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Answer by roaringmice
The best grad psych programs in and very near PA are: U Penn, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins, Ohio State, Penn State University Park, U Maryland College Park, U Pittsburgh, and Rutgers New Brunswick. Those rank top 50 or so. Very strong programs.

I mentioned those that are close to PA because in some cases they may be commutable. But you’ll see those right in PA on that list.

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Answer by LJ
Schools with AP Art History:

Art and Design High School (Manhattan)
Laguardia (Manhattan, but that’s really a specialized school – though you don’t have to take the SHSAT to get in)
High School for Arts and Business (Queens)
Bayside High School (Queens)
Long Island City High School (Queens)
Fort Hamilton High School (Brooklyn)
New Explorations into Science, Technology and Math High School (Manhattan)
Forest Hills High School (Queens)
Newcomers High School (Queens)
John Dewey High School (Brooklyn)
Eximius College Preparatory Academy (Bronx)

I got all of this by searching the High School Directory on the Dept. of Education website. All I did was go to the Online High School Directory Search page and type in Advanced Placement Art History in the box that said “All these words” and then look at the pages that came up to see if they did indeed have AP Art History (some had the subject but not as an AP class.)

This took some time, so I’ll just let you do this for the schools with AP Psychology. (Many of these schools have both.)

Here is the website for the directory:

http://schools.nyc.gov/ChoicesEnrollment/High/Directory/Search/default.htm

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Please rank them or give me information about what type of psychology each school’s best in.

Also, when looking at your college applications, what do UCs look at the MOST (GPA, extracurricular activities, sports, clubs, etc.)

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Answer by Prof.Schlitz
I assume you already have a Master´s Degree, because you do need a Doctorate to work in the field. Most states require that by law. The other possibility is that you are just entering college, and if that is the case, where you go as an undergrad does not matter, except for one thing: You CANNOT go to the same school as a grad. Anyway, the procedure is to show the professors that you have a lot of talent, in the top 5%, and then solicit Letters of Recommendation from them. These are all that matters (along with straight A´s, of course) in getting into a grad school. One grade C in any course disqualifies you for life, generally. So, it is tough. Once you have a degree, your required A grades, and about 6 Letters of Recommendation, apply to the Doctorate program at UCLA or UC San Diego. Prof. John Kitchin, Psychology

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Diversity at Pepperdine University School of Education and Psychology

The trouble was, study after study failed to prove the hypothesis. It was a case, the Times explains, of “informational cascade” — a phenomenon in which groups tend to reach false conclusions because individuals often assume that the majority must be right.

Thank you, New York Times. It’s a good cautionary tale about human psychology and one the Times ought to take to heart in its coverage of the global warming question. That is the issue we are currently “cascading” to conclusions about, the Times no less than anyone else. The climate of opinion on climate is dogmatic verging on hysterical. Kids are coming home from school in tears having been taught that the world they were born into will soon descend into a nightmare of massive storms, swamped cities and dying animals.

The dying animals is a big favorite in the schools, particularly the stranded polar bear on an ice floe searching for land. That one even got to my worldly sons. So I was particularly happy to have Bjorn Lomborg’s new book, Cool It: A Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming, on hand.

Lomborg does not deny that global warming is happening, nor that it is the result of human action. But he does apply a necessary damper to the white-hot rhetoric and scare mongering of the global warming fanatics. A political scientist by training and an economist by outlook, the man the Wall Street Journal called the “golden-haired Dane” applies common sense and cost/benefit analysis to a subject brimming with emotion and unreasoning fear.

Along the way, he debunks some of the myths. Pace Al Gore it seems that of the 20 subpopulations of polar bear, one or possibly two are declining in population. But more than half are stable, and two are increasing. Actually, the world population of polar bears has mushroomed over the past several decades, from some 5,000 in the 1960s to about 25,000 today, due to stricter regulation of hunting. As for those two subgroups that are declining in population, they live in regions in which the temperatures have actually been dropping over the past 50 years, whereas the subgroups that have seen an increase in population live in areas that have been getting warmer.

The polar bear example is instructive because the solution being urged upon us to save the bears is a massively expensive but ultimately nearly fruitless effort to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. If we follow Kyoto or some other framework, we can at best save .06 bears per year. “But,” Lomborg writes, “49 bears from the same population are getting shot every year, and this we can easily do something about.”

It’s the same with climate change writ large. Drastically reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is hardly cost free. To achieve the goals outlined in the Kyoto accords, for example, would cost the world $ 180 billion annually for 50 years.

Examined rationally, it is clear that while global warming will do harm to some parts of the world, it will also do good to others. Might not the money be better spent mitigating the negative effects of a warming planet?

