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Amy Walker returned my phone call inquiring about the waitlist. She said there are 34 people on the waitlist. She mentioned that the waitlist is not ranked, but the committee basically knows who they want to roll up if spots become available. She was very kind and stated that they had over 500 applicants again this year, and unfortunately they had to turn away many amazing applicants. I'm a little confused that they would have 34 people on a waitlist for only 30 spots. I was hoping the list would be smaller.

I have never seen any mention of a required lab credit in any of the ASHA materials.

That's great news, travelnguy! For me, being waitlisted has been the most discouraging part of this whole process. Sometimes I wish I had just been rejected, so I could go ahead and make other plans. But if it works out for me like it did for you, then it will all be worth it. Congrats, again!

Congratulations to those accepted! Did you apply to the 3 year or 2 year program? Any idea if you'll be accepting? I'm trying not to get my hopes up about being accepted from the waitlist, but I know that many of you have offers from other really great programs, too.

Hey, I'm not applying to Vanderbilt, but I lived in Nashville most of my life, so I thought I might be able to offer a little insight. Vandy's only about 15 minutes from the airport (via I-40) without traffic. You will probably find that apartment prices are low in Antioch, but it's super-sketchy. I would avoid it. Brentwood's a really nice area of town, but really pricey,too. I think Nashville is a little less safe than people might assume. It's got the small town vibe, but still has big city crime. That said, most people are very friendly, the weather is nice (if you don't mind rain all spring long), and the area is gorgeous.

I did a leveling year at Metropolitan State University in Denver. I am currently enrolled in my second semester there; I also took chemistry (physical science) and statistic classes at a community college last summer which are two non-SLP courses required for certification. I have learned a ton in my classes, and my professors are great. But if I had it to do all over, I would have applied to a school that offers a 3 year master's program for a few reasons: 1. The stress of applying to grad schools combined with not knowing whether I would get in, or if all my hard work would be for nothing constantly occupied my mind over this school year. Not to mention the steep learning curve when I first started taking Speech Language and Hearing Sciences coursework without a background. 2. It was hard to get into classes. The juniors and seniors (degree-seeking students) had first chance to register for classes, so sometimes classes were full by the time I could registered. I was waitlisted for 3 of the 4 classes I wanted to take my first semester. Since I couldn't get into one of those classes, the next semester I didn't have that pre-req that I needed for another class I wanted to take. Out of the 8 classes I wanted to take, I ended up being able to take 7 this year. Even at that, I had to get special permission to take 1 course concurrently with its prerequisite. 3. You really need to know what grad schools you want to apply to, anyway, when you decide to taking leveling classes, to know which courses you need to take. When I first decided to pursue a master's in SLP, I thought it would be nearly impossible to be accepted without any background in SLP. With all I've learned in the past year, I think if you have a great undergrad GPA, excellent GRE scores, and interesting and related experience, you have a good chance at admission even being out of field. I don't know of any programs that don't require out-of-field applicants to take additional undergrad classes to catch up, but I only researched schools in my area since relocation was not an option. If I had it to do over again, I would have applied to a 3 year program, so that I wouldn't have felt so up-in-the-air wondering if taking all these classes would be worth it.

An email I got from University of Northern Colorado said, " If you are inquiring about your graduate application, emails for admitted and alternate students have been sent. The Graduate School will send denial notices." (emphasis added). If this is a common way of notifying, it explains why often denials are sent earlier or later than the acceptances and waitlists.

Hmm... I don't really think the results forum gives a very complete picture of acceptances/rejections/waitlists. Considering there are 24 results for last year when CU had 500+ applicants, the applicants on the gradcafe are only a tiny percentage of the total applicants. I don't know why there weren't any waitlists posted last year, but I doubt that means there wasn't a waitlist for CU.

I don't know when other people were emailed, but, if it helps, I received my email at 3:30 mountain time. It was addressed only to me, and the waitlist notification letter (also personalized with my last name in the document title) was attached. All that to say, they are personalized responses, so they take longer to send.

Thanks Cahurt. I haven't heard of anyone getting an acceptance to Boulder yet, so I think it's pretty safe to assume that acceptances haven't gone out. Yeah, I don't know for sure, but the impression I got from Boulder is that no preference is given to in-state applicants. The impression I've gotten from students in Colorado is that in-state students are less likely to be accepted. Based on how much they talked about valuing a diverse cohort when I visited, I don't think that's too far-fetched of an idea. Who really knows? I'm still holding out a little hope to get in off the waitlist.

Thanks, miscarthur, I am happy that I wasn't rejected outright. I just really liked the program and the faculty when I visited the campus. Best of luck to all of you!

Waitlisted via email today. Did anyone on here get an acceptance notification?

Got a waitlist email from CU- Boulder. I had tried not to get my hopes up about the school, but I'm still kinda sad since it was my first-choice school. Luckily, the sting of the waitlist was partially assuaged by being accepted to my second-choice school yesterday. I'm still hoping to get accepted off CU's waitlist, but I'll be perfectly content to go to UNColorado.

Got my first acceptance today!! I am going to grad school this fall. It hardly seems real. I could not be any happier right now. Now to enjoy my celebratory Pi day pie.

