lrowe721

So true, about difficult to gauge. Especially with the SOP, I must have made 45 versions of it and sent it out to any consenting adult I've known in academia. CV should be decent. Or not, who knows haha. I applied to a ton of schools that are outside of my realm of possibility: University of Arizona, Northwestern, Indiana U - Bloomington, UC Boulder (like everyone else, apparently), Emerson, Ithaca, U Pitt, Temple U, MGH Thank you for wishing me good luck! To you as well I like knowing that even though the admissions numbers are cutthroat in this field, the people themselves are nice.

Is there a such thing as a 'safety school' in SLP? I mean..seriously. I want to apply to one more school, that I think I might actually get in to, but it looks like if you're not hitting a 3.99 undergrad GPA and haven't volunteered in the field since you were 9 years old, you 'might as well not apply.' Maybe it's just the crazy stress of waiting, but I don't think I've ever been so hopeless in this process as when I read people with awesome extra background and a 3.75 GPA asking if people think they'll get in this year.