sincerelyflowers
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For a while, I wanted to go to med school or PA school, but over the past year, I decided it wasn't for me. I didn't do research in undergrad, as the only research that ever interested me was psychology-based, and the more experienced psych students often took those. I did an independent study on bipolar/schizophrenia, which I presented at my school's psych conference and wrote a long paper that is not published (though I could try publishing it?). Currently, I am applying for research assistant/tech jobs for research experience but most are not psych-related in my area, so unsure what to do with that.
I have about 20 credits of psych courses with a 4.0 GPA in those, overall GPA is 3.85 from a highly rated small university. I do have thousands of volunteer hours as well as clinical experience (CNA for 3 years) and I speak 3 languages. But the lack of research will surely hurt my application.
Do I need to do research specifically regarding psychology? Or do I just have to show I can do research?
Any courses do you recommend I take? I read there's a thread listing them but I can't find it for some reason.
I should probably take the Psych GRE given my degree is in biology, not psych, right?
I'm just looking for guidance because this just seems impossible now lol and all I read are horror stories of how much harder clinical psych programs are to get into in comparison to PA/med school programs.
I have about 20 credits of psych courses with a 4.0 GPA in those, overall GPA is 3.85 from a highly rated small university. I do have thousands of volunteer hours as well as clinical experience (CNA for 3 years) and I speak 3 languages. But the lack of research will surely hurt my application.
Do I need to do research specifically regarding psychology? Or do I just have to show I can do research?
Any courses do you recommend I take? I read there's a thread listing them but I can't find it for some reason.
I should probably take the Psych GRE given my degree is in biology, not psych, right?
I'm just looking for guidance because this just seems impossible now lol and all I read are horror stories of how much harder clinical psych programs are to get into in comparison to PA/med school programs.