APPIC Interview Invitation Thread (2021)

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SOSpsyd said:
I second this and add: it should be ILLEGAL to send any emails unrelated to internship WHATSOEVER during this entire process. I turned off email notifications on my phone because I could feel my blood pressure skyrocket every time I got an email, and most of them were random emails from my program/department. 😫
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RIGHT? I got mad mad after getting a mass email from a faculty member this morning. Like, if you don't got the goods, stay outta my dms!
 
Official Site Name: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date Invitation Received: 12/9/2020
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): personal e-mail
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Hillside Family of Agencies & Rochester Regional Health Child
Interview Dates Offered: doodle poll: 1/4, 1/8, & 1/11
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Trying to get through the end of the semester by not refreshing my e-mail every 5 minutes 😵
 
FBOP Allenwood folx - has anyone tried calling the HR department as instructed on the OF-5 form to schedule an interview? I just did and the individual's voicemail box said he will not be back in the office until February. Did anyone else experience this? I'm not sure what to do now
 
inpursuitphdpsych said:
FBOP Allenwood folx - has anyone tried calling the HR department as instructed on the OF-5 form to schedule an interview? I just did and the individual's voicemail box said he will not be back in the office until February. Did anyone else experience this? I'm not sure what to do now
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Ah - I called again and he answered and said he wasn't sure why his voicemail says that, so all good!
 
mamux said:
“Dear Applicants,
Thank you so much for your interest in our program. We look forward to meeting you.” And the rejection letter attached 🙈 Now singing to myself: “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger...” 😂
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Oh goodness. I had a site say "Dear Name that isn't my name," (my name was not even close to that name). They then proceeded to send me the correct name in a new rejection form a few hours later. I got the point the first time, there's no need to reject me twice in one day.
 
mamux said:
“Dear Applicants,
Thank you so much for your interest in our program. We look forward to meeting you.” And the rejection letter attached 🙈 Now singing to myself: “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger...” 😂
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Yikes. If it were me I would probably double-check that they meant to send me that attachment...(Unless the rest of the email made it clear it was a rejection also.) Sorry - I can only imagine the heart leap/stomach drop combo there 😕
 
inpursuitphdpsych said:
FBOP Allenwood folx - has anyone tried calling the HR department as instructed on the OF-5 form to schedule an interview? I just did and the individual's voicemail box said he will not be back in the office until February. Did anyone else experience this? I'm not sure what to do now
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I got this too and was like wwwwwaaah 😭. Left a VM, emailed them and the TD.
 
Official Site Name: Virginia Commonwealth University UCS
Date Invitation Received: 12/9 @1:49pm EST
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): n/a
Interview Dates Offered: 1/5-1/12 (AM & PM slots)
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: takeout food rn.
 
SOSpsyd said:
I second this and add: it should be ILLEGAL to send any emails unrelated to internship WHATSOEVER during this entire process. I turned off email notifications on my phone because I could feel my blood pressure skyrocket every time I got an email, and most of them were random emails from my program/department. 😫
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I get so irrationally angry at irrelevant emails my from school 🤣
 
FBOP peeps - has anyone received the OF-5 form from the Fort Worth or Tallahassee locations?
 
beardedshrink said:
I wonder if applicants in the past used to compulsively check their physical mailbox like we all do with emails now 🤔
I can just imagine walking outside every 5-minutes to check to see if the mail came for the day
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Hahaha, I can imagine myself moving my whole work desk to my front porch and just camp there for 4-weeks straight 😉
 
Kelly75 said:
I'm assuming rejection but I haven't heard anything either way.
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I was assuming the same thing but wasn't sure why they wouldn't have sent out the rejections already but oh well!
 
inpursuitphdpsych said:
Ah - I called again and he answered and said he wasn't sure why his voicemail says that, so all good!
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The TD at Allenwood told me we don't need to contact HR and that the form just says that because it's a generic form for all positions. She said we should just wait for someone to call us to schedule the CVA. Did you hear something different from HR?
 
Official Site Name: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date Invitation Received: 12/9/2020
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): personal e-mail (last name written in subject line)
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Hillside Family of Agencies, Coordinated Care Services Inc., & Rochester Regional Health Child, and RIT Young Adult/Adult Psychiatry/Telepsych/Homeless
Interview Dates Offered: 1/4, 1/8, & 1/11
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: cooking incredibly unhealthy food!
 
forensicpsych20 said:
The TD at Allenwood told me we don't need to contact HR and that the form just says that because it's a generic form for all positions. She said we should just wait for someone to call us to schedule the CVA. Did you hear something different from HR?
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I just got a call today from a psychologist with the BOP. Essentially just introducing herself as the main point of contact for scheduling the CVA. She asked if I already received the OF-5 form (which I did and returned) so, I think they're all operating on somewhat separate schedules. We didn't actually schedule the CVA yet because she doesn't have all the info they need (on their end) but was mostly calling just to introduce herself :] I'm sure you'll all get similar calls soon!
 
