APPIC Interview Invitation Thread (2021)

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DietCokeJunkie said:
I think there’s a lot of variability in this. For example, my program (Clinical PhD) primarily produces adult general track clinicians. On average students have received 4-5 interviews and we have a 100% match rate. So my program advises us to aim for 4-5 interviews to “ensure a match.” With that said, there are certain internship tracks that usually have 1-2 positions per site, compared to the 5+ positions for more general tracks. So for those tracks, we were advised to aim for 7-8 interviews (e.g. health psych, neuropsych).

I’m sure program type also influences this, but I don’t know the stats on that. This is all strictly anecdotal.
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missplum said:
I think someone posted the APPIC stats on this earlier in the thread if you want to hunt that down, but if I remember the data correctly, 7 - 8 interviews gives you a solid chance of matching (in the 90ish percentage). If someone saved the link, maybe they could repost it on the thread 😛
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‘Twas me, your friendly neighborhood koala 🐨 I had cited this research publication by Callahan et al. (2014, pg. 76) where they calculated a cut-off of about 6.92 interview offers that separated matched from unmatched applicants. From their data, they also found that applicants will have a 99% chance of matching if they obtained 12 or more interview offers.
 
Doctor Koala said:
‘Twas me, your friendly neighborhood koala 🐨 I had cited this research publication by Callahan et al. (2014, pg. 76) where they calculated a cut-off of about 6.92 interview offers that separated matched from unmatched applicants. From their data, they also found that applicants will have a 99% chance of matching if they obtained 12 or more interview offers.
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I thought 7-8 interviews was almost a guarantee for matching?
 
student9295 said:
I thought 7-8 interviews was almost a guarantee for matching?
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Nothing is a guarantee. The stats are very good, but ultimately it comes down to how students rank sites, how sites rank students, how many spots a site has, and whether a student is a better fit over others who were ranked (which relates to how sites rank students). Moreover, it’s common for students not to rank every site or track after interviews and getting a different impression than what is in a brochure.
 
kittenlady said:
Some internship sites actually prefer students from professional schools because of the clinical training focus/high number of clinical hours. If you get an interview, they think your training is good enough that they would take you on as an intern. I personally wouldn’t address why you went to a professional school unless they ask ...or unless they have maybe never interviewed a professional school student before.
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This isn't true on average. So far, when the stats are released, PhD students have more clinical hours, on average, than PsyD students.
 
Doctor Koala said:
‘Twas me, your friendly neighborhood koala 🐨 I had cited this research publication by Callahan et al. (2014, pg. 76) where they calculated a cut-off of about 6.92 interview offers that separated matched from unmatched applicants. From their data, they also found that applicants will have a 99% chance of matching if they obtained 12 or more interview offers.
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While this has been haunting me, I have also been curious about (and looked but not found) more recent updates. I see in the match stats from previous years they provide stats on how many interviews applicants receive but not the correlation with matching. I believe the 2014 report was most relevant to the matching process when there was still an extreme imbalance between # of sites and applicants so I wonder how the more balanced situation that may have shifted the "magic" interview number (or not).
 
missplum said:
I think someone posted the APPIC stats on this earlier in the thread if you want to hunt that down, but if I remember the data correctly, 7 - 8 interviews gives you a solid chance of matching (in the 90ish percentage). If someone saved the link, maybe they could repost it on the thread 😛
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HPB2015 said:
While this has been haunting me, I have also been curious about (and looked but not found) more recent updates. I see in the match stats from previous years they provide stats on how many interviews applicants receive but not the correlation with matching. I believe the 2014 report was most relevant to the matching process when there was still an extreme imbalance between # of sites and applicants so I wonder how the more balanced situation that may have shifted the "magic" interview number (or not).
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I was also curious about whether this finding would hold up to the potentially unique COVID impacts. I feel like from my casual observation on here and with peers that some types of sites (hospitals, bigger name institutions, and integrated care) are getting a huge number of apps. Feels like if that's the setting you want you may need to apply to more/get more than 6 interviews/have some backup settings to be safe. It would be interesting to see this study done again for this year with correlations broken down by site type or some sort of a name recognition index.

As someone who is in a program in an area with no real options for hospital-based practicum (though I managed to have inpatient and integrated care placements), the process of trying to get into doing a hospital based internship has been disheartening due to what feels like an especially competitive year.
 
Psyducky said:
I was also curious about whether this finding would hold up to the potentially unique COVID impacts. I feel like from my casual observation on here and with peers that some types of sites (hospitals, bigger name institutions, and integrated care) are getting a huge number of apps. Feels like if that's the setting you want you may need to apply to more/get more than 6 interviews/have some backup settings to be safe. It would be interesting to see this study done again for this year with correlations broken down by site type or some sort of a name recognition index.

As someone who is in a program in an area with no real options for hospital-based practicum (though I managed to have inpatient and integrated care placements), the process of trying to get into doing a hospital based internship has been disheartening due to what feels like an especially competitive year.
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I'd like to chime in about this situation (not having a lot of options to get experience in a given setting). As a TD I understand that there may be limited options for trainees to get the experiences they want. What makes a difference for me when I review an application is how the person communicates their interest in and passion for working with the population at our site. If a letter just says, "I think I would be a great asset to your program because I am excellent at all these skills," that does nothing to convey genuine interest in our site and the people we serve. What I appreciate seeing is "I haven't been able to do X, though it is my long-term career goal. These are the A, B and C ways in which I have prepared myself for work at your site/with the people you serve, and these 1, 2, 3 reasons are why I will do well there." Or something to that effect. Don't count yourself out. But do convey your interest and passion.

Good luck! I know this is hard.
 
