I am a 23 year old psychology junior who is a student at Morehead State University. have an overall GPA of 3.2 and a psychology GPA of 3.0 (An A in developmental, B in intro, B in social, and C in behavior analysis [Class was poorly organized and nobody did well on exams, essay assignments however were easy]) and wondering if I have any chance at all getting into grad school for I/O Psychology, or other branches of psychology for grad school if I change my mind. I don't have any research currently. I am only on campus two/three a days a week, as part of my courses are there and others online. To echo previous statements, I am unsure what my academic future holds. I enjoy psychology, a lot, but if it isn't going to take me too far I might switch, as I enjoy biology, too. My drawback is poor math abilities. The middle and high schools I went to were poor at teaching math and I had to start with 091 developmental math when I started college. My only Cs aside from the one above come from math 091 and 93, and the psych class mentioned above. The rest are As and Bs. I also made the Dean's list in fall 2014. What do you all think of situation?
Feeling uncertain about future
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I am unclear what you wavy to do or are even interested in.
Lack of research experience will indeed hold you back for clinical or any other academic and/or doctoral areas in this field.
Lack of research experience will indeed hold you back for clinical or any other academic and/or doctoral areas in this field.
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How do you know you want to go into I/O psych (a research degree) if you have no experience in research at all or I/O psych?
I have researched the field online and talked to a friend who is going into it. She graduated this year and is taking a year off.
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I'd try to get an RA position for a professor on campus to get an idea of the research involved in a graduate psychology program. You can gain more insight into what you might be interested in (something besides I/O might catch your eye), gain the required experience, and then think about doing a master's program. A master's can be a good way to make up for a lackluster undergrad GPA. You'd also gain more insight/experience and know for sure whether or not you're cut out for extended studies in the field of psychology.
Sound advice. I tend to worry too much about things. Another question, I assume my psychology GPA is seen as more important than my overall.
Definitely get some research experience and start working on getting that GPA up. Both major and overall GPA matter and a 3.5 is usually the minimum to shoot for. Under that is not an absolute bar to acceptance, but it means you need something else to "make up for it" and right now it sounds like you have a mediocre GPA and not much else going for you as an applicant - at least that you've shared.
Weak math will be a big problem for I/O. Its arguably one of the most math intensive at the stronger programs (at least at the doctoral level). Expect heavy numbers crunching...its nothing at all like undergrad.
Weak math will be a big problem for I/O. Its arguably one of the most math intensive at the stronger programs (at least at the doctoral level). Expect heavy numbers crunching...its nothing at all like undergrad.
