OFFICIAL 2008 Interview Invite Thread!!!

[xlittlemissalix]

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Hey all,

I, too, am waiting to hear from SDSU/UCSD... what is the consensus? Do you think all invites have been sent or is there still hope for us? ... it's past 5pm in California 🙁

I gave up a few hours ago. Perhaps I gave up early, but I'm pretty sure all invites have been sent.

 

[IWantAPhD]

I freaking out about UCSD! Has anyone heard from them today??

 

[psych2013]

I haven't seen any mention of the Univ of Utah on this website! Did anyone else apply to their clinical PhD program or has anyone heard anything regarding their interview invites?

I spoke with my PI and the University of Utah is interviewing on February 22. Also, I contacted the grad secretary at the University of Oregon (who is awesome) and she says that interview invitations will be extended by Friday at the latest and their interview weekend is February 23-24.

 

[childphdapp]

Man, tough spot. Keep in mind you are on an adventure, and you just completed an interview, which most would kill their close relatives for....and make the most of your time trapped in Chicago!

You're right, I am excited to have successfully completed my first interview!

It's just a tough time to be away from home, but my host was THE BEST! The weather is so miserable right now (hence the flight being canceled) so I'm making the most of my time by prepping for my next interview. I luckily brought a ton of articles for the "plane ride" ... which turned out to be tonight's reading material. I am looking at this as a blessing in the disguise. I have vacation days to use up at work anyways -- time to read!

 

[childphdapp]

I freaking out about UCSD! Has anyone heard from them today??

Does anyone want to volunteer to contact Sandy again?

 

[bettysblue08]

waiting on SDSU/UCSD as well. I applied to work with Nader Amir. Has anyone heard from him? Does anyone know if he is taking on a student shis coming fall?

yay- i successfully stayed away from this website over the weekend - the board was kinda slow anyway...but i am now back in full addiction mode.

thanks,
b

 

[PsychResearchGo]

Has anyone heard from University of Nevada - Reno or University of Wisconsin-Madison yet? I'm asking about the Clinical programs.

 

[IO1986]

Sorry, i didn't mention: this is for clinical ph.d.

I received an email today from the department secretary at Fairleigh Dickinson inviting me to their interview which is 2/16 and 2/17

 

[ducle7]

Got an email for a phone interview earlier today

 

[bettysblue08]

AHH!!!! Now is the time to officially freak out!!

Got an email for a phone interview earlier today

 

[RileyG]

I haven't seen any mention of the Univ of Utah on this website! Did anyone else apply to their clinical PhD program or has anyone heard anything regarding their interview invites?

I've applied there as well, but I still haven't heard anything...

 

[IloveSIKEOLOGY]

I'm a Newby so I apologize if this has been discussed already!

The two schools I haven't head back from yet are:

VA Tech
University of Memphis

Anyone know when interviews are or if interview offers have been extended for these schools?

Thanks🙂

 

[PsychPali]

I have been contacted by my POI at UNC on Thursday and we had a phone interview, he said he would get back to me by Monday. Some people on this thread said the secretary sent out all the invites on Friday.. and I haven't heard back from him.. does this officially mean no interview?🙁

any news from BU (clinical)? Uni of Miami (counseling), and Boston College (counseling), University of Georgia (school)?

 

[PsychDC08]

Does anyone have any advice about how to get to the Fairleigh Dickenson on a weekend? I will be in Philly the day before my interview and don't know NJ all that well! Feel free to PM me if you have any advice.

 

[clinpsychjack]

Received an e-mail invite via the department secretary today to the Open House on February 22nd! It's for Central Michigan University's Clinical Psychology program.

It's my first one...I'm thrilled!

I just received the email invite to Central Michigan University's Open House too. They say it's optional and not required for admission to the program, but it sounds just like an interview. Anyway, I'm going 🙂

 

[JungandHorney]

I have been contacted by my POI at UNC on Thursday and we had a phone interview, he said he would get back to me by Monday. Some people on this thread said the secretary sent out all the invites on Friday.. and I haven't heard back from him.. does this officially mean no interview?🙁

any news from BU (clinical)? Uni of Miami (counseling), and Boston College (counseling), University of Georgia (school)?

I am also waiting to hear back from U Miami for counseling...guess they are one of the slower moving schools. I am going to call them today. In regards to BC Counseling someone posted the following:

Boston College Counseling
Hey all,

Got a phone call for an interview from Boston College (counseling) POI. Interviews are 2/25, 2/26.

 

[PsyNerd]

Just got my rejection from Duke, hooray! No surprise there really, but I did have a bit of hope with one of my LOR's being an alum, oh well.

