how many schools did you apply to?

[chaos]

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yep the title pretty much says it all. and if you want to say where you applied and your area of interest, that would be helpful too.

 

[Mell-Dogg]

I applied to 14 schools

3 ivy leagues that I knew I had little chance of getting in to (but figured, what the hell)

The others were Univ of Iowa, St. Louis Univ, Univ of Kansas, Univ of MO-St. Louis, Bowling Green State (in Ohio), Univ of New Mexico, SUNY-Albany, Univ of Kentucky-Lexington, Wash U (in St. Louis), Univ of Montana, and Arizona State.

I interviewed at 6 schools, still wait-listed at 2, and got offers from 2.

In retrospect, because I'm aiming for an (eventual) academic position at a university psych dept, I now wish I would have applied only to really top-notch programs (and more of them. Some of the programs I applied to do fall under this category in my mind, but some do not.) After getting a great deal of the way through the process by basing my search primarily on fit (which is an approach most here will advocate), I was told by several professors and recently read in several books that, if I want to get into the competitive world of academia, I needed to go to the best program I could get into, regardless of fit. PERIOD. My final choice (Univ of Kansas) reflected a compromise between these two foci.

So, apply to as many schools as you can comfortably afford and make sure that your choice of places reflects not only your interests, but are also conducive to your goals. Good luck!!

 

[Psyclops]

10 Schools, Northwestern, U of Iowa, Duke, Washington U of St. L., Penn State, George Mason, Minnesota, Emory, U. of Kentucky, and Texas A&M. In retrospect George Mason was not good match but I had done alot of work for the app. These are a list of programs that are a who's who of clinical personality. I was offred 3 interviews, two of which conflicted, when I told the second school I wouldn't be able to attend due to the conflict but that i would be happy to come any other time or do a phone interveiw (I had already accepted the other interview), the offer was effectively rescinded. So, two interveiws for real. One acceptance and one waitlist, I accepted the offer about a month and a half ago. Who knows if i would have ever made it off of the waitlist?

I'd be intereste to know others experience with this process.

 

[butterfli73]

I applied to 15. Let's see they were....U Virginia both arts and sciences and Curry Education, Duke, Penn State, Umass Amherst, Emory, Temple, UPenn, San Diego/UCSD joint, Univ Rhode Island, Yale (haha yeah right), UMaryland College Park, UIllinois Chicago, City University of NY, and UDelaware. I had 4 interviews and 2 offers.

There are so many mistakes I made in this process and I was very fortunate it worked out exactly how I hoped, but I definitely would not have applied to some of the schools I did had I known then what I do now about the process and each school.