In the beginning... the backstory

I am currently in pending status at Concordia University Chicago for the graduate psychology. They're just waiting on a recommendation form that the student worker in Grad Admissions lost. I never seriously planned to do grad school at Concordia; it sort of just happened that way.

When I attended Concordia as an undergraduate, I was planning to go to law school afterward. I majored in psychology and political science, and interned with the DC Office of the Attorney General. I applied to DePaul, Loyola, and John Marshall law schools and got accepted to JMLS. I lasted a semester and a half before I realized that I hated law school and didn't want to be a lawyer. I dropped out and got a full-time job on Concordia in accounting.

It was October of last year when I realized that I wanted to be a clinical psychologist, and decided to embark on the adventure of getting into grad school. I began looking at programs and did research to find faculty matches and arrived at a list of schools:

1) Indiana University, Bloomington
2) University of Connecticut
3) University of Missouri, St. Louis
4) University of Vermont
5) Washington University, St. Louis
6) Ohio University
7) Emory University
8) University of Kentucky
9) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
10) University of Delaware
11) University of Virginia
12) University of North Carolina, Greensboro
13) Cornell University

For the past few months, I've been formulating and building up my CV and my personal statements. I taught General Psychology last semester and took a few more psych classes. I originally planned to take more undergrad classes this year, but I thought it made more sense to take grad classes for the year instead of undergrad.

And so here I am, getting ready to take standardized tests, taking grad classes, and trying to make myself look as good on paper as possible.