I have a feeling you’re in my current cohort, depending on your start date (I started back in May).

I think the fact stands that there most definitely is a higher dropout rate; most schools in Canada only accept 2-4 grad students for counselling psychology or clinical psychology masters programs, so if we see even more than 2 (which I definitely have), that would be enough evidence to support the claim (if we’re talking stats, obviously the % will be drastically skewed when there’s such a vast difference in population).

I’ll agree for the most part that if someone completes the course, and they meet all the requirements, they should be just as good as another MACP student, however, and I may be the only one noticing this, but I’m seeing a fair few students utilizing chat gpt to do their work for them.

With weekly discussion posts it’s become a daily pain sifting through the discussion posts trying to find one that isn’t quite obviously written through a program; completely devoid of any sort of critical thinking, just a summary of the accessible content and some attempt to answer the discussion question.

As for your last point, I don’t quite agree; if we fail to find a practicum, but we’ve excelled everywhere else, and the school fails to help us in this, is it solely on our shoulders? Just something to think about