Contacting Faculty - MA GEN PSY Program

[JohnMalcom]

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I am applying for the GEN PSY Program in Fall 2010, and was wondering if contacting the faculty is helpful for MA applicants. Any suggestions are welcome.

 

[Krisss17]

I am applying for the GEN PSY Program in Fall 2010, and was wondering if contacting the faculty is helpful for MA applicants. Any suggestions are welcome.

Why would you contact them? The only reason I would contact them would be if I had a specific question.

 

[JohnMalcom]

If there research inetersts meet mine.

 

[blindblonde]

Sure, I would (and did) contact faculty. I just received my MA from a general psych master's program, and it does help. In my program, you aren't committed to work with certain faculty until you start the program (in the first week or so), which gives you time to meet with the faculty and discuss their research in more depth. As far as I know, my program tries to accept a balance of students that represents the different areas to see how they generally match faculty. For example, they won't accept 10/12 students just for cognitive when there are only a couple of cognitive faculty in the program. Faculty can also give you some helpful information (e.g. if they think they are taking students or if they are going on sabbatical) which may be helpful for your application decision.

Bottom line, contacting faculty isn't as critical as applying to specific advisors in Ph.D programs, but it doesn't hurt to do it either.

Hope that helps!

 

[Krisss17]

If there research inetersts meet mine.

Well, that speaks specific to me 🙂. Have you also considered checking the different schools websites? A lot of time they will have the areas that their faculties are working on. This might narrow down to who you might want to talk to further. I found that the more background and research you do on your own, the better the response you might get from the principals. You'll stick in the mind of the principals if you decide to apply to their school.

 

[psyed4clinPhD]

For the most part, I did not but wish I had. Some faculty were about to leave the university and others weren't studying what was posted on their bio on the website 🙁 So, if I were applying again, I would contact them!