Lomborg’s book focuses on trade-offs. If we’re going to spend a fixed amount of money to improve the world, what makes the most sense? Or to put it another way, which dollar spent produces the greatest benefit? According to a group of economists (including four Nobel Prize winners) who examined this question in 2004, the answer was clear. One dollar spent fighting HIV/AIDS produced $ 40 in social benefits. One dollar spent on fighting malnutrition yields about $ 30 in social benefits. Other efforts, like ending agricultural subsidies in the wealthy countries and ensuring worldwide free trade, would net a $ 15 benefit for a one-dollar cost. Cutting CO2 emissions, by contrast, yields between 2 and 25 cents per dollar invested.

The consensus is wrong on global warming. Wonder when the New York Times will figure it out? In the meanwhile, Lomborg points the way toward clear analysis.

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Answer by Pfo
Sounds like this Lomborg book is a good read, I may have to pick it up. It beats someone who’s been a proven liar. At least he addresses the other side’s issues too, which is important. Global Warming fanatics will get nowhere if they don’t attempt to rationally appease policy makers and instead demand a rollback on progress.

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On the first day of any of the psychology courses she teaches, Janis Walters sets a key expectation for her students. I tell them that by the end of the course, they should have a grasp of basic psychological concepts, says Walters, an associate professor in BMCCs Psychology Department. But more importantly, they should be able to apply them in their everyday life. The proper study of psychology, she explains, goes beyond textbooks and theories. The challenge is to get away from the dryness of theory and make it real. Walters teaches courses in personality development and abnormal psychology; in all cases, she avoids framing concepts in terms of moral absolutes—right vs. wrong—pushing her students instead to understand who a person is, based on where they came from, their experiences, and all the social, economic cultural and environmental factors that shape personality. How personalities are formed By the same token, Walters has little use for the timeworn nurture vs. nature debate. Actually, I think most serious psychologists now believe the debate is outdated and that personalities are formed by a combination of inherited and acquired traits, she says. Most people in the field agree that neurotransmitters affect our behavior, but neurotransmitters are affected by our environment—so there are complex interactions between the two. Born in Australia, Walters moved to New York after completing her undergraduate studies. She earned a Masters degree at City College and a …

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Look, I am in a little dillema at the moment. You see at the beginning of the 10th Grade I picked the electives I wanted to do that they offered at school. So in total I take about 7 subjects and I am interested in majoring Psychology when I go to University.

I currently am taking Biology, Physical Science( physics, chemistry) and History and the other subjects like AP maths, Life Orientation, English and Afrikaans. 7 in total.

My dillema is, do I REALLY need to continue taking Physical Science as a subject? I am considering dropping it and taking Business and Econmics instead. The reasons for my leaving Physical Science is that I just am not enjoying it as much( and I tend to struggle and dont do as well as I do in Biology) and I am wondering if I really need chemistry and physics in order to pursue psychology, and I seem to enjoy Business more. So before I make my descision, I need to know whether or not dropping Physical science( but I WILL DEFINATELY continue Biology cause I love it so much …:) will jeoprodise me?

Is essential to continue the subject for the rest of my high school career? Would it be okay if I stopped taking it in grade 11?

FYI- I am using the IEB school system which is the Independant Schools Board of Edu in South Africa.

Thanks. Any advice even career advice would be helpful

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Answer by Chuckles
Psychology is one of the most popular majors in spite of the fact there are essentially no jobs for a person with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology.

You can only realistically expect to make a living in this field if you get a PhD so you can set yourself up in private practice as a Psychologist. To do this you have to graduate from your bachelors program with a GPA of at least 3.0. If you think you can do this and commit yourself to at least 4 years of additional schooling after you get your bachelors, then great.

But if you do not think you will get at least a 3.0 or do not intend to stay in school past your bachelors degree then you should consider a different field.

And since you need a PhD and once you have a PhD no one really cares where you got your bachelors, just go to the place you can go for the cheapest, generally your closest state university, as an in state student.

If you do not want to pursue a masters in Psychology, you can also go into a masters program in a lot of other areas or to law school as well.

People with only an undergrad degree in psychology made a starting salary of $ 36,000 per year on average in 2009 according to:

http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/degrees.asp

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Answer by Adf
Any of the UC will be great

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Thanks! Also, what classes should be taken for sure before applying to a graduate school in psychology?

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Answer by ɳōŕŧhëƦǹ ƪîgħʈs
Organic Chemistry is not required for any graduate Psychology programs. You need to take classes in Statistics, Research Methods, and probably a general a Intro to Psych course to be competitive for grad school.

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Answer by johnnyfundae
This site has some good info on accredited online degrees in psychology and some colleges to help begin/expand your search:

http://www.ecollegefinder.org/online-psychology-degrees.aspx

Good luck!

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