If I get a book published...

[chaos]

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I've got an editor potentially interested in a book I wrote...The problem is, it's a middle-grade children's book and not remotely related to psychology. Heh, is there any way I can use this to help weasel into grad school, or should I just not mention it? (where would I even mention it, anyway, in my statement of purpose?)

Also, can you tell I'm obsessed if I might get a book published and all I'm thinking about is, can I use this to get into grad school?

 

[JatPenn]

Congrats! It probably won't have any effect on grad school admissions, as you say, I'm not sure where you'd even mention it in your SOP. You can always mention it during interviews when you get asked about non-psych related pursuits, and it won't look bad at all.

 

[PublicHealth]

I've got an editor potentially interested in a book I wrote...The problem is, it's a middle-grade children's book and not remotely related to psychology. Heh, is there any way I can use this to help weasel into grad school, or should I just not mention it? (where would I even mention it, anyway, in my statement of purpose?)

Also, can you tell I'm obsessed if I might get a book published and all I'm thinking about is, can I use this to get into grad school?

Psychology creeps its way into EVERYTHING. Be creative!

 

[50960]

If it has a "message" it could be considered psychology related....... 👍

 

[Sanman]

If you want to work with children, then you potentially work it in that way.

 

[chaos]

Heh well it's fantasy with no kind of psychological or moral undertones. basically amusing and useless. And I don't want to work with children. In fact I don't even like children very much, lol. So you're all probably right that it's quite useless to me. Oh well. At least I get money, assuming they do decide to publish it.

 

[Psyclops]

Well, I can't imagine these things hurting you. I would put it on my CV if I had published a children's book. Maybe under a interests section or soemthing.

 

[PsychoEm]

i was the sole author, and only non-phd, of a chapter in a psych book and i didnt get in anywhere (and i had the grades, scores, etc that should have made me a strong candidate)

 

[JatPenn]

i was the sole author, and only non-phd, of a chapter in a psych book and i didnt get in anywhere (and i had the grades, scores, etc that should have made me a strong candidate)

What sort of "psych book" was it?

 

[Psyclops]

i was the sole author, and only non-phd, of a chapter in a psych book and i didnt get in anywhere (and i had the grades, scores, etc that should have made me a strong candidate)

Statements like these always amaze me. I also find them slightly anoying for some reason. Maybe because it suggests that the system I was lucky enough to get accepted under is some how bogus. But I think mainly, it's that the poster sounds so entitled when they do it, like they should have gotten in. Anyone else?

 

[JatPenn]

In general, books or book chapters are not looked upon as favorably by admissions committees due to the fact that they are often not peer-reviewed.

 

[PsychoEm]

What sort of "psych book" was it?

a clinical psychology text book

and psyclops, i didnt mean to sound arrogant; just merely telling the OP that this sort of publication didnt help me

 

[Psyclops]

My bad.

 

[chaos]

Statements like these always amaze me. I also find them slightly anoying for some reason. Maybe because it suggests that the system I was lucky enough to get accepted under is some how bogus. But I think mainly, it's that the poster sounds so entitled when they do it, like they should have gotten in. Anyone else?

It doesn't annoy me so much as freak me out about getting into grad school. I mean even more than I'm already freaked out. Which is a lot.


Thanks for the input, various people. I'm working on a second fiction book about a kid with bipolar disorder...at least that one will be more relevent, though I doubt I'll finish it before I apply.

 

[JatPenn]

a clinical psychology text book

and psyclops, i didnt mean to sound arrogant; just merely telling the OP that this sort of publication didnt help me

Sorry about being OT, but you mean to tell me that you SOLE AUTHORED a chapter in an (I'm asuming) abnormal psych text and didn't find a match? Are you interested in researching something that just isn't done by many faculty?

 

[PsychoEm]

Sorry about being OT, but you mean to tell me that you SOLE AUTHORED a chapter in an (I'm asuming) abnormal psych text and didn't find a match? Are you interested in researching something that just isn't done by many faculty?

yes, that is correct. i applied to 9, interviewed at 2, waitlisted at 2, rejected at 2.
and my research interest is gender differences in adolescent psychopathology (except tailored specifically to the individual faculty at each school).

 

[SaraL124]

Statements like these always amaze me. I also find them slightly anoying for some reason. Maybe because it suggests that the system I was lucky enough to get accepted under is some how bogus. But I think mainly, it's that the poster sounds so entitled when they do it, like they should have gotten in. Anyone else?

Yeah, but for every one of this type of post, there is also someone like myself, with average GPA and GREs, no publications at all, who got accepted to 5 schools. So, go figure?