

Official Site Name: Womack Army Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 11/22/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General
Offered Interview Dates: 12/13

Official Site Name: Hennepin Healthcare
Date Invitation Received: 11/21/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Personal Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Child Track
Offered Interview Dates: 1/6 or 1/10


Official Site Name: Hennepin Healthcare (formerly Hennepin County Medical Center)
Date Invitation Received: 11/21/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Child track
Offered Interview Dates: 1/6 or 1/10

Official Site Name: University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Date Invitation Received: 11/21
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Child
Offered Interview Dates: 12/4, 12/9, 12/13, 1/7, 1/9
(In honor of last year) If & How you're staying sane: friendship and camaraderie with my cohort-mates.

Official Site Name: Applewood Centers, Inc.
Date Invitation Received: 11/22/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): phone call
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): N/A
Offered Interview Dates: 1/6/20, 1/10/20, 1/13/20, 1/17/20 morning and afternoon times
(In honor of last year) If & How you're staying sane: Decorating for the holidays

Official Site Name: The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center OKC VA Consortium/Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Date Invitation Received: 11/21/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Child Clinical Track
Offered Interview Dates: 12/4, 12/9, 12/13, 1/7, 1/9

I also received this message via DM:
"I also wanted to provide an update for Morrison Child & Family Services; maybe you can put this information somewhere. There was a mass e-mail from the TD sent on 11/19/20 indicating that the internship was closing down and would not be accepting interns for the 20-21 year. Because this decision came one week after the application deadline, I reached out to someone from APPIC via chat, and they said that they would forward a request on my behalf to get a refund. I haven't seen the refund yet, but at least they seemed willing. So, I hope others know they can do the same."

I just had a live chat with APPI customer service re: a refund for the Morrison app fee, and they said "The manager has submitted all refund requests. It will take a week or so for you to see the money back in your back account but just know we are actively working on it." FYI!
 
Has anyone else taken internship season as an opportunity to unsubscribe from useless listservs you've been on for years? LOL, I've gotten so annoyed at getting excited about an email only to find it's a listserv that I never use, so I've just been unsubscribing from everything so I can prevent these instances of excitement-followed-by-disappointment-at-receiving-some-email-about-a-happy-hour-special-from-a-chain-restaurant-I-never-go-to-anymore.
 
Has anyone else taken internship season as an opportunity to unsubscribe from useless listservs you've been on for years? LOL, I've gotten so annoyed at getting excited about an email only to find it's a listserv that I never use, so I've just been unsubscribing from everything so I can prevent these instances of excitement-followed-by-disappointment-at-receiving-some-email-about-a-happy-hour-special-from-a-chain-restaurant-I-never-go-to-anymore.

I just got a phone call from what I hoped was a site telling me I was "invited to a .... Black Friday presale" for some company I'd supposedly shopped with before. Crushed. 🤣
 
I just got a phone call from what I hoped was a site telling me I was "invited to a .... Black Friday presale" for some company I'd supposedly shopped with before. Crushed. 🤣

I got an email from someone with an important-sounding name and the subject line was "We're grateful for you." And I was like, aawww, what a sweet TD! Lmao, obviously it wasn't a TD.
 
I just had a live chat with APPI customer service re: a refund for the Morrison app fee, and they said "The manager has submitted all refund requests. It will take a week or so for you to see the money back in your back account but just know we are actively working on it." FYI!
Thank you for sharing! I keep meaning to reach out to them about this but it sounds like it has been taken care of!
 
Official Site Name: University of California San Diego/VA Psychology Internship Program
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Eating Disorders Clinic & Rady Inpatient Child and Adolescent Psych Services
Offered Interview Dates: 1/13-1/17
(In honor of last year) If & How you're staying sane: Playing the new Pokemon Shield game 🙂
 
Posting for a friend....

Official Site Name: UCLA Semel Institute
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General child track (they said in the email they are still reviewing other tracks)
Offered Interview Dates: 1/10/19 and 1/17/19

Official Site Name: University of California San Diego/VA Psychology Internship Program
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Rady outpatient and inpatient tracks
Offered Interview Dates: offered week of 1/13-1/17
 
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Has anyone else taken internship season as an opportunity to unsubscribe from useless listservs you've been on for years? LOL, I've gotten so annoyed at getting excited about an email only to find it's a listserv that I never use, so I've just been unsubscribing from everything so I can prevent these instances of excitement-followed-by-disappointment-at-receiving-some-email-about-a-happy-hour-special-from-a-chain-restaurant-I-never-go-to-anymore.

