Getting into Grad School Timeline

Junior Year -- Fall

• Start to decide which area of Psychology to specialize in
• Take courses critical to your area
• Contact a professor about research experience in that area
• Start to look at Grad programs

Junior Year -- Spring

• Draft your Biographical Sketch
• Study for GRE's
• Ask 3 professors to write letters of recommendation for you
• Decide which area of Psychology to specialize in
• Develop a list of potential Grad programs

Senior Year -- Fall

• Take GRE's
• Apply to grad programs

Senior Year -- Spring

• Create Self-Serving Attributions for rejection letters
• Praise the programs which have accepted you for their accurate objective assessment of your skills and abilities

Senior Year +1 -- Fall

• Begin Grad school