Admission

The Clinical Psychology Program has been APA approved since 1963 (Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation American Psychological Association, 202-336-5979, http://www.apa.org/ed/accreditation/). Admission to the Program is highly competitive. The clinical faculty is committed to the early development of a mentoring relationship with students. Thus, applications are evaluated on the basis of academic background and potential, and on the fit between the applicant's research interests and the interests and expertise of faculty who are admitting students in a given year. Students are typically admitted into the program as a member of a specific professor's research group, although they are free to change mentors if doing so better meets their evolving goals during graduate school.

Applicants must satisfy admission requirements described in the Emory University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences application checklist. This includes (a) a Statement of Purpose that outlines the applicant's goals in undertaking doctoral study in clinical psychology; (b) competitive scores on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) taken no more than five years prior to application; (c) three letters of recommendation from persons familiar with the applicant's academic and/or research performance; and (d) transcripts and other evidence of academic work from all previous graduate and undergraduate institutions. Applicants whose native language is not English should provide evidence of a minimum score of 550 on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), together with any other evidence of English-language fluency. Highly qualified applicants whose research interests match those of our clinical faculty will be invited to the department for a day of interviews. The typical candidate admitted to our program has GRE scores above 600 and a GPA above 3.5, although unusual candidates who do not meet these criteria are sometimes admitted.

Applicants to the Clinical Program should be aware of the following information:

1. Time to Completion
For students who graduated in the past 7 years, the average is 6.6 years (median 6 years) to completion of degree (for students entering with masters, average is 6 years):
6% finish in less than 5 years, 3% in 5 years, 50% in 6 years, 25% in 7 years, 6% in 8 years, 6% in 10/11 years

The format is EFFECTIVE as of January 1, 2008

2. Costs
tuition and fees for 07-08 - $32,616
all students receive fellowships for 4 years that include tuition remission and a 12 month stipend of $16,500

3. Internships
All twenty-six students who applied for internship over the past 7 years were able to obtain a full-time, funded APA approved/APPIC member internship - of these, 1 (13%) did not match the first year but matched when replying the following year

4. Attrition
Forty-four students have entered the program during the past seven (7) years and 6 (13%) left the program before completing the Ph.D.

5. Licensure
Of the twenty-five students who graduated during the ten year period (1995-2005), 20 (90%) have obtained licensure and 5 (10%) have chosen research jobs and decided not to purse licensure

Please note: The deadline for application to the Clinical Psychology Program is December 1. This is several weeks earlier than the deadline for the Graduate School. We do this so we can review applications early, and give you more time to arrange an interview if invited. Applicants to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Psychology are strongly encouraged to use the online application. The use of the online application allows the department immediate access to your application. In addition use of the online application will allow the applicant to track the status of credentials that have been received in the graduate school. When you apply online, you will not need to submit a paper application. Prospective applicants, who choose not to apply online, may obtain an application in downloadable format by visiting the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences website, www.emory.edu/GSOAS/prospective/. Loose credentials (e.g., transcripts, letters of recommendation) should be mailed to Admissions, Graduate School, Emory University, 200 Candler Library, 550 Asbury Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322. To facilitate your application being read by faculty whose interests most closely match yours, please carefully examine the list of faculty and their research interests, and in a cover letter be certain to rank-order the three faculty members whose work is of most interest to you.

Application for admission should be made as early as possible. Although the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences lists their deadline as Jan. 3, the deadline for applications for Clinical Psychology is December 3, 2007.