Ha, I set up a new email address specifically for internship applications to avoid this! I could not deal if I got a notification every time I got ANY kind of email.
 
Just received the nicest rejection! They told me to "hang in there". Okay I will!! lol
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Official Site Name: University of Michigan Mary A. Rackham Institute
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Child/Adolescent Track
Offered Interview Dates: 12/12, 1/9, 1/16
 
Official Site Name: Nebraska Internship Consortium
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Personal Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Munroe-Meyer Institute Behavioral Pediatrics/Integrated Care Track
Offered Interview Dates: 1/10/20
 
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Official Site Name: Missouri Health Science Psychology Consortium
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): MHS Adult neuropsychology (Truman VA invites will be sent at a different time)
Offered Interview Dates: January 16, 17, 23, 24
 
Official Site Name: St. Cloud VA
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Phone Call
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): None
Offered Interview Dates: 1/3/19, 1/6/19, and 1/13/19 (Morning 8a-12p or Afternoon 12p-4p)
 
Official Site Name: Nebraska Internship Consortium
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Personal Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Munroe-Meyer Institute Behavioral Pediatrics/Integrated Care Track
Offered Interview Dates: 1/10/20
I know multiple people who did internships and post docs there! Well done.
 
Official Site Name: Nebraska Internship Consortium
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Personal Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Munroe-Meyer Institute Behavioral Pediatrics/Integrated Care Track
Offered Interview Dates: 1/10/20
Awesome site--congrats!
 
Official Site Name: Nebraska Internship Consortium
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Personal Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Munroe-Meyer Institute Behavioral Pediatrics/Integrated Care Track
Offered Interview Dates: 1/10/20

Looks like I will there one week ahead of you. Congrats! I knew it would come in for you!
 
Official Site Name: Hines VA
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Personal Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Neuropsych Track
Offered Interview Dates: 1/09/20, 1/10/20, 1/16/20

Official Site Name: Central Texas VHCS
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General Track
Offered Interview Dates: Allowed to interview at any site regardless of application - 12/13 (Temple), 12/17 (Austin), 01/07 (Waco), 01/09 (Skype or Telephone Interview)

Official Site Name: VA Connecticut Healthcare System-West Haven Campus
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Neuropsych Track
Offered Interview Dates: 12/12, 12/19, 01/09
 
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Official Site Name: WCPIP - University of Kansas School of Medicine (KUSM-Wichita)
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Mass Email (specific to KUSM-W Neuro)
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Neuropsychology
Offered Interview Dates: 01/10/20, 01/17/20, 01/24/20
 
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So I feel like the only person who has not heard anything from my 18 sites (good or bad), and I'm starting to freak out! On the positive side, I think Western State Hospital and UCLA Semel Institute are the only sites of mine that have sent anything out (and I applied to the Major Mental Illness track at UCLA so they haven't notified yet), but it's so stressful nonetheless. I just want to know SOMETHING! With that being said, has anyone gotten a rejection notification from Western State Hospital? This is not the most fun process!
 
So I feel like the only person who has not heard anything from my 18 sites (good or bad), and I'm starting to freak out! On the positive side, I think Western State Hospital and UCLA Semel Institute are the only sites of mine that have sent anything out (and I applied to the Major Mental Illness track at UCLA so they haven't notified yet), but it's so stressful nonetheless. I just want to know SOMETHING! With that being said, has anyone gotten a rejection notification from Western State Hospital? This is not the most fun process!

I feel you. I applied to a lot of sites and I have heard back from only 20% (6 sites). I have 1 confirmed interview, one "waitlist"-sounding offer, and 4 rejections. However, one of those rejections is from a site within a consortium where I had applied to two sites, so I am still waiting to hear back from the other site within that consortium.
 
So I feel like the only person who has not heard anything from my 18 sites (good or bad), and I'm starting to freak out! On the positive side, I think Western State Hospital and UCLA Semel Institute are the only sites of mine that have sent anything out (and I applied to the Major Mental Illness track at UCLA so they haven't notified yet), but it's so stressful nonetheless. I just want to know SOMETHING! With that being said, has anyone gotten a rejection notification from Western State Hospital? This is not the most fun process!

I have a friend who hasn't heard anything yet from the 20 sites she applied to. You are not alone!
 
