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I also applied to neuro but my email said I was invited for the rehab track. Not sure if they are sending each track separately. I was really hoping to get an interview for both!
APPIC Interview Invitation Thread (2021)
Started by psykhe
brainsn’stuff
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Official interview invite: Lexington FMC
A separate email was also received today regarding CVA assessments and HR interview.
A separate email was also received today regarding CVA assessments and HR interview.
Official Site Name: Penn Medicine/Lancaster General Health
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): No track, but neuropsychology focus
Interview Dates Offered: 1/14
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Binge watching the Undoing. Highly recommend
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): No track, but neuropsychology focus
Interview Dates Offered: 1/14
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Binge watching the Undoing. Highly recommend
Me too!!
I lived most of my life in this area. If anyone gets an interview or matches and wants to know more about the area feel free to pm me.
Friends waiting on San Bernardino--should we message them since it's 3 days past when they said they'd be sending responses?
clinpsychintern
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Has anyone run into issues with sites receiving their emails? I have now had two separate sites that had to follow up with me saying I did not respond to their original email, when I did respond right away. It's really frustrating as I have little control over their organization marking my email as spam, if that's what is occurring. Does anyone have insight into any ways to fix/address this?
I was thinking maybe wait for 3 business days after? I'm anxious too but there was a Saturday and Sunday in there and it's still early Mon morning on the West :]
anxioustudent
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Official Site Name: VA Los Angeles
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Email Interview Dates Offered: 1/4, 1/5, 1/11, 1/14
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Email Interview Dates Offered: 1/4, 1/5, 1/11, 1/14
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AverageAnt
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Official Site Name: VA-Los Angeles Ambulatory Care Center
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/2020
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): n/a
Interview Dates Offered: January 4, 5, 11, 14
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Basking in the glory of submitting my first draft of my results/discussion to my chair and sleeping haha
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/2020
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): n/a
Interview Dates Offered: January 4, 5, 11, 14
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Basking in the glory of submitting my first draft of my results/discussion to my chair and sleeping haha
dranxiety3
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Official Site Name: FCI/FDC Tallahassee
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): n/a
Interview Dates Offered: 1/5, 1/7, 1/11, 1/13, 1/20 (two time slots each day)
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): n/a
Interview Dates Offered: 1/5, 1/7, 1/11, 1/13, 1/20 (two time slots each day)
Current intern here checking the forum as my partner applies for internship this year and I just wanted to offer a little reassurance here. I had the same experience last year, being completely honest VA Western Colorado was the last of 19 rejections I received in Phase I, needless to say it stung...a lot. This process plays on everyone's imposter syndrome and highest level of anxiety and I would argue is by no means an accurate assessment of one's abilities as a clinician. I matched in phase II after interviewing at notable VAs that on paper were considerably more competitive and established than VA Western Colorado. I say this not to put down or criticize the training of different sites but rather to highlight the importance of fit. This process works in crazy ways and I encourage you to do your best to let this one go and go in to whatever is next for you and remember this rejection does not define you as a clinician!
clinpsychintern
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Thank you! Yes, at first I thought it was the same VA issue, but the second site that did not receive my email is not a VA site, so now I'm more confused haha.
Sometimes the problems can come from the particular domain of your email address. For example, some emails from Hotmail/Yahoo might go to spam more often than those from Gmail. Wishing you all the best!
neuro_is_the_werd
Doctoral Candidate
Official Site Name: West Los Angeles VA
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Geropsychology
Interview Dates Offered: 1/5, 1/7, 1/12, 1/14
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Geropsychology
Interview Dates Offered: 1/5, 1/7, 1/12, 1/14
This happened to me with two separate sites as well. I apologized for the mishap and when I responded I asked them to confirm that they received my email given my previous email did not go through.
I also included in my email that if I did not hear back from them the same day that I would follow up via phone call.
I am not aware of a way for us to fix this on our end.
Thank you so much for your support. It was hard because I really thought that I was a great match for this internship program. Unfortunately, the selection committee did not feel the same way.
neuro_trainee
Full Member
This happened to me (with two separate VA sites). I think I may be blocked by a spam filter (I also tried via my personal gmail, school email, etc). My TD suggested that I call sites to let them know what is happening and so far they have all been very understanding and have followed up with me via phone.
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anxioustudent
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Official Site Name: Cleveland VA
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): email
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): email
anxioustudent
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No it was pretty general
I'm waiting on mount sinai and jackson health neuropsych tracks
anxiousdepressedpsychstud
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I am waiting for rusk.
not yet!
