Graduate Study in Psychology:

Acceptance Statistics

Here's a sampling of acceptance statistics for both PhD (first table) and MS (second table) programs. You should think about these figures only as rough estimates--things fluctuate from year to year, and even the data themselves are not perfectly precise*. Also keep in mind that these data mask any differences that there might be between different programs in a single psychology department. Some programs (like clinical psychology) are usually much harder to get into than other programs.


PhD Programs:

SCHOOL NRC Rank Average GPA Average GRE Verbal Average GRE Quantitative Average GRE Analytical Average GRE Subject % of Total Applicants Accepted
Michigan 3 3.86 610 690 680 690 4%
UCLA 6 3.69 639 716 702 706 5%
U of Penn 9 3.80 730 770 710 NR 7%
UC-Berkeley 10 3.61 600 653 689 659 5%
U of Utah 57 3.55 591 635 NR 700 4%
Claremont
Graduate
School 		128 3.4 556 586 640 659 11%
Auburn
University 		153 3.87 560 610 NR NR 10%
Old
Dominion
University 		154 3.54 582 620 672 NR 6%
SCHOOL NRC Rank Average GPA Average GRE Verbal Average GRE Quantitative Average GRE Analytical Average GRE Subject % of Total Applicants Accepted

NR = not required
? = unavailable


MS Programs:

SCHOOL NRC Rank Average GPA Average GRE Verbal Average GRE Quantitative Average GRE Analytical Average GRE Subject % of Total Applicants Accepted
New York University 35 3.30 580 620 NR NR 55%
SUNY-
Buffalo 		57 3.4 450 680 590 NR 15%
Brigham
Young
University 		119 3.70 545 615 NR NR 23%
Marist
College 		? 3.4 500 500 NR NR 60%
Georgia
College 		? 3.08 460 490 560 NR 65%
Barry
University 		? 3.36 520 480 NR NR 50%
SCHOOL NRC Rank Average GPA Average GRE Verbal Average GRE Quantitative Average GRE Analytical Average GRE Subject % of Total Applicants Accepted

* I obtained these data from the APA's >Graduate Study in Psychology and Related Fields book, Social Psychology Network, and some of the departments' websites. Some of the data are means, but others are medians. Some of the APA data are from 1996 because no 1998 data were available. For all of these reasons, these data should only be regarded as very rough figures.

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