How did you prepare for the graduate school application process including GREs, essays, and letters of recommendations?
EW: I can’t stress enough how much it helped to start the process early! I spoke with psychologists and students in clinical psychology graduate programs and found out what I needed to do to become one of them. I asked them specific questions about what needed to be done. I looked at books by the American Psychological Association (APA) about how to get into clinical psychology programs. I had a friend apply to programs a year before me and I took note of everything that she did to make herself an outstanding applicant. I am not a fan of the GREs and did take a prep class to help me study for the exams. I studied for the psychology GRE with a Princeton Review guidebook and basically just memorized everything in the book. I make flash cards when I need to memorize, and those flash cards proved invaluable. In the spring, before I applied to schools, I created a spreadsheet with information on every school I was at all interested in and the faculty with whom I would most want to work at e
