Drexel Priority Applicant E-mail

[neurogirl23]

Did anyone get this e-mail? I have already applied and confirmed that my application is complete...but the link just sends you to an application. Any thoughts?

Dear xxxx,
You have been chosen as a priority applicant by Drexel University - congratulations!
I personally invite you to apply online to one of our graduate programs with your Drexel Priority Application. This streamlined application is available only to select students and has been personalized to save you time. Plus, as a priority applicant, your fee to apply has been waived.
A Drexel graduate education can make all the difference in your future. I encourage you to take a look at your application and get started today.


Joan McDonald
Senior Vice President for Enrollment Management
Drexel University

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[zoistaffy]

I just got this exact email today. My guess it is a non accreditated expensive program that got our emails from taking the psychology GRE--- I took the psych GRE in October, and I've received a lot of junk mail from psychology programs since then.

Did you take the psychology gre recently? Or did you take the GRE and indicate you would like your scores sent to interested schools or wanted to receive information from other schools? I think they ask that somewhere when you sign up.

Did anyone get this e-mail? I have already applied and confirmed that my application is complete...but the link just sends you to an application. Any thoughts?

Dear xxxx,
You have been chosen as a priority applicant by Drexel University - congratulations!
I personally invite you to apply online to one of our graduate programs with your Drexel Priority Application. This streamlined application is available only to select students and has been personalized to save you time. Plus, as a priority applicant, your fee to apply has been waived.
A Drexel graduate education can make all the difference in your future. I encourage you to take a look at your application and get started today.


Joan McDonald
Senior Vice President for Enrollment Management
Drexel University

 

[neurogirl23]

Hi,

Perhaps that is it - I did take the Psych GREs recently. Drexel Clinical Psych program is an accredited APA program - and I had already applied this year...that's why I was curious. Thanks

 

[kppsych]

I also received that email and had applied to the Drexel program, so it freaked me out too. Glad to know I wasn't the only one, but I had been hoping it was about an interview.

 

[Reticent]

I also recieved one of these today- except rather than having taken the psych gre (not my field) I took the biology exam.

I did do extremely well on the bio exam though. I wonder how high Drexel's cutoff for this was (as in, did they send this to everyone with a subject gre score or rather to people they are giving actual priority to).

How did you all do on your subject exams?

Edit- wait, nevermind. I just found a link to "invite a friend to appy with the Drexel Priority Application".

God, I feel like I was just trolled by a grad school.

 

[SomedayClinPhD]

so drexel isn't a school i really considered, but when i got this email I figured "hey what the hell, its free"....turns out that it won't let you apply for the PhD in Clinical Psych for Fall 2011-----since their deadline was Dec. 1. Bummed me out, turns out there is a POI there I could have had a pretty good research match with.

 

[DrGero]

Is Drexel a funded program? I was actually looking at their website out of curiousity and it looks actually somewhat respectable. Go figure - I remember driving through Sacramento and seeing their campus located right by the freeway, adjacent to a bank - it looked like any other University of Phoenix campus and I wrote it off in my head.

 

[Born2rumble1st]

Is Drexel a funded program? I was actually looking at their website out of curiousity and it looks actually somewhat respectable. Go figure - I remember driving through Sacramento and seeing their campus located right by the freeway, adjacent to a bank - it looked like any other University of Phoenix campus and I wrote it off in my head.

You might not be thinking of the right university, because Drexel is located in Philadelphia (and I'm pretty sure they don't have a satellite campus in Sacramento). It's one of best schools in the nation for forensic clinical psychology and it gets over 400 applications a year. And, yes, it's funded.

 

[Psychology 76]

I applied to their applied brain and cognitive sciences program. But yeah, I think the email you guys recieved was your standard school search email from your GRE scores. It's probably for some lesser known programs affiliated with Drexel.

But yeah, Drexel is one of the best schools in the country for clinical psychology (i'm not sure if the applied brain and cognitive sciences is as good 😛) and overall it has a great academic reputation.

 

[WJPSYCH]

You might not be thinking of the right university, because Drexel is located in Philadelphia (and I'm pretty sure they don't have a satellite campus in Sacramento). It's one of best schools in the nation for forensic clinical psychology and it gets over 400 applications a year. And, yes, it's funded.

Actually Drexel (Main Campus Philadelphia, PA) does have a satellite campus--a center for graduate studies in Sacramento, CA http://sacramento.drexel.edu/

The psych programs are still at the main campus.

 

[DrGero]

You might not be thinking of the right university, because Drexel is located in Philadelphia (and I'm pretty sure they don't have a satellite campus in Sacramento). It's one of best schools in the nation for forensic clinical psychology and it gets over 400 applications a year. And, yes, it's funded.

http://sacramento.drexel.edu/programs/

For the record, the Sacramento campus has no psychology or counselling programs....

 

[Salience]

God, I feel like I was just trolled by a grad school.

Perhaps, because Drexel's clinical program has no application fee either way. It has a campus in Sacramento, but only for a couple of graduate programs, not including Psychology.

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

An odd choice for Drexel to advertise that way considering they are at least regionally known and definitely have some quality training programs. I guess traditional universities are trying to recruit for their other programs (that often fund or at least supplement their doctoral programs).