I called Texas A&M because it's not listed. The grad secretary said interviews have been extended

I also called Univ. of Oklahoma, they haven't extended invites yet.

 

[kyril]

I see Hofstra listed on the first post - does anyone know if the invite was extended via a call from the DCT or Secretary, or from the POI?

Thanks!

 

[Applicant0603]

Hi all,

I called Virginia Tech (clinical) yesterday and they said there was a date set for interview weekend, but the person had no idea if interviews had been extended. Has anyone heard more on this?

Also, I'm waiting to hear from Texas A&M, U of Cincinnati, and Case Western - do we know if they extended all their invitations??

Anxiety may kill me.

What I've received thus far is below:

DePaul-Rejection
U of Missou - St Louis - Rejection
U of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - Rejection

VCU Counseling-Interview
Ohio State - Interview
Kent State - Interview

 

[doctorhopeful]

I see Hofstra listed on the first post - does anyone know if the invite was extended via a call from the DCT or Secretary, or from the POI?

Thanks!

I received a call from the department secretary yesterday...

 

[freudismyfriend]

Hi all,

I called Virginia Tech (clinical) yesterday and they said there was a date set for interview weekend, but the person had no idea if interviews had been extended. Has anyone heard more on this?

Also, I'm waiting to hear from Texas A&M, U of Cincinnati, and Case Western - do we know if they extended all their invitations??

Anxiety may kill me.

What I've received thus far is below:

DePaul-Rejection
U of Missou - St Louis - Rejection
U of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - Rejection

VCU Counseling-Interview
Ohio State - Interview
Kent State - Interview

haha i read that as the interviews were this weekend. thanks for calling--do you know what days the interviews are scheduled for?

 

[Applicant0603]

No, I got mad that she was being unhelpful as to finding out if interviews had been extended, haha...she apparently does not know the stress we are all undergoing!

 

[lakan]

just got an interview invite. still waiting on 8 more...

 

[LosingMyMind]

Do people recommend contacting the POIs? I thought of it earlier but wasn't sure if that seems pushy? But I wouldn't want to miss a great chance either.

I have to say that at this point I don't recommend contacting your POI. In the case of my school, we are working hard on applications and it just gets a little frustrating to have emails coming in everyday asking if we're done yet. I assure you... when a school is done, you'll know. I was in your shoes last year and I definitely understand the frustration and agony of just sitting around waiting and feeling like everything is out of your control, but it is a finite feeling in that it's all in the past after April 15th... If you still haven't heard something by March, that's a different story... but its only the first week of February. While the waiting is *hell*, it still is relatively early in the process for some schools (at least for some labs at mine).

Just my two cents though...

Hang in there everyone!!!

 

[LosingMyMind]

AHH!!!! Now is the time to officially freak out!!

Bettyblue,

Don't worry too much about UW yet. If you applied to adult clinical, each lab does their interviews separately. All the labs are at various stages of the process, so do *not* worry if you haven't heard yet.

 

[RileyG]

Hi all,

I called Virginia Tech (clinical) yesterday and they said there was a date set for interview weekend, but the person had no idea if interviews had been extended. Has anyone heard more on this?

Also, I'm waiting to hear from Texas A&M, U of Cincinnati, and Case Western - do we know if they extended all their invitations??

Anxiety may kill me.

I applied to VA Tech, Texas A&M, and UCincinnati as well. But I'm assuming it's game over for UCincinnati and Texas A&M since they already extended their invites and I haven't heard anything. Here's hoping for good news from VA Tech...

 

[schoolpsych]

I emailed the program director and he told me that interview day is March 3. People who are invited to interview will likely hear by February 15.

 

[ClinChldApp44]

Hi all,

I called Virginia Tech (clinical) yesterday and they said there was a date set for interview weekend, but the person had no idea if interviews had been extended. Has anyone heard more on this?

Also, I'm waiting to hear from Texas A&M, U of Cincinnati, and Case Western - do we know if they extended all their invitations??

Anxiety may kill me.

What I've received thus far is below:

DePaul-Rejection
U of Missou - St Louis - Rejection
U of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - Rejection

VCU Counseling-Interview
Ohio State - Interview
Kent State - Interview

How/when did you receive notification from DePaul (clinical child)? I know they are supposed to come by mail, but I haven't received anything yet. Kind of funny since I am only a mile away from there! 😛

Congrats on getting interviews! I had my first yesterday. Oh and as far as the rejections... I came home to not one, but TWO rejection letters from ASU! I guess they wanted to make sure I got the message!

 

[Applicant0603]

I got the rejection from DePaul yesterday in the mail. It said the exact same thing the weird email said, with a second paragraph affirming my rejection.

Has anyone heard from CaseWestern Clinical?