I thought the same thing! I've been waiting so patiently, expecting to get my first response today... and nothing. They notified on this Friday for the past two years; it's the most predictable notification I have seen. But, of course, this year they don't. However I did notice that it's typically the Friday before their spring break, and their spring break is a week later this year, so I guess we'll have to wait until next week, boo! I did get an email from U of Wyoming saying they would notify by March 22, so I guess that's some(miniscule)thing.

I am in a post-bac program currently at Metropolitan State University of Denver. It was not competitive to get into. However, I would definitely advise applying early (before the date to register for classes) because classes do fill up. I didn't get to register for fall classes until June of last year, so I was only able to get a spot in 2 classes and was waitlisted for 3. Since I couldn't get into some of the classes last semester, I couldn't take some of the classes I wanted to this semester because I didn't have the pre-reqs. I had 2 LORs from professors from my first degree, and 2 letters from my post-bac professors. I felt like the post-bac prof who I had 2 classes and a lab with, had plenty to write a glowing letter. I don't think my post-bac prof who only taught one class had as much to say. If you're doing online classes, I doubt those LORs would be as strong.

Yes, you have to submit your taxes, and then you can fill out the FAFSA. I got an email from the financial aid department at one of the schools to which I applied that said, "Recent regulatory changes require that if you and/or your parents, if applicable, file a 2013-14 FAFSA and do not use the IRS Data Retrieval option offered by the Department of Education, your FAFSA has a higher chance of being selected for verification (audit). If you do not use the IRS Data Retrieval, you may be asked to obtain a copy of your IRS tax transcript to submit to our office (note: we are no longer able to accept individual copies of your personal tax returns). Tax transcripts requests could take the IRS anywhere from 7 - 10 days to be completed." I used the data retrieval tool for my FAFSA, but just wanted to pass on this information. Also, you may not be able to use the IRS data retrieval tool until 3 weeks after you submit your taxes. So, you definitely want to get your taxes filed ASAP.

ETS does not approve of taking scores from different test dates which is why they won't let you mix-and-match the scores you send to schools. However, the schools I've talked to said that they will look at your best scores regardless of if they were all from the same test date.

I wish SLP programs sent out acceptance letters like this:

Right? That is so awful. I got an email today with the subject line "Welcome to UNC OFA" I got all excited until I opened it, and it was just a letter from the financial aid office saying they had received my FAFSA. What a letdown. Don't schools know we're going crazy here?

There are only 2 SLP Master's programs in Colorado-- the other one being University of Northern Colorado. The general consensus here in Colorado is that UNC is more child/education focused and CU-Boulder is more adult/medically focused. I'm very surprised to see that people on this forum think that CU is geared toward school SLPs. However, at CU's open house they made it emphatically clear that they don't focus on one area or another in their classes or their applicant choices. Still, I feel like saying I wanted to work in schools may have hurt my chances.

I feel exactly the same way about GRE/ GPA stuff. I just hope that my numerical stats put my application in the stack that gets read thoroughly. I guess that's about all we can do; now we're at the mercy of the admissions committee. I've been amused reading your posts because I think we have very similar stats and background. I got the same verbal score as you on the GRE, English major out-of-field applicant, experience with ESL, and of course both applying to CU Boulder.

I went to CU Boulder's openhouse in September. Dr. Ramsberger stated that they had 514 applications last year, and they accepted 30 people into the program. Now, an interesting little tidbit that most people probably don't know is that CU-Boulder offers a three-year program for students who have no prerequisites. They spend the first year taking undergrad classes, and their second year they begin graduate classes along with the other people accepted into the master's program. Here's the bad news, CU accepted 12 three-year students last year, leaving only 22 possible seats for people applying to the Master's program for Fall 2013 (there's a slight discretion in the numbers because they said they sometimes have a class of up to 34 students). They did not give any information on how many people decline, are waitlisted, etc. They said the average GPA of applications they receive is a 3.6 They gave the average GRE percentile scores of the students accepted into their program. Quantitative: 63.4 percentile Verbal: 81.25 percentile Writing: 67.9 percentile The take-home message of the session seem to be: "Don't count on getting in here. No one is a shoe-in." Sorry to be a downer, guys, but you asked for the hard facts. That said, best of luck to you.

I'm working on my post-bac classes right now, and I've applied to grad schools in the fall. My advice would be to look closely at the grad schools to which you will be applying to see what their prerequisites are. Each school has slightly different course requirements. Although it won't hurt you to take additional classes you don't need, it can definitely hold you back if you don't take a class that your grad school has as a prerequisite for admissions or beginning clinic. Also, pay close attention to what the prerequisites for each undergraduate class are. With only 2 semesters to take all my post-bac classes, I had to think through what classes I needed for fall, so that I could finish up the classes for spring. It sounds kind of obvious, but I found it to be pretty tricky to work out my schedule so that I could get all the courses I needed this year (and I still ended up with one course that I can't take this semester because I didn't get into the pre-req last semester). Which brings me to my last piece of advice, register for classes as early as possible. I don't know about Portland, but at my school (Metropolitan State University of Denver), post-bac classes fill up almost immediately. I didn't register as early as I should have for the fall, and not getting in to that one class I needed has set me back a bit. Hope this helps! I wish someone had told me this stuff before I began my post-bac work.

Thanks @kcald716. I finally found the right office to give me the information about my application, and they told me that they had received all my supplemental documents. Now I can just heave a big sigh of relief that my CU application and my CSDCAS Application to University of Wyoming that were due today are complete.