CV

- Educational background
o
- Tailor research interests to interests of prof you’re applying to
- Thesis/publications, conference/poster presentations
- Scholarships/academic awards
- Research and lab experience
o I’ve worked in this lab, and developed these skills
o I’ve coded using this scheme, etc.
- Professional experience (put academic experience first)
o Other experiences in customer service (transferable skills)
- Volunteer work/community service, university involvement
- Additional skills, info, languages

- Telling a story through CV, highlight relevant experience

Approaching Supervisors

- Mention what you’re interested in, make it clear you’ve read their work
- I’d like to learn more about your research and your current work (like a pre-interview interview)

Reference

- Can speak to your ability of skills you use in grad school

- Writing
- Speaking/presentation class
- Ability to conduct research
- Doesn’t have to be clinical prof

GRE

- Can submit for free to 4 school schools after u register for GRE (deadline is after writing the
GRE)
- Scores will send automatically, if u did good or bad
- Psych GRE only offered 3 times a year
- Kaplan quant not intensive enough?
- GRE 5 pound book

Personal Statement
 - School name, research interests, ties to research interests changed but skeleton stays the same
- 1/100 chance
- Want to write down long statement and cut it down
- Make it like a story
- Write about your impact on the project and the outcome of it, if anything
- Positive spin on what you like
- What did you learn from it
- No clichés like “I want to help ppl”
- Nothing like I want to be a clinical psychologist
- Specify your interests without being overwhelming
- Get ppl to proofread it
- Get other personal statements from labs, grad students, profs who have accepted students,
York psych office maybe

Applying for Funding

- Make a Canadian Common CV (CCV)

o takes a long time to be
- OGS is school by school
- Tri council is up to 5 schools
- Tailor it to the ppl you’re applying to
- Want to know you’re familiar with research and can write an ethical study

Interview

- “Within your research, I can see myself looking at this and that”

- Tricouncil scholarships ; how many spots

- Conference expectations

- If they offer additional funding; how to ask prof about this