Official Site Name: West LA VA
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/2020
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General track
Interview Dates Offered: 1/5, 1/7, 1/12, 1/14
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: tennis & a lot of reality tv
Official Site Name: USC Counseling and Mental Health Services
Date Invitation Received: 12/4
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): generalist (university counseling)
Interview Dates Offered: TBD they will send a follow-up email from SignUpGenius
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/2020
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General track
Interview Dates Offered: 1/5, 1/7, 1/12, 1/14
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: tennis & a lot of reality tv
Official Site Name: USC Counseling and Mental Health Services
Date Invitation Received: 12/4
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): generalist (university counseling)
Interview Dates Offered: TBD they will send a follow-up email from SignUpGenius
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Official Site Name: Pilgrim Psychiatric Center
Date Invitation Received: 12/7
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General
Interview Dates Offered: 12/10 - 1/22 (set up with the DCT)
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Finishing a paper
Date Invitation Received: 12/7
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General
Interview Dates Offered: 12/10 - 1/22 (set up with the DCT)
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Finishing a paper
clinpsychintern
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Great - I will plan to continue calling. Thank you!
clinpsychintern
Full Member
Thank you - that's basically what I've been doing as well. An unfortunate hurdle I wasn't expecting in this process!
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True true. I was considering Match policies (listed below--italics from original email) in part because it will be helpful to hear back from them as I am scheduling other interviews/open houses!
"Applicants should contact a site to inquire about their interview status only if they haven't heard from that site by the morning of the day after its published interview notification date. Applicants should never make assumptions about their interview status with a site until they have received the notification from that site. In the event that you don't receive an interview notification in a timely manner, then (1) check your "junk mail" or "spam" folder to see if it ended up there, and (2) contact the site the day after that site's interview notification date to inquire about your status."
anxioustudent
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Official Site Name: Robley Rex VA
Date Invitation Received: 12/7
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): email
Date Invitation Received: 12/7
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): email
Official Site Name: Jackson
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/2020
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Neuro track
Interview Dates Offered: specific for track- they will reach out later. Group interviews in January on Mondays.
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: practicum and peloton
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/2020
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Neuro track
Interview Dates Offered: specific for track- they will reach out later. Group interviews in January on Mondays.
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: practicum and peloton
psych101010
New Member
Sorry to hear that! Can I ask what day the email was dated? I haven't heard anything from them either way.
ACpsych2020
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Rejection from Saint John's Child & Family Development Center
psyched0ut
Full Member
Official Site Name: Yale Child Study Center
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/2020
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): phone call
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Child & Trauma
Interview Dates Offered: January 7, 8, 11
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/2020
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): phone call
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Child & Trauma
Interview Dates Offered: January 7, 8, 11
I’m waiting on mt Sinai (237611- because they have so many programs and they all get confused lol)
anxioustudent
Full Member
Same thing happened here. I have to say your comment made me laugh and made the rejection sting a little less!
anxioustudent
Full Member
Mine came today - went to junk too (and I haven’t had any emails go to junk throughout this whole process)
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Official Site Name: UMass Memorial Medical Center/Worcester State Hospital
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/20
Method of Invitation: E-mail
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): didn't specify but I applied for the forensic track
Interview Dates Offered: "The date we are currently scheduling is Jan. 7"
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Definitely not sane but I've been distracting myself by playing Pandemic with my husband, watching Hamilton over and over with my toddler and preschooler, and my cohort-mates have been life savers.
I was sure this would be a rejection after my cohort-mate got the offer on Friday but I'm so thrilled! Hang in there even for the sites others have heard from. It's not over until you get that rejection!
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/20
Method of Invitation: E-mail
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): didn't specify but I applied for the forensic track
Interview Dates Offered: "The date we are currently scheduling is Jan. 7"
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Definitely not sane but I've been distracting myself by playing Pandemic with my husband, watching Hamilton over and over with my toddler and preschooler, and my cohort-mates have been life savers.
I was sure this would be a rejection after my cohort-mate got the offer on Friday but I'm so thrilled! Hang in there even for the sites others have heard from. It's not over until you get that rejection!
2 Question:
1. Do we expect a rejection email from all the internship sites we have applied to?
2. If we don't hear back from the site when others have, is it safe to assume we have been rejected, or are there some programs with a rolling admissions style?
1. Do we expect a rejection email from all the internship sites we have applied to?
2. If we don't hear back from the site when others have, is it safe to assume we have been rejected, or are there some programs with a rolling admissions style?
tunaNlimones99
Full Member
Ditto 😆
Depends. If the internship site sends out a mass email about interview dates, I think it is safe to assume that a rejection will be forthcoming. However, sites that send out personal emails or phone calls could still result in an interview invitation since it might take more time for them to contact everyone. I have seen some sites that operate with a "rolling admissions" approach. They may have candidates on a wait-list in case applicants decline their interview invitations.
roadtointernship419
Full Member
Congrats! was this a personal email or a mass email? Im hoping to maybe get one 🙂
It appeared to be mass for neuro as it was not personalized.
It was addressed to me (i.e., had my name in it) but it was pretty generic and was the same wording as the email sent to my cohort-mate on Friday. Looks like they are scheduling in waves and it sounds like they may still have additional interview dates as they are only scheduling for one right now. I wouldn't count this one out quite yet! Fingers crossed for you 🤞
It came today, 12/7. Mass email.
Any updates from FCC Butner?
I'm sorry to hear that! I'm waiting on this one...was it a mass email?
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