Graduate School Admission Results

Canadian applicant, did my undergrad at York. GPA for first 2 years of undergrad was significantly lower than the latter years, contributing to a lower/mediocre cumulative GPA. Took all research methods/statistics courses offered to undergrads. Also recently did well in a university advanced stat/programming class (taken as a non-degree student in prep for grad school). Have 4 years post-bac full-time research coordinator experience (working in psychiatric research hospitals), managing large studies. Have 8 academic conference poster presentations (many were 1st author), currently have 2 publications under review (one 1st author); both papers are not on methods or quantitative psychology per se but do involve personally applying intermediate statistics to topics of interest. Met with the PI of interest back in September, just informal meeting about research interests. On January 20 I checked MyFile which said I was "admitted". I then reached out to the grad coordinator to see if this was correct, as I didn't receive any notice of formal interviews and did not receive any formal offer letter even though MyFile said admitted. Grad coordinator responded that same day with an offer letter. Have been rejected from programs in past years.

4.0 masters GPA, no GRE

One 3rd author paper under review and one 1st author paper in preparation. Just received a rejection email from the department.

Robotics