How to find collges and good colleges for psychology??

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hi guys, I am a junior right now and I think I need to start looking for fitting colleges.
I have a huge obsession about psychology, especially counseling psychology, because I like to talk to people and try to help them solve internal problems. </p>

<p>Do colleges consider counseling psychology a SCIENCE? Or a SOCIAL science? What about Cognitive Science?? (This is very IMPORTANT because I may have to change my schedule for senior year) (Should I take one more science class or one more humanities class??)</p>

<p>What are some good colleges for psychology??</p>

<p>What major factors do you guys consider when looking for collges?
1. location
2. difficulty to get in
3. ranking (I am Asian and I will go back to my country after graduate from grad school, so I need a school with good reputation)
4. financial bases (I think a school with lots of money can provide students with more opportunities though I dont plan to apply for financial aid)
5. opportunities for interns</p>

<p>What else do you guys think?</p>

<p>Thank you soooo much!!
PLEASE HELP!!!</p>

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<p>As a junior, what you should do is go to your school library or order one or all of the following books: Fiske Guide to the Colleges, Princeton Review’s best colleges, INsider’s Guide to the colleges. You should also read the “colleges that change lives” website and the “College Solution” website.</p>

<p>Without an idea of your GPA, SAT/ACT score, rigor of curriculum, etc… we can’t really offer suggestions yet, but as soon as we have what we need I’m sure you’ll get tons of suggestions since there are lots of colleges with psychology :)</p>

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<p>Thank you sooo much</p>

<p>I am a new junior and I am literally suffering from APUSH. I get a C!!!
Could you give me some advice on APUSH???
I read and study a lot but I completely do not know what is going on for every important event.</p>

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<p>To be frank, psychology is a junk BS/BA major. If you want to practice as a counselor, you’re talking PhD, which is a very long road. You can do great things if you do that, and some with just a master’s can do okay. But the world is full of bartenders and cashiers with just a bachelor’s. </p>

<p>As long as you know that going in, you’ll be fine, but prepare to pay some major tuition bills and put in a lot of years.</p>

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<p>Psychology is both a science and a social science. Sciences include natural, physical, social and mathematical sciences. At my university, psychology is classed in the natural sciences, but at most universities it’s classed in the social sciences. But which class you decide to take in your senior year won’t matter since most colleges don’t admit you for a specific major, and either a humanities class or science class will probably contribute to psychology.</p>

<p>Any good college with a psychology major probably has a decent psychology program. Besides, what you want to major in may change between now and your sophomore year of college (which is 3 years away) so select colleges based on factors that are important to you - reputation, location, resources like libraries and study spaces, living arrangements, the social atmosphere, majors offered, and other things.</p>

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<p>On what do you base this judgment?</p>

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<p>In most states counselors can be licensed to practice with a master’s.</p>

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<p>Who have bachelors degrees in a variety of majors.</p>

<p>Again I point to the Georgetown study of unemployment by major, updated for 2013:</p>

<p>[Center</a> on Education and the Workforce -](<a href=“http://cew.georgetown.edu/unemployment2013/]Center”>http://cew.georgetown.edu/unemployment2013/)</p>

<p>The unemployment rate for psychology majors right out of college (8.8%) is not that much higher than the unemployment rates for the life and physical sciences (7.3%) or business (7.1%) and lower than the unemployment rate for computer science and mathematics majors (9.1%). That’s because most jobs don’t require a specific major and psychology majors are employed in a vast swath of jobs. For example, the educational testing industry often hires psychology BA holders as analysts because most of educational testing principles were developed by psychologists, and psychology majors are also required to known statistics and social science methodology. The entire field of management is basically organizational and leadership psychology, so majors will be good in management and human resources.</p>

<p>There’s a persistent myth that psychology is a useless major (and political science, and anthropology, and other social science and humanities majors). But even for fields with higher unemployment rates, they’re not astronomically higher than the technical and science fields measured and the reality is that the vast majority of bachelor’s degree holders in those fields have jobs. And most of them aren’t working as bartenders.</p>

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<p>All of what you say is probably true, but it puts a spin on things that fails to reflect the fact that BA/BS holders of clinical psychology degrees have the highest unemployment rate of all majors, and other psychology majors like educational, industrial & organizational, or general litter the ranks of the top unemployable degrees. That’s why it has the “junk” reputation - it’s what kids who can’t succeed in harder majors resort to when everything else fails. (Biology and chemistry are full of people who wanted to go to med school, which is why they’re a dime a dozen. Real work in those fields requires grad work too.)</p>

<p>Of course, psychology is a WIDE field, and if you don’t want to go into the clinical side and you are willing to work outside your field, your options are much better, as you pointed out. OP mentions counseling, which probably means grad school needs to be a consideration from the start.</p>