REJECTION: Long Island Jewish Medical Center/Zucker Clinical Neuropsychology Track - @ 1:12PM PST was nooooooot expecting this one so it stung a bit

Also right afterwards received a rejection from California Pacific Medical Center even though I applied to the neuropsychology track which they took out of the match process and notified us in the beginning of November. So a wonderful addition to the already two subsequent rejections I received within a 15 minute timeframe 😢
 
babkelneuro said:
REJECTION: Long Island Jewish Medical Center/Zucker Clinical Neuropsychology Track - @ 1:12PM PST was nooooooot expecting this one so it stung a bit

Also right afterwards received a rejection from California Pacific Medical Center even though I applied to the neuropsychology track which they took out of the match process and notified us in the beginning of November. So a wonderful addition to the already two subsequent rejections I received within a 15 minute timeframe 😢
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Ugh I can't believe CPMC took away the neuropsych track AFTER applications were due. I also got the official rejections just now from the child tracks I applied to 🙁
 
intern21 said:
A rant: I honestly hate this process. I have been wrong a lot, received invites from very competitive sites while being rejected from less competitive ones. I am starting to freak out and already thinking I will need to go to phase 2. I just wish they would not make us spiral like this. I’m very disappointed and upset today.
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This is a super hard process! I imagine that you are a very good fit for the competitive sites you got invited to, and they saw that. I'm in a similar position. I think there is just a lot of noise in the process. But it is nerve-wracking. I decided it is a rollercoaster and I just have to surrender to the ride. Can't get off mid-ride! Here's wishing you some serenity.
 
sponge123 said:
Official Site Name: VA Northern California Health Care System-East Bay in Martinez, California
Date Invitation Received: 12/8
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): I applied to general track; email did not mention track though
Interview Dates Offered: 1/5, 1/7, 1/11, 1/13, 1/19
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: slow jogs and wannabe runs 😛
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Congrats! I'm waiting to hear from them. Seems like a great site. Good luck with the interview!
 
babkelneuro said:
REJECTION: Long Island Jewish Medical Center/Zucker Clinical Neuropsychology Track - @ 1:12PM PST was nooooooot expecting this one so it stung a bit

Also right afterwards received a rejection from California Pacific Medical Center even though I applied to the neuropsychology track which they took out of the match process and notified us in the beginning of November. So a wonderful addition to the already two subsequent rejections I received within a 15 minute timeframe 😢
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I’m sorry about that. I received a rejection from Penn State and LIJ today and I was also not expecting it. Wishing you the best through this process!
 
Just a reminder: If a program decides you are not a good fit for their internship program, it doesn’t generalize to being not a good psychologist, not a good future postdoc applicant, or not a not a good intern for more “competitive” sites.

Sometimes we read great applications and say “we have nothing to teach this student; They already have great training in our areas of emphasis. This wouldn’t be a growth site for them.”
 
Does anyone know how common it is that sites send out interview offers all at once but don't send rejections out for a while after that?
 
Action_Potential said:
Just a reminder: If a program decides you are not a good fit for their internship program, it doesn’t generalize to being not a good psychologist, not a good future postdoc applicant, or not a not a good intern for more “competitive” sites.

Sometimes we read great applications and say “we have nothing to teach this student; They already have great training in our areas of emphasis. This wouldn’t be a growth site for them.”
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I think that the most discouraging part of this process is less about the match and more about the fact that we are all told we are ready for internship, we all have enough hours, great letters of recommendation, high GPAs etc. And we all need an internship to graduate. But additionally we all have to pay out of pocket to have a chance at being able to meet this requirement on top of tuition. And then, although we are told we are ready, and although we put forth all of the money and effort into applications, and even although we may have interviews we attended, this graduation requirement is still left up to an algorithm that can leave us high and dry and forced to pay another, in my case, $60,000 of tuition just to do the process all over again the next year.

I can understand this type of process for fellowships when you already have your degree because it more closely resembles the job market, but am confused by the extent of competition and ambiguity at this point in the graduate process when, for the most part, training is still pretty generalist and so being "a good fit" is incredibly subjective and often political.
 
almostphdiva said:
Official Site Name: Cambridge Health Alliance
Date Invitation Received: 12/09/2020
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass eqmail, Snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): population health/adult
Interview Dates Offered: 1/6 or 1/8
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I’m curious is anyone has heard from the adult/child outpatient track at CHA yet?
 
SAR27 said:
Does anyone know how common it is that sites send out interview offers all at once but don't send rejections out for a while after that?
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I can't speak to how many sites do and do not do this, but I know of several sites across levels of 'competitiveness' that almost always send invites in November and wait until near 12/15 to send rejections. Many of these have not sent waves but, instead, sent invites on one particular day.
 
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