Hi all, I'm half way through the application process so it might be too late to be asking this, but WAMC?
Undergrad GPA: 3.97 (from pretty good liberal arts school), majored in psych, minor in english and business
Graduate GPA: Currently 3.92 (graduate in May)
this graduate degree is in a field completely unrelated to psych, btw, so probably won't help me with admission at all
GREs:
Q 660
V 710
AW 5.0
Psych GRE- taking November 12
I usually do pretty well on standardized tests on paper, so I think I'll do decently at least
Research:
Worked in two different labs in undergrad, one a social psych lab and one cognitive. But the time periods overlapped and so basically this was just my senior year. In the social psych lab I was lucky enough to be working on a project that later got pretty big. I had a poster presentation as second author on said project.
Independent Research:
I completed an independent project with the head of the psych dept/cognitive professor. It was related to the research he was already doing but I did the whole IRB approval, design, running subjects, analysis and paper, for 3 credits. We didn't have an honors thesis option, but I imagine this is kind of like that?
I also worked internationally this summer for a NGO on a qualitative research project analyzing quality of psychological services provided for children post-natural disaster (conducted focus groups, interviews, etc).
Recommendations: From 2 profs whose labs I've worked in, undergrad advisor who knows me very well, and one prof from grad school. I haven't seen the recs but they got me in to grad school the first time around and they all profess to be giving me good recs, so I'm hopeful
Clinical experience:
Worked with my population of interest (post-trauma) many times over the past few years in volunteer positions, both in the US and in Latin America, but nothing "official"
I know I'm going to need to tie all of my application together in my SoP given that I've been a little bit all over the map with grad school in another area and my research interests not lining up with the lab experience in social/cognitive.
Schools I'm applying to:
Temple
U Del
U Conn
Fordham
St. John's
GWU
Teachers College- counseling
SUNY Albany
CUNY
SUNY Binghamton
UMass-Boston
NYU Steinhardt
Fairleigh Dickinson
So my question is, is this a wide enough variety of schools (I've tried to throw in some "safety" and some "reach") for me? I have to stay on the east coast in a city because my fiance needs to be able to keep his job, given that he will be the sole bread-winner for oh, the next 7 years or so
I picked these schools based on match with a POI who is working in the area of my research interests. What do you all think? Thanks in advance!!