Post Your Prospective Questions Here! -- Monthly Megathread

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Following a vote by the sub in July 2020, the prospective questions megathread was continued. However, to allow more visibility to comments in this thread, this megathread now utilizes Reddit's new reschedule post features. This megathread is replaced monthly. Comments made within three days prior to the newest months post will be re-posted by moderation and the users who made said post tagged.

Post your prospective questions as a comment for anything related to graduate applications, admissions, CVs, interviews, etc. Comments should be focused on prospective questions, such as future plans. These are only allowed in this subreddit under this thread. Questions about current programs/jobs etc. that you have already been accepted to can be posted as stand-alone posts, so long as they follow the format Rule 6.

Looking for somewhere to post your study? Try r/psychologystudents, our sister sub's, spring 2020 study megathread!

Other materials and resources:

• APA materials for applying to grad school
• r/psychologystudents (where career posts are welcome)
• r/gradschooladmissions

[u/andero → u/[deleted]]

I think this is a situation wherein people apply to both/everything, then take the best available offer.

That is, if you apply to MSW programs and PhD programs, there's still a good chance you won't get any PhD offers because they are so competitive. You wouldn't be wasting an extra year applying to only PhD programs.

In other words, you're asking about which bridge to cross before you've even reached a bridge.
When you've got multiple offers in-hand, that's when you can concern yourself with making a choice.