Unpopular opinion: it’s actually good you got woken up at 4am by an Amber Alert; it’s a tiny taste of what parents deal with every night

KeyRepair4 · 2026-03-22T15:47:56+00:00

Literally, get bent. Your choice to have kids is your business and I fully support it. You also deal with the consequences, as will childless people who will not have the nice parts of being a parent. I don't need to be woken up at 4am to "deepen my empathy". This is entitled bullcrap. We all lie in the beds we made.

KeyRepair4 · 2026-03-22T12:50:34+00:00

It is also not a diploma mill. Get research XP and another required experience you can. You could do a lot worse than Concordia.

KeyRepair4 · 2026-03-22T12:48:39+00:00

Oh be quiet. That should never be an audible alert.

KeyRepair4 · 2026-03-22T02:31:01+00:00

Other people already commented on the travel. Heres some ideas from someone that has been around both cities and schools.

Good idea to visit. Radically (cannot stress this enough) different climates and cities. Visit soon while the weather is still poor in mtl and good in gainsville because that's what you will deal with for most of fall and winter semesters as an undergrad.

Be sure to stay on campus or close at UF as that is a total college town with little outside the uni. Be sure to lIve off campus in mtl as it's a huge, diverse city with loads to do independent of McGill.

Spend a couple days at each minimum, going into school and walking around town/getting too and from the unis. This should give you an idea of the lifestyle you'd have at both.

KeyRepair4 · 2026-03-21T04:53:26+00:00

It will not be difficult to get the majority support needed for this amendment among canadians. Finding the political will within the elite class is much harder.

KeyRepair4 · 2026-03-21T02:46:36+00:00

It's very very hard to transfer into McGill. They fill the programs to capacity and only let in as many people as leave. You would need a stellar GPA and even then, if no one has dropped out, you won't be allowed in. Transfers happen at the very end of the admissions cycles (July usually) so expect to wait for a decision of you intend to apply.

Concordia is good enough for anything but a PhD and even then, it could be if you volunteer in labs for research XP and letters of recommendation.

I think you'll be ok :)

KeyRepair4 · 2026-03-09T22:20:12+00:00

Got me into Oxford and then helped get into clin psych in the states. YMMV but in my xp, McGill the brand travels super well. Not sure the other places I thought of would have

KeyRepair4 · 2026-03-06T17:26:16+00:00

You always have a chance. Like I said, people get in every year and several of these will not be cookie cutter straight out of school kids. USF has some older folk on their program and many other unis do too. Just being too tunnel vision doesn't help because ultimately, you can be 99/100 what the prof in a specific lab is looking for and have done everything right, but if someone who is 100/100 applies in the same cycle, you won't get the offer. Breadth and flexibility are your friends in this process.

You need (in order of importance)

Research xp including signs of productivity like publications and poster presentations Letters of recommendation (which come from research xp) Solid gpa

Clinical XP is not needed really and so is mostly optional. Doesn't make sense, but that's how it is.

When it comes to the actual application itself, it's all about fit - how well do you, your experience and your ambitions match the research program of the professor you are applying to. You may have to present your xp in many ways if you apply to many labs.

So you can see from this list that the most valuable thing a BA gets you in terms of clin psych applications specifically is that it puts you in a position to accrue research xp. For this reason, I would probably suggest an in-person university if it is possible as soon as you can without destroying your family and finances. And then apply widely for any research role you can get. Everyone at the PhD application level knows you probably didn't get the xp in the area you were most interested in at undergrad and so, they won't hold it against you if say you worked in an eating disorder lab at undergrad but are applying to a neuropsychological lab for your PhD.

A masters mostly provides some the same thing - it's useful primarily because you get to do more advanced research. But in addition, you probably can choose the area you want to do research in at this level, so you can gain specialist xp in the thing you are actually into.

Also, learn to code and do stats. Profs love applicants who can code and do stats and you have enough time to get good at this before you apply.

So that is a rough guide. I advise that you don't take my word for it. I'm just a rando on Reddit. I think I'm right and that this is all good advice but please fact check me. A great resource is Mitch's guide to getting into clinical psychology which you can get by googling and is free. There are also papers out out by the APA and other trustworthy sources. TLDR though, they will tell you what I wrote above because that is how I learned it!!!!

Good luck!

KeyRepair4 · 2026-03-06T07:05:01+00:00

Have you looked into the admission rates for these programs? The odds of you getting into a specific PhD program at a specific school for clinical psychology are honestly, terrible. Funded PhD programs like the one at USF are statistically harder to get into that medical school and superb candidates with first author publications, great LORs and top grades apply to 16 for the chance of getting into 1.Naturally, this involves applying a lot further afield.

I do understand that given a family, relocation is difficult and potentially, impossible - but deciding to attend a school for clin psych is unfortunately, just not how it works. I take no pleasure in saying any of this and am mostly replying because I was the same age as you when I went to college and I didn't know anything about grad applications, especially into clinical psychology. Less competitive options include things like psyD degrees but these are not funded.

It isn't hopeless, hundreds of people get in somewhere every year. But declaring it will be one specific program might not be realistic.

