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So, I wanted to do the whole present my stat's and get perspective. I want to first lay out my stats, summarize where I've been/what I've done and then briefly summarize some challenges that I anticipate. I would appreciate feedback.
I am applying to clinical and counseling psychology programs in the upcoming year. In some fashions, I feel ready to apply for counseling programs, but I feel for more competitive programs and clinical programs that I would need to get more research experience and deal with some issues I have in my track record.
Education and work: So, I got a BA in anthropology from Brown University (2008). I then got my mph (2010) from Brown University. During my mph time, my focus was on child development and I worked in a children's research hospital for a year and a half as an RA. I wrote my thesis from this experience.
After I graduated, I worked as an RA at Dana Farber. After a year, I decided that I wanted to work with people and so I transitioned to tutoring/mentoring/teaching at risk youth in a variety of settings. I worked with kids with OCD, ADD, ODD and all sorts of things that a good mental health system would not have let me encounter in such a fashion.
My stat's:
Undergrad GPA: 3.8, Master's GPA: 3.5. (Brown doesn't do +/-, so my grades look more skewed). My grades are mostly steady, but I had two C's in my entire record. One was in a methods course which dealt with formatting and surveys and a lot of things a self important professor didn't convey as well. The other was during a tough time that I had in undergrad. I also have taken several advanced stat's (biostat's) courses and did decently B's, although I could've and should've gotten A's.
GRE (took old one several years ago, will retake this summer):
V-660
Q-760
A-5.5
Research:
I worked one and a half years at a children's psych research center as an RA. I worked one year as an RA II in social epi. at Dana Farber. I got familiar with process and procedures. I also volunteered for a year at a Free Clinic and helped a med student with the data part of her project. I have my name as third author on a paper about an intervention for medical education in a free clinic.
The catch is that my experiences didn't go so optimally. I initially struggled with organization and structuring my papers and thoughts. So, at the children's hospital, I just did grunt work after flubbing up on a lit. review. At Dana Farber, I got overwhelmed by the environment and the complexity of the topics my boss was expecting me to review. He expected me to work on a lot of things that a phd grad would do. I performed suboptimally there, left on an amiable note that it wasn't a good fit.
So, the catch is I'm good at conceptualizing and diving into research, but I haven't exactly demonstrated that in my environments. I have a good letter from my master's thesis advisor, but don't per se have other research references to rely on.
My question is whether my stat's balance out or whether it's going to be impossible to have sufficient research experience in time for a fall application. Insight would be appreciated.
Thanks
-WE
I am applying to clinical and counseling psychology programs in the upcoming year. In some fashions, I feel ready to apply for counseling programs, but I feel for more competitive programs and clinical programs that I would need to get more research experience and deal with some issues I have in my track record.
Education and work: So, I got a BA in anthropology from Brown University (2008). I then got my mph (2010) from Brown University. During my mph time, my focus was on child development and I worked in a children's research hospital for a year and a half as an RA. I wrote my thesis from this experience.
After I graduated, I worked as an RA at Dana Farber. After a year, I decided that I wanted to work with people and so I transitioned to tutoring/mentoring/teaching at risk youth in a variety of settings. I worked with kids with OCD, ADD, ODD and all sorts of things that a good mental health system would not have let me encounter in such a fashion.
My stat's:
Undergrad GPA: 3.8, Master's GPA: 3.5. (Brown doesn't do +/-, so my grades look more skewed). My grades are mostly steady, but I had two C's in my entire record. One was in a methods course which dealt with formatting and surveys and a lot of things a self important professor didn't convey as well. The other was during a tough time that I had in undergrad. I also have taken several advanced stat's (biostat's) courses and did decently B's, although I could've and should've gotten A's.
GRE (took old one several years ago, will retake this summer):
V-660
Q-760
A-5.5
Research:
I worked one and a half years at a children's psych research center as an RA. I worked one year as an RA II in social epi. at Dana Farber. I got familiar with process and procedures. I also volunteered for a year at a Free Clinic and helped a med student with the data part of her project. I have my name as third author on a paper about an intervention for medical education in a free clinic.
The catch is that my experiences didn't go so optimally. I initially struggled with organization and structuring my papers and thoughts. So, at the children's hospital, I just did grunt work after flubbing up on a lit. review. At Dana Farber, I got overwhelmed by the environment and the complexity of the topics my boss was expecting me to review. He expected me to work on a lot of things that a phd grad would do. I performed suboptimally there, left on an amiable note that it wasn't a good fit.
So, the catch is I'm good at conceptualizing and diving into research, but I haven't exactly demonstrated that in my environments. I have a good letter from my master's thesis advisor, but don't per se have other research references to rely on.
My question is whether my stat's balance out or whether it's going to be impossible to have sufficient research experience in time for a fall application. Insight would be appreciated.
Thanks
-WE
