Hello all! I’m a former doctoral student in psychology (having since successfully graduated with my PhD!). I was a somewhat non-traditional student, having worked for several years in finance after graduating from college with a business degree before deciding to get a graduate degree in psychology.
Making the life switch into an academic, doctoral career path was a huge change in my life. It took a lot of planning, time, and money for necessary prerequisites to finally be ready to apply to grad schools, and then it took even more of all three! (RIP my checking account.)
I was fortunately very successful in my application process, I think because I completed all my preparations so methodically and wasn’t in a rush trying to graduate from college just to get into grad school. I kept my full-time job throughout the whole process, and I was determined to do as much as I could correctly.
After I was accepted into an amazing doctoral program, I wrote a book to help future students who didn’t have a lot of psychology and PhD-specific application guidance when they were applying, because I definitely did not.
My goal in writing this book is to help all future psych grad students, including those who don’t have a strong graduate resources office at their school, or who haven’t been back to college in decades, or who are not native English speakers or who don’t perform well on standardized tests, (and on and on) to all have a shot at top graduate programs in psychology.
If a student is a little better prepared, a little more competitive as a candidate, and is able to get into a school he or she desperately wanted as a result of reading my website, then I am thrilled.
More recently, I’ve written about how to make money freelance writing while you’re a student (whether in college or graduate school), because I’ve supplemented my income this way for almost a decade.
Please contact me at any time at admin@mentalclarity.net!
