How competitive is my grad app (cognitive psych PhD)

juillet
Thu, 10 Aug 2017 05:21:36 +0000

One of my close friends did her graduate work investigating spatial learning in educational settings, particularly STEM (physics). She went to UCSB for her graduate work, so I’d check that program out if you haven’t already.

You are a good candidate, but a pretty ‘average good’ candidate if you know what I mean. In other words, while in general there’s nothing in your application that would definitely keep you out of a program (maybe your GRE scores), you sort of fit the average to slightly above-average profile of a good PhD candidate in psychology. So it’s really all going to come down to fit with your department.

Make sure you write a really good statement of purpose and that your recommendation letters are very strong!

If you can, try to retake the GRE. A 157 on both sections is pretty low - it’s barely above the minimum my graduate program recommended (155 in each section).