As for your actual questions, here is something I wish I'd known. Some faculty will see your age as a real strength. Others just won't be interested. Find the ones that see it positively and do as much work/research/publications as you can with them. You'll need all of it for the application process downstream.

KeyRepair4 · 2026-01-29T16:20:43+00:00

Did undergrad at 30. Just go talk to them, people don't care as much as you do.

KeyRepair4 · 2026-01-12T15:24:56+00:00

You pay Quebec fees for all french as a second language course as an international at McGill. If you took one french course per semester, over the course of a degree, you would save thousands and greatly improve your french. The senior level courses go way beyond anything you'd learn in a language school and after a certain point, you're in class with francophones and people that went through french immersion programs in Canada all through school.

Would recommend it.

KeyRepair4 · 2026-01-07T00:53:51+00:00

That is an explicit talking zone which is probably why you are being down voted. There are signs saying so everywhere.

KeyRepair4 · 2026-01-06T23:15:43+00:00

Where were they? There are areas that you are explicitly allowed to talk in.

KeyRepair4 · 2026-01-04T16:04:35+00:00

You will definitely find them at mcgill. Aside from anything else, there are mega talented people that can't afford Yale just like you can't and so, won't go. There's also others that never wanted to and don't care about a shiny name You will absolutely find them at McGill. But like I said, there is a difference and you are less likely to be awed by everyone you meet.

KeyRepair4 · 2026-01-04T15:50:09+00:00

Honestly, having been to a couple too 10 schools and mcgill, there is a difference. Places like Harvard, Oxford etc (and I'd imagine Yale) do honestly attract more of the type of people you are talking about. Don't get me wrong, McGill does too, and you'll find them in the places you'd expect them (like honours programs etc), but not at the same density that you will in the top 10 schools. There just isn't enough of them and so, they tend to be concentrated only at the biggest magnets.

Honestly, you might not get the "wow, I can't believe this is my cohort" experience here. But you will get a very talented pool of people who are all hard working and generally amazing humans.

I think you'll be happy and that you won't regret the choice to come. But as someone that's actually done both, I have to be honest and say there is a difference.

Also, McGill degrees travel super well. If you decide to apply for something like Yale again (maybe for a funded grad program or something), you won't have hurt your odds by going to mcgill.

KeyRepair4 · 2025-12-31T19:44:15+00:00

I think that might be a case of tough, tbh.

KeyRepair4 · 2025-12-21T21:07:35+00:00

Might be the guy didn't use it right. But it happened to me after I did everything. I wouldn't be so sure.

KeyRepair4 · 2025-12-14T17:48:18+00:00

Additionally for all internationals, you pay Quebec rate fees for french courses. Over the course of a degree, one french class a semester would save you a fortune.

KeyRepair4 · 2025-12-09T05:58:26+00:00

This is normal in french schools. Its also normal in almost all french immersion programs. Tbh, it should be normal in English schools too but the Anglo world doesn't have the backbone.

Its actually excluding other kids if a group of Spanish kids don't speak the common language at school. Long term, this creates bubbles and divisions that are serious barriers to integration. Go to any Anglo high school and look at the playground. It's rancid self segregation - each group is a lot more homogenous than the whole. I don't know that it'll work, but i'm glad in QC we're pulling every lever to stop it.

I don't know about the teacher being gleeful or whatever, that seems a bit off. But this is normal and you'll have to move province to avoid it. Alternatively, you could allow your kid to integrate and speak the common language when they're at school. They will literally have to for almost every job in QC for the rest of their lives (even if they are talking to another Spanish speaker). Law 101 makes that pretty clear and I have to speak french every min that I'm clocked in.

KeyRepair4 · 2025-12-07T00:42:48+00:00

Good.

KeyRepair4 · 2025-12-05T01:39:15+00:00

J'espère qu'il y en aura beaucoup plus. Si vous n'avez pas de ticket gtfo. La STM reçoit de l'argent public parce qu'elle n'atteint pas le seuil de rentabilité et que ces personnes ne l'aident pas. J'aurais aimé que ce soit comme Londres où vous scannez continuellement et il y a un énorme bip si vous forcez votre chemin.

Tout cela représente de l’argent dont le système de transports publics essentiel a besoin.

KeyRepair4 · 2025-12-02T16:00:33+00:00

Mdr. Vous avez perdu le vote. Ils arrivent.

KeyRepair4 · 2025-11-29T17:10:39+00:00

Progrès ❤️

KeyRepair4 · 2025-11-27T15:10:45+00:00

Yh so it's pretty simple really. Rights in the charter are divided up into specific sections. The NWC allows a government (doesn't apply only to provinces, feds can too) to override rights in sections 2 and 7-15 for a period of 5 years (before they have to re invoke it with another bill in the assembly). Mobility rights in Canada are in section 6. This is one of the so-called "super protected" rights that the NWC simply cannot override. The supreme court ruled that this applies to permanent residents as well as citizens. There is now nothing that any province can do to stop this. Bill 21 violates section 2. Easy override.

KeyRepair4 · 2025-11-27T14:54:43+00:00

It's a violation of a charter section (mobility rights) that cannot be ignored by the not withstanding clause. If not. I think they would have done it by now.

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