<p>I am undergrad at UChicago and am thinking about applying to grad school for psychology. I was wondering what the average GRE score and GPA is for a Ph.D program at UChicago, Yale, and Boston University. Also, I know Yale only accepts a handful of students, but if you know anything about BU or UChicago that would be great.</p>
<p>Check out the SDN psychology forum and the Gradcafe psychology forum. There’s lots of good info there and links to other resources to start you on the process of learning about applying to grad school in psychology. Depending on the subfield of interest - clinical, experimental, social etc. competitiveness of admissions varies, though overall it’s a competetive field - if you’re thinking of Clinical Psychology the majority of programs only accept a handful of applicants a year, but don’t let that discourage you … the process is not solely numbers driven.</p>
<p>You didn’t make clear what kind of psychology degree you want. Boston U offers PhDs in clinical; brain, behavior, and cognition; and developmental science. Chicago offers them in cognition, developmental, neuroscience, and social, and Yale offers them in clinical, cognitive, social/personality, developmental, and neuroscience.</p>
<p>If the programs themselves do not publish average GRE scores and GPA on their websites, then that information is probably not widely available. None of them say, but I think it’s safe to assume that at Chicago and Yale the averages are probably around a 3.5-3.6 GPA and a ~310 on the GRE (155-160 each section). At Boston U the averages are probably a bit lower.</p>
<p>All PhD programs, in general, only accept a handful of students every year. Generally an incoming cohort is only 5-20 students in a given PhD program with a small number per area. Yale, for example, admits 15 students but they have five subfields. Clinical programs are always very competitive, with many applicants (sometimes over 200, and for the most competitive programs 300+).</p>
<p>And what do you mean by “know anything”? I know the general facts on the department’s website; that’s probably not what you are looking for. Could you be more specific about what it is you want to know? It would also help if you specified in what area you plan to study - the advice for a clinical applicant is going to be very different than for a cognitive applicant.</p>