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I'm having a hard time judging if the amount of research experience I have is normal for an applicant or more. I know everyone says 2 years experience is the minimum pretty much for admittance to PhDs, but is that all they normally have? Or do they have a few publications or presentations on their CV?
This is my experience so far:
I will have had 2 years experience when I graduate in May as a RA.
I have completed an empirical experiment (albeit in social psych and not clinical as those opportunities do not exist at my school) that I wrote, conducted, etc. and am first author on it with my professor. We plan on submitting to regional and national conferences for poster presentations.
I am currently writing a manuscript (that is somewhat related to clinical as we are dealing with ED symptomatology) with my main research professor that we are submitting to a clinical journal in November so it will appear on my CV.
I've already presented a clinical-related poster at a regional conference as third author.
I will most likely present another poster with my lab at a regional conference.
So is this more than an average applicant has? Also would this amount make up for a mediocre GRE? I got a 1040 on the old one. I'm taking the new one, but for these purposes its probably better to assume I will score about the same (on the new scale of course). And (just in case this will help you formulate your opinions) my GPA should be around a 3.5 when I apply and I will have strong LORs.
Thanks in advance for any responses! :]
This is my experience so far:
I will have had 2 years experience when I graduate in May as a RA.
I have completed an empirical experiment (albeit in social psych and not clinical as those opportunities do not exist at my school) that I wrote, conducted, etc. and am first author on it with my professor. We plan on submitting to regional and national conferences for poster presentations.
I am currently writing a manuscript (that is somewhat related to clinical as we are dealing with ED symptomatology) with my main research professor that we are submitting to a clinical journal in November so it will appear on my CV.
I've already presented a clinical-related poster at a regional conference as third author.
I will most likely present another poster with my lab at a regional conference.
So is this more than an average applicant has? Also would this amount make up for a mediocre GRE? I got a 1040 on the old one. I'm taking the new one, but for these purposes its probably better to assume I will score about the same (on the new scale of course). And (just in case this will help you formulate your opinions) my GPA should be around a 3.5 when I apply and I will have strong LORs.
Thanks in advance for any responses! :]