 

[TwilightEve]

Anxiously awaiting... ><!!

So far I've received interviews from:
Nova Southeastern
Yeshiva University
😀

Has anyone received interviews from Nova Southeastern? Or has interviewed there and know what it's like? It's one of my best-fit schools.

Also praying for Long Island U but I sent my app there kinda close to the deadline so ><!

PS. oh yes, no rejections so far *fingers crossed*

 

[Duckygirl]

All right...
A little venting or I won't make it through the day!

I know I'm not a super competitive applicant, and I am so painfully aware that I don't have the perfect research experience and all that junk, but seriously! Nothing! I still have NO interviews.

It sucks to know you want something so bad and to watch people everyday day get interviews to schools you wanted to attend so badly you could taste them and that everyday your chances get slimmer and slimmer...

Everyday I watch for my stupid little email alert pop up, and I have to say that I've received fewer emails in the last two weeks than I normally would have at any other time of year! And even when I get emails that look like they could be coming from someone who might be a secretary or administrator, they're just junk.

I want to go to school SO badly and I've worked so hard. It is just maddening that it might not happen- again. I am feeling a little jilted. Sorry. I'm done.

 

[schoolpsych]

I emailed the admissions person for the program and she said that the department is just beginning the review process and she is anticipating interviews to be scheduled for February, but does not know when potential candidates will be notified.

*update* Interview invites will be sent out tomorrow (2/6) or the next day (2/7). No word on when the interviews will actually be held, though.

 

[hopinghokie]

I've been reading this forum for a while even though I personally am not applying, my husband is, and weirdly enough I think I'm more nervous than he is.

I just wanted to add that Oklahoma State's counseling psych extended invites by phone for interviews on 2/14,2/15, or 2/22.

So far he's only received two rejections, Ball State couseling psych and Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City counseling. Both of which we're okay with since his research interests weren't well matched there.

Still waiting to hear from
Univ. of Cincinnati -clinical
Virgina Tech - clinical
Univ. of Tenn.Knoxville -counseling
Univ. of Memphis - counseling

Interviews
Univ. of GA - counseling
Penn State - counseling

 

[IWantAPhD]

Sorry all, UCSD/SDSU has extended all of their invites 🙁

 

[JungandHorney]

For those of you who received an invite for VCU Counseling, would you mind posting your POI either on here or send it to me via PM. I would greatly appreciate it. 🙂

 

[PsychResearchGo]

All right...
A little venting or I won't make it through the day!

I know I'm not a super competitive applicant, and I am so painfully aware that I don't have the perfect research experience and all that junk, but seriously! Nothing! I still have NO interviews.

It sucks to know you want something so bad and to watch people everyday day get interviews to schools you wanted to attend so badly you could taste them and that everyday your chances get slimmer and slimmer...

Everyday I watch for my stupid little email alert pop up, and I have to say that I've received fewer emails in the last two weeks than I normally would have at any other time of year! And even when I get emails that look like they could be coming from someone who might be a secretary or administrator, they're just junk.

I want to go to school SO badly and I've worked so hard. It is just maddening that it might not happen- again. I am feeling a little jilted. Sorry. I'm done.

I feel your pain. And this process is really, really difficult for everyone, even if you do have really impressive stats, great research experience, etc. But as someone else stated, it's not over until April 15th. It's still too early to tell what will happen. While it's good to vent, don't lose hope just yet. There have been people who've been accepted at schools in April without an interview. Early February is too soon to predict anything.

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

People have been offered spots after April 15th, at least one or two SDN regulars had this happen to them over the last couple of years, so hang in there!

 

[WaitingKills]

All right...
A little venting or I won't make it through the day!

I know I'm not a super competitive applicant, and I am so painfully aware that I don't have the perfect research experience and all that junk, but seriously! Nothing! I still have NO interviews.

It sucks to know you want something so bad and to watch people everyday day get interviews to schools you wanted to attend so badly you could taste them and that everyday your chances get slimmer and slimmer...

Everyday I watch for my stupid little email alert pop up, and I have to say that I've received fewer emails in the last two weeks than I normally would have at any other time of year! And even when I get emails that look like they could be coming from someone who might be a secretary or administrator, they're just junk.

I want to go to school SO badly and I've worked so hard. It is just maddening that it might not happen- again. I am feeling a little jilted. Sorry. I'm done.

I feel ya kiddo. I'm in the same position, no interviews yet. I just try to keep reminding myself that I only applied to Canadian programs and they are behind the American ones, but now that invites are going out... I'm thinking I'm going to have to go for round three. I'm sure my referees are going to tell me to take a leap if I ask them again.

 

[cai]

I'm thinking I'm going to have to go for round three. I'm sure my referees are going to tell me to take a leap if I ask them again.

