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A Frantic Psychology Student

Oct 17, 2013 21:53

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apa, help, clinical psychology, psychology, phd

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aubs4 October 18 2013, 02:41:54 UTC

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scote2 October 18 2013, 03:19:14 UTC

Hello, thanks for the fast reply! That is actually extremely relieving to hear that I might have a chance. I just did out the math and my GRE scores on the new scale come out to a 1180 on the old scale...... eek. is that too low? As in, "I'm not going to get in unless I retake my GRE's" too low ( ... )

tisiphone October 18 2013, 07:57:34 UTC

That's really pretty low on the GRE front. My understanding is that clinical psychology programs are incredibly competitive, and you may find it's just not good enough. I'd seriously suggest retaking. Given your area of interest, have you considered an MSW program rather than the clinical psych program? They are often better for people that want to work in multicultural areas, and there's a lot more of them.

aubs4 October 18 2013, 13:16:03 UTC

Unfortunately I don't know of any specific programs that have a "multicultural program." I am a psychopathology researcher, and I can say that many of the other professors in my department research some sort of cultural aspect of disorders or interpersonal relationships ( ... )

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roseofjuly November 4 2013, 04:49:14 UTC

I doubt that your GRE scores were the reason you weren't admitted, though, as 1380 is way over the general 1200 cut off.

scote2 October 27 2013, 22:17:24 UTC

Thank you everyone for your help! All greatly appreciated. I'm set to take my GRE's again in about two weeks.... sigh. But you have to do what you have to do I suppose. I appreciate all of your inputs.

I guess now I have a little bit of an unrelated question about SoP's and personal statements. Namely, what's the difference? This could be an extremely stupid question, but bear with me. One of my recommendation letter writers has asked me to send her my statement of purpose, but all of my programs ask for personal statements, and one asks for an additional 'statement of goals'. I tried doing a google search on this and didn't really find anything that answered my question- I've basically thus far been following prompts that the programs give and taking it from there. What is my letter writer looking for.. my personal statement? Or something completely different? I don't want to send her something completely unrelated to what she wants.

Thanks again for all of your advice, everyone. :)

roseofjuly November 4 2013, 04:50:47 UTC

The terms are often used interchangeably. Sometimes (but not always), a statement of purpose is more about your professional goals for graduate school and a personal statement is more about your background and personal motivations. But generally speaking, I think the two terms are used interchangeably to refer to "the statement that you write to go along with your grad school applications."

Basically, your letter writer just wants a draft or version of what you are writing to your programs.