One of the benefits of applying to clinical and counseling psychology programs is that you earn the right to commiserate about it afterwards. It was a night of anecdotes and complaints (while doing laundry) that led us to review our travails and compare notes on the difficulties we each experienced during the admission process. We emerged from three diverse backgrounds: one of us (.) graduated from a large state university, took time off, and then entered a doctoral program; one of us (.) graduated from a private liberal arts college and immediately pursued a doctorate; and another one of us (.) graduated from a liberal arts college.
