What Are My Chances For School Psychology

[failureisnotfatal]

Hi. I am currently a junior about to start my senior year of undergrad in September. I'm thinking about trying to get the specialist degree /master's degree in school psychology and become a school psychologist. I haven't seen much about school psychology posted here. I have no idea how competitive some of these programs are. Looking on the school psychology website they have a little tool where you can see how many people applied and how many were accepted. I will post the programs I am thinking of applying to and their acceptance rates according to the tool on the school psychology website. I am a little skeptical of some. Anyway, what are my chances of getting into any of these programs or any other school psychology specialist program for that matter.

1 University of Tennessee - Chattanooga (72% to 77%)
2 UNLV (61% to 72%)
3 LSU - Shreveport (42% to 61%)
4 Baylor University (40% to 60%)
5 Texas State University (50% to 52%)
6 MSPP (48% to 52%)


Major: Psychology (so I have taken the prerequisites in developmental psych, statistics, etc. that a lot of programs require)
GPA: 3.19
GRE: Not taken yet (but I predict that my scores on both section will be between 150 and 159)
Recommendations: One from a professor for experimental psych, maybe one from my psych adviser, and one from a professor from one of my English classes maybe. They will also most probably be from professors.
Experience: For a short time I worked for the boston youth symphony orchestra, which is technically with children, but I don't know if that will really count. I will also probably be doing a 4 month internship in psychology at the start of my senior year and it will most likely be with children.


Do I have any shot or should I just give up now before I waste my time paying for applications?

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[submarine1991]

It always bothers me when a post is left unanswered. I haven't the slightest idea about your chances. Have you looked at older posts in this forum?

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/thr...ool-psychology-working-with-children.1075803/

I will be back to give a more detailed reply later. I hope this will usher in more responses for you

 

[failureisnotfatal]

It always bothers me when a post is left unanswered. I haven't the slightest idea about your chances. Have you looked at older posts in this forum?

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/thr...ool-psychology-working-with-children.1075803/

I will be back to give a more detailed reply later. I hope this will usher in more responses for you

I am thinking that the reason i haven't gotten any responses is just that the information is so hard to find. I have scoured the websites of many schools and haven't been able to find any average gre or gpa information for most of them. All I have found is that you need a minimum 3.0 gpa. They say the minimum, but no average. I don't know what it is about school psychology programs where they won't give out the information. Every other type of program I have looked into has had this information listed somewhere on the website. I would just like to know if I really have a good shot or not of getting into a program. I don't want to just waste my application money for nothing.