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I hadn't considered it too strongly before but apparently they offered a financial package that makes it literally *HALF* of my in-state tuition for University of IL-Urbana. I was pretty set on accepting at U of IL but I found it hard to turn down tuition that is that significantly lower, so can anyone tell me a little bit about this school? I haven't yet had a chance to visit. My other concern is its location as I don't have a car and was hoping to put off getting one for my first year of school.

Can those who are attending or planning to attend share a tidbit or two of what they've learned about the program? I've heard good things but not many specifics about their specialties, style of clinical feedback, etc. Any info is appreciated!

Accepted to UVA! Except with no funding . Still it's nice to know but with out of state tuition I'll prob be declining.

Isn't the portal just the regular application link?

Just got an email from UVA that my decision is online.... and its not. UGH! The evil of it! lol.

Ok, time for the moment of truth... Before I began considering SLP, I was in a master's program for education. I had an extremely negative experience where I was told I failed a placement during its last week, then kicked out of my grad program during my 2nd placement after my first observation. I looked into SLP initially because I think I do a lot better one-on-one (I work as a SPED aide to one kid, and this is my 2nd school year in this type of role) and in a more structured type of environment. But I am really, REALLY afraid of going back to school and failing again, and particularly of not getting the support I need to improve in my clinical as I go. TO CLARIFY: I did not get failed because I did some one-time horrible thing, just general poor performance. Are speech pathology programs generally supportive and direct with you in terms of feedback? Do they help you improve rather than just telling you what are doing poorly? I'm considering U of I, Edinboro, Radford, and Longwood right now. And like I said, I'm very reluctant to go back to being in debt if it means I may fail out unexpectantly; I'm very seriously considering taking another year off to work.

Has anyone had any experience with this before? I have been thinking for a while that I might want an extra year before attending school, yet I suspect my reasons would not be sufficient to get a deferral (besides being mostly broke I am thinking to take an extra year to teach abroad).

U of I unofficial acceptance as well! I'm so incredibly shocked I really hope this isn't a mistake!

Shit... there's no way I have time to send a company transcript this close to a deadline. Not even sure how.

I studied abroad with CIEE and am INCREDIBLY CONFUSED by their company transcript request on the faq. Does anyone understand what this means? I got regular grades that show up in my undergrad so I'm not sure why/where they want to get a "company transcript".

Just be aware it is EXTREMELY expensive. I don't have much to add beyond that, though I've heard its a good program.

I'm no expert but maybe your reference can contact them and just say she realized she made a little error in the letter? Maybe she can simply request to resubmit the letter. I'm having an issue myself where one of my references thought I was applying only to bilingual certification schools (I'm not for most of the applications-UGH).

Hi everyone, For anybody who is applying to U of I in Urbana, do you know if they start in the summer or the fall? The website says summer while the sample curriculum begins in fall, so I am a bit confused. This is somewhat important since I plan to finish my 2nd bachelor's online in summer.

Would love to do this as well; finishing mine up today hopefully.

Thanks for the help! Actually, I am out-of-field which I why I am extra stressed about my gpa. Though I'm willing to go anywhere, I'm constrained to schools that have programs for out-of-field and they tend to have higher statistics (average 3.8 everywhere, UGH). I did just complete 4 utah state classes with a 3.75 average and will finish my 2nd BA online by end of summer, but as of now I have very little CSD background. Thanks for the character limit alert, never knew that. It seems probably a good half of my schools will be on the CSDCAS application.

Hi All, I thought I'd get some advice from those of you who'd gotten your personal statement out of the way; I am having a ton of trouble with it. My story is rather complicated. I left my M.Ed program after two semesters because teaching didn't suit me, then went on to be a special education aide for a kid who had some language and articulation issues (and other diagnoses), and then that school shut down so now I serve as an aide for a kindergartner with autism and language delays in another school. With regard to what inspired me: in my student teaching I worked daily one-on-one with a student who was nearly mute all day (she didn't even talk in her native language) except in extremely structured "repeat after me" type English activities. I didn't know anything about speech pathology then; my goal was simply to get her comfortable enough to use language in an expressive and also more spontaneous way, and she did get to be a lot more confident in the end, telling more aspects about her personal life and life in her native country. The thing is, I have a lot of experience that led up to here and I don't know how to cover them all. I've been an aide to two great kids, both of whom got speech therapy and it's where I learned about the career. I also have my starting point at student teaching, but nothing I did there was strongly tied into any knowledge of how language development works and also I don't want to emphasize my work in something I ended up not finishing (student teaching). I also tutor reading with an ELL kid with language issues once a week and have been for two years, and since I'm interested in literacy I feel I need to somehow cover that too. How did you guys go about organizing your ideas into "one idea"? Since my gpa is mediocre (3.5, 3.8 in unfinished grad school but doubt they'd look at it), I'm really anxious about the essay having to be amazing to get in anywhere . Any advice is appreciated, thank you!

Finally got my rejection from UT dallas. If you haven't gotten anything hopefully you have better news. Good luck!

Anyone's else's Galaxy login stop working for UT Dallas? Now I can't even check, ugh! (probably not a good sign)

Hi Everyone! I'd been lurking for a bit here, but I thought I'd finally ask for some advice. I registered twice for the GRE because I was worried about meeting the application deadlines and wasn't sure I'd do good the first time. I got mine back and I had 166 V, 157 Q, and 5.0 Writing. I am worried if I retake the GRE I'll do worse this time and it'll look bad, but I do want to pull up my quantitative. The thing is I'm not a super candidate; about a 3.5 overall GPA (3.6-3.7 in my majors), out-of-field applicant, and I left (without completing) my Masters teaching licensure program last year to work full-time as a special education aide for the remainder of the year (and will be doing so again this year while taking slp prereqs). So basically, is it a good idea to retake? Or should I just get my partial refund and send these numbers in?