Where do I stand? Clinical Psychology PhD

I’d say you are a relatively strong applicant, depending a lot on the quality of your research experiences and your fit with the departments you’ve selected. Lots of applicants do have post-college experience on top of great undergrad stats, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t stand a good chance.

You’ve also got a good spread of schools across a spectrum - some competitive programs and some good, solid mid-ranked programs. That’s good for clinical psychology, especially if your goal is actual clinical work.

Most individual psychology labs only take a 1-3 students a year. If you think about it, a medium-sized department may have 10-15 faculty members in it. Even if half of them are taking students, and they on average take 2, that’s 10-15 students - which is far larger than most cohorts.

Do note that the programs at UNC Chapel Hill (#1), Duke, Yale, UVA, Vanderbilt, UT Austin, and BU are all clinical science programs. You can read more about that at the Academy for Psychological Clinical Science (https://www.acadpsychclinicalscience.org/mission.html), but the short version is they primarily focus on training researchers and academics who will contribute to clinical knowledge. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go there - they’ll still train you to be a clinician - but do note that the focus will be very science-oriented, and your peers may primarily want to be academics.