I am right there with you. This is terrible. Congrats to everyone who is doing so well, but it's wildly depressing for those of us who are getting few/no interviews. 🙁
Take comfort in knowing you won't be the only person at the pity party!!!!


Also- if one more person tells me that I am GOING to get in, I am going to throw myself off a bridge. Everyone means well, but I just feel like I'll be letting them down if I don't get in.

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

Invites for Nova Southeastern University (Ph.D. & Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology) are going out this week. Interview days are March 3rd and March 10th.

 

[psychgirl23]

Has anyone heard from U of Rhode Island yet??

 

[kestrelcry]

Just wanted to post that Wayne State has sent out their first round of interview invites - I don't know exactly when or by what medium they were sent since I didn't get one - I just called and spoke to the secretary. I did find out that I'm on the waiting list - it was really exciting to hear, not because I think I'll get in, just because it was nice to have that affirmation that I'm not a complete loss this round of applications.

 

[Great Satchmo]

Did anyone apply to:

University of Missouri Kansas City

or (and more importantly)

University of Texas Southwestern


Those are the only 2 schools that I applied to that I have not heard from and are not on the list...but if no one else applied there I can't count on it being on the list when invites are extended.

 

[psyc353]

*update* Interview invites will be sent out tomorrow (2/6) or the next day (2/7). No word on when the interviews will actually be held, though.

Has anyone heard anything re: Clinical at Columbia TC?

I think we've had news from counselling, and now from school psych. Waiting on clinical invitation news!

 

[chinaKat]

I just want to say I'm feeling everybody's pain.

I get all excited when the phone rings, but it always seems to be Barack Obama (a recorded message, but still). And every message in my inbox gets my heart beating faster until I realize that "Plethy McFilbar" is a spammer, not one of my POIs. And the hottest thing that's arrived in my mailbox is the Visa bill. Whoo.

I am normally a VERY PATIENT PERSON but I'm starting to crack...

 

[alwayspsych]

All right...
A little venting or I won't make it through the day!

I know I'm not a super competitive applicant, and I am so painfully aware that I don't have the perfect research experience and all that junk, but seriously! Nothing! I still have NO interviews.

It sucks to know you want something so bad and to watch people everyday day get interviews to schools you wanted to attend so badly you could taste them and that everyday your chances get slimmer and slimmer...

Everyday I watch for my stupid little email alert pop up, and I have to say that I've received fewer emails in the last two weeks than I normally would have at any other time of year! And even when I get emails that look like they could be coming from someone who might be a secretary or administrator, they're just junk.

I want to go to school SO badly and I've worked so hard. It is just maddening that it might not happen- again. I am feeling a little jilted. Sorry. I'm done.

I absolutely sympathize with you. I consider myself to be a strong candidate and still only have gotten one interview (and one rejection).

This might not make you feel better, but I've known of people who have had great research positions at NIH and still had to go on for a few years and get more time/experience under their belt. This field is hard! But once we get in, we're golden. It just takes a lot of determination.

If it takes another year before you get accepted, is it really that big of a deal? The idea of rejection is awful, but honestly I feel that the worst thing for me would be telling everyone I didn't get in anywhere... but otherwise it's not really the end of the world to take another year and work in a job that will strengthen your CV, right?

I apologize if I'm bursting anyone's bubble...but I've decided to prepare myself for the worst (which really isn't sooo bad), and then either way I'll be okay...

...at least after a lot of venting. It's really quite liberating.

 

[lakan]

Does anyone heard anything re: Clinical at Columbia TC?

I think we've had news from counselling, and now from school psych. Waiting on clinical invitation news!

I emailed them today to ask when the interview is and the secretary said that it will be on Feb. 27th. haven't been invited yet though

 

[Thrak]

I get all excited when the phone rings, but it always seems to be Barack Obama (a recorded message, but still). And every message in my inbox gets my heart beating faster until I realize that "Plethy McFilbar" is a spammer, not one of my POIs.

Or he's one of the candidates.

"I'm Plethy McFilbar, and I approved this message."

Sorry... this is a brief respite from the application stress for me. Sunday, I had the Puppy Bowl to distract me, and today (into late tonight) I have Super Tuesday returns. After that, it's back to compulsively checking my email.

 

[lilies05]

Or he's one of the candidates.

"I'm Plethy McFilbar, and I approved this message."

Sorry... this is a brief respite from the application stress for me. Sunday, I had the Puppy Bowl to distract me, and today (into late tonight) I have Super Tuesday returns. After that, it's back to compulsively checking my email.

the puppy bowl is amazing

 

[cai]

the puppy bowl is amazing

I TIVOed it in case I need some cheering up after my applications come back.