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What I did to explain my low GPA: Though I struggled in my first year, for the last 60 credits of my bachelor’s, my GPA will be between a 3.8 and 3.9. [list of accolades since I started my last 60 credits]. [my school] has taught me that no matter where a person starts, with the right interventions, that person can meet and exceed their goals. I am confident I will be successful in [program]’s master’s program in speech-language pathology. I got good feedback from my profs about this section as well. Good luck!

I was fortunate enough to get into a grad program, but my backup was to join AmeriCorps for a 10/12 month program. I had worked AmeriCorps previously and it was tons of fun... though I would do their LiteracyCorps as opposed to their EnvironmentalCorps (my previous membership)

Also received my acceptance e-mail today. So glad!

Wait listed by Adelphi's LI program. Better than a reject, right? What did they ask you on the interview? I am interviewing this coming week. Good luck!

This seems fairly normal. I was e-mailed by Lehman earlier this week stating a transcript hadn't been received (although I had sent it in early Jan...). At this point, I've accepted the CUNYs are a crapshoot.

Was rejected by Hunter as well.

I am also interested... waiting to hear back soon!

I'm a dude-SLP. Only one in a graduating class of like, 50-60 going for speech (the others are audi). lol

Well, I noticed you are applying to the same CUNYs I am - Brooklyn was pretty lax regarding their word count, however Lehman and Queens both required a 500-word SOP. Super annoying. My CSDCAS SOP was literally the max amount of characters allotted (which translated to ~3 whole pages double-spaced), so yeah.

Agreed. I wish every school used CSDCAS (and especially so because I absolutely hate 500-word limits for our SOPs).

Yes, even though IIRC the "mailing" is electronic. That's CSDCAS for you.

My application wasn't listed as complete + verified until last Thursday and I had a complete date of just 2 days prior to your husband's. You should DEFINITELY be seeing something this week.

Feeling anxious because my apps JUST got mailed out by CSDCAS. Although I know I should be safe regarding deadlines, it still makes me fairly worried.

Just sent out my 8/9th app. Wishing luck to all of you applying... the waiting game sucks! BTW, is anyone here applying to any CUNY schools? What's the consensus on the few programs? I know if I get in I'll likely go (can't beat the price) but I've heard very little from my current school's faculty about any of those programs being large or super involved.

I agree with you. I'm not sure about cut-offs unless they're explicitly stated (like NYMC's program). As someone who spent his first two years as a computer science major, my GPA isn't as pristine as some of you who were speech from the start, or at least had an idea of what they wanted to do entering college (or, when doing your post-bacc). I'd like to think looking at the coursework factors in greatly when deciding whether or not to dismiss an applicant simply based on their GPA. For example, I believe relatively good grades in CS (or any "difficult" non-speech major) shouldn't frowned upon for not being straight A's, but should still be seen as a positive.