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Hii, I was hoping to ask for some brief advice about my fall schedule. So for context, I’m starting my senior year towards my B.S. in Psychology with plans to apply for the upcoming Ph.D. cycle. I transferred to ASU as a third year from community college. Anyways, I have like this small kind of silly bucket list of things to knock out before departing ASU and I’m at a crossroads. I don’t know if this is just dumb, but I’ve always wanted to sit for one of those big iconic lectures, with 400+ seats. Transferring from community college, I never got that. I have room in my credits for a foundation of behavior, so I can take SOC 101 to satisfy this! However, I’m also considering taking ASB 368 hunter gatherers, as I have a big interest in this course based on it’s summary, this course would satisfy the same requirement as SOC 101 but without the big lecture hall draw and I can’t take both so I need to pick. The ASB course would satiate my interest in human evolution and would have direct connections to the kind of research that I’m doing and want to do, but I’m afraid of regretting not getting the big lecture hall experience that I wanted. If I don’t take SOC 101 this fall, I don’t have room in my spring schedule to do this so it’s really my only chance to.

Anyways that’s my dilemma right now. Open to any and all thoughts on this. You can also call me dumb for going after the SOC 101 experience for those reasons, that would be surprisingly helpful too lol

P.S. on the off chance that anyone here has a syllabus on ASB 368 hunter-gatherers and could slide it into my DM’s that could also help me make this decision. I would take it with Dr. Marean on Tempe campus

Thanks a bunch :)

Hey everyone, I’ll try to keep this brief. I plan to meet with my advisors on this soon, but I wanted to also just post here too for extra feedback/advice.

I know that Clinical Psychology Ph.D.s are very, very competitive. I’ve been spending my summer exploring program options and for a while, I considered research-oriented programs in human factors and human-computer interaction, a lot of my research in undergraduate has centered on this. But I’ve been contemplating on pivoting to clinical psychology. It is worth mentioning that I have no clinical experience. I’m entering my senior year now and I’m getting ready for application season for Fall 2027 starts. With that said, please let me brief my background:

3.8 GPA
1.5 yrs research across 2 labs
1 Publication
2 Presentations at national conferences
Some TA Experience
3 Solid Recommendation Letters/sources with research faculty that I’ve spent substantial time with.
Honors Thesis

All of my research experience has involved the human interaction with AI or other forms of media (social media presentation-digital communication etc.)

I’m particularly interested in making a pivot into health psychology. I want to do work with eating disorders, and the role of media in that equation.

I’m sure that a thread like this pops up all the time, so I’m seriously sorry if this kind of topic gets to be repetitive. Just know that I seriously appreciate all and any advice.

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