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Graduate School Admission Variables: An Analysis of 1980-81 Students

For a number of years we have been using the APA publication Graduate Study in Psychology in our advising work with students who are applying for admission to graduate school. The information contained in the individual departmental listings is very helpful to students once they have identified an area of specialization and a set of schools to which they may apply. Over the years, however, we have found that many questions about graduate school admission cannot be answered by consulting this resource. Examples of questions asked by students are "What are my chances of getting into a program in clinical or experimental psychology?" "What are the average GRE, GPA, or MAT, scores for programs in the area of industrial or school psychology?" An analysis of all the program statistics reported in the Graduate Study in Psychology would be required in order to answer these questions. The results of such an analysis are reported in this paper. In addition to answering some of the student-generated questions, this type of analysis allows comparisons to be made with previously published results on graduate school admission. Specifically Nyman (1973) and more recently, Korn and Lewandowski (1981) have published results on admission parameters in clinical and counseling psychology programs. Furthermore, APA, in the 1978-79 edition of Graduate Study in Psychology, summarized admission requirements for 1974 through 1979. Finally, the 1979-80 summary report of the Survey of Graduate Departments of Psychology (Stapp, Note 3) reported data on enrollments in various doctoral program areas. Given the scarcity of current information about admission statistics both across degree type and program area it was decided to analyze all of the program information provided in the 1982-83 edition of Graduate Study in Psychology. Results in this analysis could prove very useful in graduate school advisement activities with students, and could provide more information for comparing the admission statistics of different types of graduate programs in psychology.