How difficult is it to get into an IVY league PhD program? For clinical psychology.
How difficult is it to get into an IVY league PhD program?
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Just an Ivy school, or truely "Ivy" for psychology? The Ivy's of psychology (Minnesota, Indiana, Wisconsin, Penn State, UCLA, Berkley, etc.) arent really part of the traditional Ivy league.
In general, Ph.D program admission for clinical psych runs from about about 1%-8% percent. Yes, more peole apply to Yale than to East Tennessee State.
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When I looked at Michigan they had someting like 350 apps and 3 spots. .0085%
I decided to pass.
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I think your math might be a bit off...
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You can see why I never would have made it.
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Just out of curiosity, what are the Ivy's among clinical psych programs? Not that I would base my application decision on that (I'm actually applying to only one of the above because of a great match) but it's still interesting to know.
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This discussion seems odd. The Ivy's are an athletic league and are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Penn, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Cornell. Only half of them even have clinical programs. All are certainly good, but the schools Erg mentioned and many others are all of at least comparable or better quality than these. I'd have attended Wisconsin or Minnesota over any of them in a heartbeat. I think it once again comes back to the point that rankings pretty much don't exist at the grad school level and would be pretty much uninterpretable. There is no such thing is an "Ivy league" of clinical programs - I think Erg was just making the point that those are all top programs as good or better than many of the actual Ivy league schools. I guess the closest thing would be the academy programs (at least for those planning a research career), which will likely be supplanted with PCSAS in the future if it catches on.
This discussion seems odd. The Ivy's are an athletic league and are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Penn, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Cornell. Only half of them even have clinical programs. All are certainly good, but the schools Erg mentioned and many others are all of at least comparable or better quality than these. I'd have attended Wisconsin or Minnesota over any of them in a heartbeat. I think it once again comes back to the point that rankings pretty much don't exist at the grad school level and would be pretty much uninterpretable. There is no such thing is an "Ivy league" of clinical programs - I think Erg was just making the point that those are all top programs as good or better than many of the actual Ivy league schools. I guess the closest thing would be the academy programs (at least for those planning a research career), which will likely be supplanted with PCSAS in the future if it catches on.
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I also think it really depends on what your research interests are... If you're interested in mindfulness/BPD, for example, UWashington will be your "Ivy," but if your interests don't match with any of the faculty, you likely won't give it second look. Same with any other school/program, IMO--it's all so narrow at this level, even though there obviously schools that may attract more applicants or have stronger research emphases than others. Still, if you're interests don't match, they don't match. JMO.
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