Counselling Psychology Program

Graduate School
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<p>Hi, I am glad to find this forum.</p>

<p>I plan to go to graduate school in counselling psychology.</p>

<p>I want to become a counsellor in school related field (school counsellor, or guidance counsellor in Universities, academic advisor, etc)</p>

<p>I found out that I don’t need a ph.d for these careers.</p>

<p>So…I am aiming for Master’s degree</p>

<p>I still have 1 more year to finish my undergrad, but I felt that I should start looking for some grad school.</p>

<p>I heard for counselling, psychology Master’s program, they don’t really look for lots of research experiences. I took one term 3 credit research course.
I heard volunteering experiences in public(preferably in hospitals, or people interaction related) are much more important compared to researches.
I have some good experiences with those.</p>

<p>My gpa is just ok, not that very good. I didn’t do well in my freshman year, so I would probably end up graduating with low 3.5’s. If the grad school don’t count my freshman year at all, I would have low 3.6’s</p>

<p>I haven’t taken GRE and I am not sure how well I would do.
(They only look for general part, some schools don’t even require GRE-ex.Canadian Schools and TC)</p>

<p>These are the schools that I have interets in:</p>

<p>1.Teacher’s college at Columbia University(I would love to go here, but the mean cgpa is like 3.65)</p>

<p>2.University of Toronto</p>

<p>3.Upenn</p>

<p>4.University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>

<p>5.University of Minnesota-Twin Cities</p>

<li><p>McGill</p></li>
<li><p>UBC</p></li>
<li><p>UVIC(Canada)</p></li>
<li><p>Boston College</p></li>
<li><p>Indiana(Safety-in terms of gpa)</p></li>
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<p>I am from Canada, so I have less information about schools in US
Also, it seems like there are relatively few “well-known” schools that have counselling psychology program.</p>

<p>For example, hyp, stanford, UC berkely-they all don’t have counselling psyc program.</p>

<p>I know I am not even good enough to apply those schools, but I am just emphasizing that many prestigious schools don’t have the program.</p>

<p>Other than the schools I listed above, are there other schools that have good counselling psyc program? </p>

<p>Thank you</p>

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<p>TC @ columbia is a terrible program.</p>

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<p>Really? I thought it has one of the best educatoin faculty...</p>

<p>and I thought TC is most competitive and well known among the above list</p>