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I have been lurking for about a month(ish) now and (more or less) have an idea of the opinions of the users of this forum on why it is better to be paid to go to school versus having to pay to go to school. I am currently applying to several private, unfunded programs (for religious reasons) that supposedly have high APA internship placement rates. Biola/Rosemead School of Psych. boasts 98% student placement to APA sites for past 5 years.
Although this sounds good, I have been learning (partly through this discussion forum) that all students are not necessarily placed into paid internships first try and some have to go to clearinghouse, or wait an additional year to re-apply. Are there any other delays that one would face when applying for internships, and would the "over 5 years stat" be able to hide the fact that it takes (terrible case scenerio) the "average hypoethetical student" several years to get APA placement? When probing further, I was told that a "guess-tament" for last year was that around 17 of the 20 students got APA placement first try. Is this decent placement for a clinical psych. program?
To that end, what is the (approximate) minimum placement percentage you want to hear from a program before writing it off as a poor school choice?
Thank you. 🙂
(Just curious, and yet another grad. school applicant with many of the same anxieties as many others.)
Although this sounds good, I have been learning (partly through this discussion forum) that all students are not necessarily placed into paid internships first try and some have to go to clearinghouse, or wait an additional year to re-apply. Are there any other delays that one would face when applying for internships, and would the "over 5 years stat" be able to hide the fact that it takes (terrible case scenerio) the "average hypoethetical student" several years to get APA placement? When probing further, I was told that a "guess-tament" for last year was that around 17 of the 20 students got APA placement first try. Is this decent placement for a clinical psych. program?
To that end, what is the (approximate) minimum placement percentage you want to hear from a program before writing it off as a poor school choice?
Thank you. 🙂
(Just curious, and yet another grad. school applicant with many of the same anxieties as many others.)