I have a friend who hasn't heard anything yet from the 20 sites she applied to. You are not alone!
That's so comforting actually because walking around campus and hearing everyone talk about their interview sites has me really on edge haha. I'm starting to feel like I messed up the applications somehow!
 
That's so comforting actually because walking around campus and hearing everyone talk about their interview sites has me really on edge haha. I'm starting to feel like I messed up the applications somehow!

It can feel discouraging...I have to admit. Today I received two rejections within the past hour, so my confidence is not as high as it once was. I would love it if my luck could kick in sometime soon. Seeing people receive emails from sites I've applied to and not receiving them myself is concerning. The automatic thoughts kick in. I am trusting in the process, and will wait.
 
That's so comforting actually because walking around campus and hearing everyone talk about their interview sites has me really on edge haha. I'm starting to feel like I messed up the applications somehow!

I'm feeling the same because I've only heard from 2 sites (and they've been rejections), but I'm noticing that most of the sites where I applied were for adults/SMI/community mental health, whereas a large portion of the sites that have already extended interview offers appear to be VAs or other types of sites. Hang in there, we got this!!!!
 
So I feel like the only person who has not heard anything from my 18 sites (good or bad), and I'm starting to freak out! On the positive side, I think Western State Hospital and UCLA Semel Institute are the only sites of mine that have sent anything out (and I applied to the Major Mental Illness track at UCLA so they haven't notified yet), but it's so stressful nonetheless. I just want to know SOMETHING! With that being said, has anyone gotten a rejection notification from Western State Hospital? This is not the most fun process!
I think Western State is holding out because they gave invitation deadlines to RSVP of Dec 2! So they are probably waiting to see if everyone will RSVP, and if they have additional slots might send more out!
 
Official Site Name: Hines VA
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Personal Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Neuropsych Track
Offered Interview Dates: 1/09/20, 1/10/20, 1/16/20

Official Site Name: Central Texas VHCS
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General Track
Offered Interview Dates: Allowed to interview at any site regardless of application - 12/13 (Temple), 12/17 (Austin), 01/07 (Waco), 01/09 (Skype or Telephone Interview)
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For the Central Texas VHCS - which location did you apply to?
 
I just had a live chat with APPI customer service re: a refund for the Morrison app fee, and they said "The manager has submitted all refund requests. It will take a week or so for you to see the money back in your back account but just know we are actively working on it." FYI!
I got a letter saying they will cut me a check because I used Visa prepaid cards (birthday gift) and then I threw them away after I used them on applications...
Which I thought was very nice, because I didn’t think they would take extra steps to refund me!
 
Anyone get a rejection from Western State Hospital yet?

I'm walking that line between "give up hope, you'll save yourself from devastation" and "you haven't gotten the outright rejection yet, maybe you'll still get an invite!"
This is my thought process with this site! From the brochure I felt like such a good fit for this site and now I'm just questioning all of my life choices. I really want to think no news is still good news but I also feel like I don't want to be a filler candidate if their first wave invitees decide not to accept interviews. I have a lot of conflicting emotions going on here!
 
I think Western State is holding out because they gave invitation deadlines to RSVP of Dec 2! So they are probably waiting to see if everyone will RSVP, and if they have additional slots might send more out!

Aw, that’s comforting! Thanks for posting this!

And @JordanaSimone, I am with ya! Also applied to UCLA and WSH and am waiting to hear back. In a month, we’ll have nearly all of our answers! That thought is comforting 🙂
 
This is my thought process with this site! From the brochure I felt like such a good fit for this site and now I'm just questioning all of my life choices. I really want to think no news is still good news but I also feel like I don't want to be a filler candidate if their first wave invitees decide not to accept interviews. I have a lot of conflicting emotions going on here!
WSH has Canadian geese all over the grounds that will attack you when you get too close. Is that really a site you want to go to? (I didn’t apply there but one of my clinical trainings was there!)
 
WSH has Canadian geese all over the grounds that will attack you when you get too close. Is that really a site you want to go to? (I didn’t apply there but one of my clinical trainings was there!)
HAHAH well when that rejection letter comes in I will definitely refer to your comment for immense comfort! Plus I've never lived in a climate that has weather below 50 degrees so I'll just reason that I'm not meant to live in a cold state and it will make it all better!
 
My friend applied to the Central Texas VA, and she said the site she specifically applied to was Austin.
 
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