1 Consider starting a psychology club at your school. 2  Look for volunteer opportunities in your community. 3  Start looking at universities during your junior year.  Get to know your teachers so that they will be able to offer good letters of recommendation.
A stipend is a fixed, regular payment, usually meant to pay for something specific. It's kind of like an allowance, but for grownups â a college scholarship might include a stipend each semester for books, for example.
Stipend rates. Stipend rates are established by the United Nations. The rates are reviewed periodically on the basis of actual expenditures incurred by fellows in the various countries of study. The stipend is normally established at two different rates for each country: the travel rate and the residential rate.