Leo and Tipsters,
I know that many USA grad programs do not require an honors degree. Many of
our students here at Heidelberg have gotten into grad school (in the US)
without being honors students.
My own experience bears this out, as well. I was admitted to the clinical
psychology Ph.D. program at Purdue University without and honors degree and
without so much as an undergrad psychology major. I actually had an English
B.A. and a Nursing B.S. (but I had killer GREs).
I have no empirical evidence to share beyond these anecdotes.
Esther
At 01:47 PM 11/7/00 -0500, Leo Standing wrote:
>Greetings:
>
>In Canada, an honors psychology BA or BSc degree is usually seen as
>essential to entering almost any graduate program in psychology. (Our
>honors degree requires a dissertation and various courses that are
>not needed for the major, as well as a specified average grade).
>
>Can our friends in the USA enlighten us as to whether reputable
>graduate schools there will accept applicants who hold only the BA
>major (not honors) in psychology? Some of our graduating students are
>concerned about this, and I'd like to be able to help them. (Please
>post your comments to the list).
>
>Thanks,
>
>Leo Standing
>
>
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Esther Strahan, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Heidelberg College
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