09 Mar 2021

Long Island University, CW Post

Clinical Psychology, PsyD (F21)

Wait listed via E-mail on 09 Mar 2021

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This is what I just received: "If you are receiving this email, a final decision has not yet been made on your application to the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program for the Fall 2021 cohort. We had over 400 applications this year for just 25 spots in the 2021 cohort. In order to ensure that we do not admit more students than we have spots for, the program has modified the way in which we time interviews, moving to a rolling interview process (wherein we begin admitting some applicants while still interviewing more). This process should in no way suggest to applicants who receive interviews later in the process that their application is not up to standard for doctoral consideration. If you receive an interview - we believe your application demonstrates your potential to begin and complete doctoral work. We simply control the interview process in order to maintain a smaller class size - as our capacity (in terms of resources and faculty supervisors/advisors) is limited to our 9 core faculty members. In order to maintain a high level of rigor in our program, we must maintain these smaller cohort sizes. Our goal is to build a fall 2021 cohort whose personal, professional, and academic experiences up to this point are diverse, whose readiness for doctoral work is demonstrated, and whose commitment to the field is clear. For those who, in the end, do not receive an interview offer, this could be the result of a few factors: (1) the applicant pool is larger than usual this year and the class has been filled (2) your application suggests that you are not ready for doctoral-level work (3) you application suggests that you may need more clinical experiences to be ready to begin this kind of program. In any case, if you do not receive an interview, we will be glad to offer you feedback on your application after the entire 2021 application process is over. We may be able to suggest other options for the fall to you at that time - in some cases that may be another program at LIU in the mental health field, in others it may be more clinical or graduate-level academic experiences. If you have any questions, please let me know. If you have already decided on other plans for the fall, you can let me know that as well. If you would like us to move your application to another mental health field program at LIU (Clinical Art Therapy & Counseling, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, ABA, or Social Work), you can let me know that. There is no need to express continued interest in the PsyD program in response to this email -- if we do not hear from you otherwise, we will assume you would like us to keep your application in the 2021 pool for PsyD. Be well."

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