Official Site Name: Central Arkansas VA
Date Invitation Received: 11/30/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General
Interview Dates Offered: Jan 11-15
If & How you're staying sane: enjoying the fall weather
 
VintageRed said:
Official Site Name: Milwaukee VA Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 11/30/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General
Interview Dates Offered: 12/9, 12/17, 1/7, 1/12
If & How you're staying sane: Walks with my pup and netflix
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Neurpsych track too. Mass email and same interview dates.
 
Wishing us all good luck this week with interviews coming in (and hoping we have positive ways of coping with inevitable rejections). I know we are all very stressed this week and one of my favorite things to do is stress-baking. If you would be interested in receiving a small package of baked goods to decrease your stress a bit, feel free to message me. I have been very COVID-safe but this is obviously up to your comfort level. I can only spend a certain amount on shipping, so I can't promise to send to everyone who requests, but I will do my best. No pressure either way, just wanted to find ways to spread some cheer if possible 🙂
 
ccpsych16 said:
Official Site Name: Central Arkansas VA
Date Invitation Received: 11/30/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General
Interview Dates Offered: Jan 11-15
If & How you're staying sane: enjoying the fall weather
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Congrats on the interview!! Seemed like a great program. Just got my rejection from them 😕 Ahh this process is hard.
 
Official Site Name: Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center Psychology Internship Program in Philadelphia
Date Invitation Received: 11/30/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General
Interview Dates Offered: December 14th (Monday), December 16th (Wednesday), December 17th (Thursday), January 4th (Monday) and January 6th (Wednesday). Interviews will be held either in the morning (8:00am-1pm) or the afternoon (12pm-5:00pm) on each of those dates.
If & How you're staying sane: N/A
 
good_juju said:
Official Site Name: Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center Psychology Internship Program in Philadelphia
Date Invitation Received: 11/30/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General
Interview Dates Offered: December 14th (Monday), December 16th (Wednesday), December 17th (Thursday), January 4th (Monday) and January 6th (Wednesday). Interviews will be held either in the morning (8:00am-1pm) or the afternoon (12pm-5:00pm) on each of those dates.
If & How you're staying sane: N/A
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Congrats! Looks like an awesome site. I debated applying but ultimately other sites won out for me.
 
ready4internship said:
Wishing us all good luck this week with interviews coming in (and hoping we have positive ways of coping with inevitable rejections). I know we are all very stressed this week and one of my favorite things to do is stress-baking. If you would be interested in receiving a small package of baked goods to decrease your stress a bit, feel free to message me. I have been very COVID-safe but this is obviously up to your comfort level. I can only spend a certain amount on shipping, so I can't promise to send to everyone who requests, but I will do my best. No pressure either way, just wanted to find ways to spread some cheer if possible 🙂
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thats so sweet! Good luck this week! hope you get some good news!
 
pedspsych4life said:
Has anyone received an invite from Johns Hopkins All Childrens? I know they sent rejections out last week but has anyone heard of invites yet?
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Still waiting to hear from them...A friend of mine interviewed there last year and told me they called her instead of emailing.
 
ready4internship said:
Wishing us all good luck this week with interviews coming in (and hoping we have positive ways of coping with inevitable rejections). I know we are all very stressed this week and one of my favorite things to do is stress-baking. If you would be interested in receiving a small package of baked goods to decrease your stress a bit, feel free to message me. I have been very COVID-safe but this is obviously up to your comfort level. I can only spend a certain amount on shipping, so I can't promise to send to everyone who requests, but I will do my best. No pressure either way, just wanted to find ways to spread some cheer if possible 🙂
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This is the kindest gesture 😭
 
WisNeuro said:
This isn't true on average. So far, when the stats are released, PhD students have more clinical hours, on average, than PsyD students.
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To add to this, when I was applying two years ago, I saw exactly one site that said they did not want applicants from clinical science programs (and it wasn't a great site in general) and one that stated that PsyDs were "preferred" over "acceptable" PhDs (this was before they changed the descriptions on the APPIC program).
 
relationalpsych said:
Official Site Name: University of Virginia Counseling Center
Date Invitation Received: 11/30/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Phone Call
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): N/A
Interview Dates Offered: 1/4, 1/6, 1/8
If & How you're staying sane: Baking Holiday Cookies!!
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Congrats!
I haven’t heard anything from them yet
 
Official Site Name: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Date Invitation Received: 11/06/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): clincal child
Interview Dates Offered: 12/4, 12/19, 1/4, 1/14
(In honor of years past) Just joined this thread so I'm hoping that helps, lots of music and baking

Rejection mass email from UT Health Science Center of Houston on 11/16th

Waiting patiently to hear from the rest!
 
dcpsychdoc said:
I'd like to chime in about this situation (not having a lot of options to get experience in a given setting). As a TD I understand that there may be limited options for trainees to get the experiences they want. What makes a difference for me when I review an application is how the person communicates their interest in and passion for working with the population at our site. If a letter just says, "I think I would be a great asset to your program because I am excellent at all these skills," that does nothing to convey genuine interest in our site and the people we serve. What I appreciate seeing is "I haven't been able to do X, though it is my long-term career goal. These are the A, B and C ways in which I have prepared myself for work at your site/with the people you serve, and these 1, 2, 3 reasons are why I will do well there." Or something to that effect. Don't count yourself out. But do convey your interest and passion.

Good luck! I know this is hard.
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I greatly appreciate this insight! That's similar to the approach I took so it gives me some hope I could land at a hospital! :bow:
 
Something I've been reflecting on over the weekend is how challenging this year has been for so many of us. With practicum closures, family and friends getting sick, and most of the country being shut down for periods of time, the fact that we are here and applying to internship is AMAZING. We should have compassion for our colleagues, training sites, and most importantly, ourselves. We've made it this far during a global pandemic! We will also make it to the end. 💜 😎
 
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