The deadline for submission of applications to the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program has passed. Admissions interviews will be held virtually on February 7th, 2025.
Given the large number of applications we receive and the expense you incur by applying to multiple programs, we offer what guidance we can as to how you might assess your “fit” with the program and your general chances of acceptance.
From 2021 to 2024, we received an average of approximately 800 applications per year and have accepted an average of 7 students per year. In this competitive process, virtually all the accepted students met a number of criteria. The successful applicants in those years had a combined average Verbal and Quantitative score of 324, and an undergraduate GPA averaging 3.6. Most of the successful applicants had scores and grades within a small range around these numbers.
The Boston University program largely works on a mentorship model. The most important criterion for entry is that your interests and experience fit closely with a mentor who is able to accept a student in the upcoming year. Unfortunately, it is difficult for us to predict which mentors will have funding for a student at the time that you apply to the program. However, of the faculty members listed in the department, only a core group are clinical “mentors”. The mentors listed below with an asterisk (*) will NOT be taking a student for the 2025-2026 class.
Clinical “mentors” are:
- Alice Cronin-Golomb*
- Todd Farchione
- Dan Fulford
- Qimin Liu
- Kristin Long*
- Samuel Meisel
- Michael Otto
- Tibor Palfai
- Donna Pincus*
- Yakeel Quiroz
- Mark Richardson*
- Amelia Stanton*
- Martha Tompson*
You should locate and carefully read their published materials and website profiles and assess whether you have experience in their area of study. Successful applicants typically have actual working experience in research in a closely related field. You should indicate which mentors you are qualified to work with, and therefore you would like to consider your application, in your personal statement.
We welcome all qualified applications. Our students cannot be described as fitting into any particular mold; we are extremely interested in applications from students from all ethnic/racial backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations, and nationalities.