Its been beaten to death at this point but yeah, no reason to not seek a funded balanaced PhD program as they usually run the exact same way the top PsyDs do.
Good luck!Get John Norcross' Insider's Guide.
Maybe it's old hat to us, but yet people still ask about Psy.Ds on the regular.
The Prof. School websites continue to promulgate the misconception that the Ph.D. is an academic degree and that PsyDs either get more clinical training (demonstrably false) or start clinical service provision earlier (probably false and likely unethical). At least people are still asking "us"- it's got to be confusing being an applicant with all the misinformation out there.
As a youngin getting ready to apply I've had a bunch of grad students in my lab (funded, balanced PhD) ask me why I'm not applying to PsyD. It worries me that I've needed to tell the people already in a decent program why most PsyD degrees are poor ideas ... of course they may have also been testing me.
Unless your terminally online (like most of us here) or have had some kind of significant contact with PsyD programs, most PhD students don't know much about them. They probably just hear the marketing and think it's true because they don't have any experience to the contrary.
