deleria

I am!!!! I don't think there's a Facebook group yet, but let me know if you find one or want to start one. Glad to finally hear someone else is going to GWU - I've barely heard them mentioned on these forums.

I'm not in grad school yet, but I'm pretty sure you could. My graduate teaching assistant position requires 20 hours a week with the department, and I imagine they wouldn't require that many hours if it seriously interfered with your ability to do schoolwork/be in clinic. (At least, I hope they wouldn't!) I know a number of graduate students at my current university work, though I'm not sure how many hours. I think a lot of them do weekend jobs, so if you're able to work weekends, I imagine that would really help.

I'm keeping all of our Boston members in my thoughts.

I heard that they might not be pulling from the waitlist - a professor told me that they are worried about the class size being too large. I officially turned down their offer, however.

I went to the open house and they said all funding offers had been extended, and they would keep going down the list if those people turned down their offers. They said the amount of funding for this year had been cut and they were prioritizing keeping their current students' funding. I didn't get any funding, personally (at least so far).

Seems like the letter is from the Graduate School and not from our program, so I bet any information is forthcoming! Fingers crossed for all of us!!!

I got into Northwestern too!!!! Absolutely shocked, definitely wasn't expecting it with my GPA. I found it odd that the decision deadline to respond was so late - I'm assuming that we have a program-specific deadline closer to April that will come in an email or something?

WOAH. I got in. I think I almost had a heart attack opening that letter...!

She hasn't had any word on funding yet. I don't think she posts here on the results page and I do see at least one other person on there who was accepted. I think she applied relatively early, but I'm not sure. Maybe it just bodes well at a shot for a scholarship, or she fit someone's research interests. She was surprised too and wasn't expecting to hear back until their spring break.

I'm confused about UT-Austin - I think they did their first wave in February... My friend was accepted in the second week of February, and I see a few other acceptances on the results page from Feb. 12th as well.

Me too... Tomorrow is going to be even worse, since it looks like they notified on the 14th last year!!! I don't know why it's gluing me to the computer so badly - I mostly applied to Northwestern "just to see" and I definitely don't have the stats to have a shot at any kind of funding that would allow me to afford it. But I only have to hear back from two more out of nine total schools! Decision time is getting scarily close...!

Nope, MGH was my only Boston school. I'm not sure where I'm going yet, but the other options I'm actually considering range from about $15,000 to $56,000 in tuition - so the upper range of what I'm considering is close to BU's tuition. However, my most expensive school is in an area with much cheaper rent, which makes a big difference to me.

I went ahead and turned down MGH due to the cost. Being over 100k in debt after living expenses, plus my undergrad debt, is waaaay more in loans than I'd feel comfortable with.

I don't know. I mean... I agree that you shouldn't have to have an undergraduate degree in SLP in order to go to grad school as an SLP, but the degree isn't useless in and of itself. These days, what you majored in during undergraduate is often far removed from your actual career trajectory. Plenty of people from my undergraduate institution decided, after completing their degrees, they didn't want to become an SLP. They're doing all sorts of things - teaching English abroad, working as an EEG tech at a hospital, working as a paralegal, writing grant proposals... and these people are only a year out of school, so who knows where they will end up! Training in linguistics, cultural sensitivity, thinking critically about how to approach problems, writing professionally, and critically evaluating research are all valuable skills that plenty of employers in a variety of fields value. My undergraduate advisor, who is on the adcom at my school and wrote one of my letters of rec, told me that he definitely looks at things like what kinds of classes you take, etc., but you also have to explicitly draw attention to and explain weaknesses like your GPA in your SOP and ask your LOR writers to address them.

ASU is a great school. If you look at the bios of their PhD students, a few of them did their master's there and stayed for a PhD. Go for it, especially if there is faculty there you'd like to do research with (and they do have some pretty big names - Ingram, Yost). After a certain cutoff point, the rankings are affected by a lot of factors that don't necessarily have any practical significance.