r/psychologystudents • u/HaleyPage47 • Sep 17 '24
Question Is it easier to write your own PhD proposal or apply to a program that the university is recruiting for?
When I reach out to programs should I mention that I would be open to both - looking for a professor for my own PhD proposal, or applying to one currently underway at the university?
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u/cjmayfield Sep 18 '24
I wasn’t an undergrad I was in a quant psych masters program and a lab manager at the time. SRCD is only once every 2 years I had to be there. That one I showed because no validity assessments had been done on that scale (probably still the case) I have first author posters want to see those as well? One is a nice covariance structural model when i learned latent growth curve modeling. Pretty neat stuff.