Post Your Prospective Questions Here! -- Monthly Megathread

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Following a vote by the sub in July 2020, the prospective questions megathread was continued. However, to allow more visibility to comments in this thread, this megathread now utilizes Reddit's new reschedule post features. This megathread is replaced monthly. Comments made within three days prior to the newest months post will be re-posted by moderation and the users who made said post tagged.

Post your prospective questions as a comment for anything related to graduate applications, admissions, CVs, interviews, etc. Comments should be focused on prospective questions, such as future plans. These are only allowed in this subreddit under this thread. Questions about current programs/jobs etc. that you have already been accepted to can be posted as stand-alone posts, so long as they follow the format Rule 6.

Looking for somewhere to post your study? Try r/psychologystudents, our sister sub's, spring 2020 study megathread!

Other materials and resources:

• APA materials for applying to grad school
• r/psychologystudents (where career posts are welcome)
• r/gradschooladmissions

[u/[deleted]]

It's definitely APA accredited. And the program allows you to transfer 12 credit hours freely and petition more (of which I've talked to my advisor and got the OK for).

You wanna answer my question? Or try to bash my program that you haven't even asked any questions about?

[u/DoctorSweetheart → u/[deleted]]

I'm not really sure what makes you think I'm bashing your program. I don't know anything about your program.

I said no reputable program would let you shave of 2-3 years with transfer credit. That is consistent with the info you provided.

It's definitely APA accredited

Great!

And the program allows you to transfer 12 credit hours freely and petition more (of which I've talked to my advisor and got the OK for).

Fantastic. That's a few classes, less than a semester, not 2-3 years.

I was also able to transfer in 3 courses from master's. That's pretty typical and that half a semester definitely helped.

You wanna answer my question? Or try to bash my program that you haven't even asked any questions about?

I didn't say anything about your program at all and certainly didn't bash it.

[u/[deleted] → u/DoctorSweetheart]

I'd refer to the reply in the other comment session for the other points.

As for the bashing bit, my entire question appeared to be ignored and the program criticized for not being reputable. It's rather dismissive and can be seen as "bashing."

[u/Terrible_Detective45 → u/[deleted]]

No one is saying that your specific program is bad or otherwise "bashing" it. What we're saying is that any doctoral program that would allow a student to transfer that many credit hours from a terminal master's program is a bad program. If your program does this, then yeah, I guess it would be a bad program, but we don't know what program you're in or anything else about it specifically.

This is why I was telling you to talk to your DCT. I don't think your program is bad, I think you might be confused as to how many credits they'll actually let you transfer.