The Clinical Training Program

Student Admissions, Outcomes, and Other Data

Applicant Selection Process

Applicants to the Clinical Psychology Program are selected for an interview and admission through the following process:

1. Individual faculty members review applications and consider the following areas:
   • Grade point average (typically 3.50 or higher as an undergraduate) and an undergraduate major in psychology.
   • GRE scores (typically Verbal plus Quantitative of 1200 or higher).
   • Research experience (typically one to two years post-undergraduate degree).
   • Letters of recommendation.
   • Fit with a faculty member's research interest.
   • Writing sample (a sample of a research project or paper on which you were the primary author).
   Although faculty members consider all five areas, it is important to note that there is not a minimum cut-off in any one area.
2. Typically three applicants are presented to the Clinical Faculty by each faculty member interested in accepting a student. The Clinical Faculty and student representatives vote on whether each applicant should be invited for an interview.
3. Applicants selected for an interview are invited to campus in February to interview. (Although on-campus interviews are strongly encouraged, telephone interviews can occur.)
4. Applicants interview for a specific faculty member's laboratory. Each applicant meets with two to three faculty members and two to three graduate students, all of whom evaluate the applicant on areas such as interest in the program, fit with the program, match with the faculty member's research program, maturity of research ideas, and readiness for clinical work.
5. Following interview day, evaluations of applicants are summarized and presented at a Clinical Psychology Faculty meeting. Each faculty member presents a list of applicants who are and are not acceptable and rank orders the acceptable list. The Clinical Faculty and student representatives vote on the acceptability of each applicant and on the rank ordering of applicants proposed by each faculty member. Availability of funding is also taken into consideration.
6. An email typically is sent by the coordinator of admissions to each person who interviewed indicating whether they are accepted, wait listed, or not being considered further. The faculty member who proposed the applicant typically calls accepted and wait-listed applicants and discusses their status with them. Accepted applicants are encouraged to inform the program of their decision as soon as possible and are told that a decision has to be made by April 15th.

The tables below summarize applicants' data, GPA and GRE scores of those admitted, time to degree completion for students admitted, internship data, attrition from the program, and licensure data.

Applicants' Data

Admitted Students' GPA and GRE Scores

Time to Completion for Students Entering the Program with a Bachelor's Degree

Time to Completion for Students Entering the Program with Advanced Standing

Program Costs

Internship Data - Table 1

Internship Placements - Table 2

Attrition

Licensure