The present research adds to the October 2004 comments in the American Psychologist of Templer and Arikawa who reported that traditional clinical psychology graduate students had greatly higher mean GRE scores than professional school students. The traditional and professional students had mean undergraduate GPAs of 3.62 (SD = .13) and 3.36 (SD = .14), respectively. The mean respective percentages of applicants to 148 traditional and 50 professional programs accepted were 10.4 CSD = 9.5) and 44.4 (SD =19.5), respectively.
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