I wouldn’t judge an entire group of students’ training and application behavior based on articles you may have read about what happened. This is likely a competitive year for a variety of reasons. It may be more productive to support each other than look for scapegoats for “collateral damage.”
I view externship as an opportunity to spend an additional year in a “practicum” outside of my program and a way to gain additional skills to be a more competitive trainee for the internship. Not getting interviews may be a sign that there are some gaps that need to be filled with additional skills. This is how I am explaining myself why I have only rejections and 0 invitations. But maybe I am wrong 🤔
What does my body size have to do with my interview?
The comment about sleeveless shirts/arms is fatphobic. If a site does not want to work with someone because of the size of their body, then that is likely a toxic site and somewhere you do not want to be.
Do you know if the DC email was a personal or mass email? Waiting to hear from them 🤞🏼
Yup, I'm in a similar position. One rejection, two offers, haven't heard anything from the rest. I am hopeful because other sites I applied to but haven't heard from have not been discussed on here, so perhaps they're still reviewing. Fingers crossed that interview offers are on their way to your inbox soon!
Hi there! I am not sure how to tell.
Thanks for responding! Was it addressed to you by name or did it say something generic like “dear applicant”? Thanks again! And congrats on the invite!
No problem! It said my name. And thank you!
I appreciate your response but I am confused now. Are you saying that the student doesn’t have a right to withdraw from the internship application process if, let’s say, it doesn’t go the way the student predicted? What is considered a “good reason” and why does the student need a permission to go a different direction (i.e., enhance/add skills and prepare better for the next year)?
This is what I posted earlier, but it's from Time2Track not DCTs. I hope it helps https://time2track.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Sample-APPIC-Internship-Interview-Questions.pdf
I think you might be in a different kind of program than many of us are? My externships were always arranged by the program and were our paid GA positions (i.e., what we did to get our stipends and tuition remission instead of being a TA or being on a faculty grant). Students would submit a list of externships they were interested in from the catalog of options with which the program had a financial agreement in the spring and would start in the summer. It was post-internship apps and if someone had the misfortune of not matching they would still be able to be funded in the dept. This is a clinical psych PhD program at a large university. I know things run a little different in NYC, for example.
Did you get an email from Robley Rex that said “We are currently reviewing applications and will be in contact early in December to schedule virtual interviews. In the interim, we want you to “save the date” for our Virtual Open House, which is Friday, December 18th from 9:00 EST to 4:30 EST.”? That’s all I got but I assumed that went to everyone and didn’t mean I was getting an interview necessarily
I made a document where I broke questions out into categories because anxiety 😛 It includes questions from my TD, VA materials I found online, T2T Blog, questions reported on here, and Dr. Chen's Grad Corner Blog. Here ya go! Feel free to share.
Their brochure says applicants invited for interviews will hear back by tomorrow, so I’m anxious to hear anything today and tomorrow. Ugh. This anxiety is killing me.
Thank you for this!
Yes, I got that. I assumed the same thing, haven’t set that date in stone yet until I hear from them.
You're so welcome! Hope it's helpful 🙂 This is how I manage my anxiety...gathering ALL the resources.
Wow'd that you get paid for those, that's awesome 🙂
I mean there were some volunteer ones you could do like 1 day/week on top of other things, but it's pretty typical in university-based clinical PhD programs for students to do paid practica (20 hours/week, stipend not amazing but something). I'm faculty now and our students don't work for free 🙂.
That's amazing! We do *all* of our practica for free and on top of that take classes, do research, and most of us teach 2 sections of an undergraduate course as an assistantship for which we are comically (cries) underpaid. I'm in a counseling psych PhD program and my friend in my uni's clinical psych PhD program is in the same boat. Kudos to your program for valuing the work of your students and not exploiting them. <3 (Sorry for derailing interview thread, this was awesome to hear)
We def don't do that in our program or the ones I've heard of. I didn't even realize it was a thing. Very jelly.
thank you so much!
Very kind of you to share! Thank you!
Thank you so much for this!
Not yet- I know their deadline was a bit later (November 20th) though and looks like last year they sent invites out around December 12!
Wow thank you SO much for sharing!
Not yet!
I received an interview early this morning, but applied to both tracks. His email didn't specify which track I was being interviewed for.
Same here. 3 (basically 4) rejections and only 1 interview invite :/
