psychstudent112
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Hi everyone! The title says it all. For reference, I have a 3.95 GPA at a competitive university. I tend to do well on standardized tests as well. As far as clinical experience goes, I've both volunteered at a substance abuse clinic and shadowed a forensic psychologist at a psychiatric hospital. As far as research experience goes, I spend about 20 hours a week (sometimes more) working in two labs. I run experiments for an animal behavior lab that studies the acute effects of nicotine on rats' anxiety responses, and I clean skin conductance data for a stress/emotion lab that studies the relationship between executive control and depression. I spent last summer collecting data for the first of those two labs. I have some independent research under my belt as well, and I've presented it at an undergraduate research conference.
I know that proper conference presentations and publications are ideals to strive for, but I don't know how likely I'll be to get those kinds of opportunities (my department is not great at getting undergraduates published).
Right now, I have plans to conduct another independent research project this semester, and I have begun doing some background work for an honors thesis.
Is there anything else I could be doing right now to make myself maximally attractive to clinical psychology PhD programs? And as things stand, do I have a reasonably good chance at getting admitted to a program?
Thanks!
I know that proper conference presentations and publications are ideals to strive for, but I don't know how likely I'll be to get those kinds of opportunities (my department is not great at getting undergraduates published).
Right now, I have plans to conduct another independent research project this semester, and I have begun doing some background work for an honors thesis.
Is there anything else I could be doing right now to make myself maximally attractive to clinical psychology PhD programs? And as things stand, do I have a reasonably good chance at getting admitted to a program?
Thanks!