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I'm certainly capable of doing well on the GRE's, IMO. It'll be a struggle, but worth it. Did you try anything else before going through Magoosh (like the Princeton books, ETS prep guides, etc.)? Thanks for the excellent advice @ all. Good reminder to everyone applying to tie in as many experiences as you can into your SoP. I'd imagine a program looks for a candidate who hasn't JUST done SLP-related activities for 4 years - they want something to set them apart.

Hey guys, Just scouring these forums and feeling a little worried. I'm sure the title of this topic can apply to a TON of folks. By the time of my application (post-fall 2013 sem), I should have somewhere around a: Cum GPA of 3.47 CDS GPA of 3.7X My last 60 credits should be around 3.9X. I'll be taking my GRE's in October. Minor in linguistics. I've 225 logged hours working under an SLP in a public school under the title of Jr. Speech Language-Pathologist Student Teacher (never knew that title existed). 45+ hours volunteering combined from an acute patient rehab, a nursing home and most recently, my area's speech and hearing center dealing with autistic and coch imp. cases and 25 observation. I've also research in the linguistics/classics dep., biomedical engineering dep. and for a longitudinal TBI study at my local children's hospital. I've experience as an AmeriCorps member, sang in the university choir, certified in leadership through my university; not sure what else I could possibly do outside of retake a course that isn't offered until the summer. I'm also a bilingual minority male (because demographics matter somewhere, right?). Is it worth applying this winter to programs, or should I retake some courses to raise my cum. GPA? It may seem like I'm overachieving, but I'm a NY-state resident, and I'd like to attend a school in downstate NY, likely one of the most competitive regions, if not the most in all America. What else can I do, volunteering or otherwise? Thanks, can't say how much this forum has helped over these last few months. I'd have posted this in the SLP 2014 thread, but I feel like some valuable advice will be posted here and it'd suck for it to get lost under the dozens of pages that'll ensue in that thread, but if a mod disagrees, they should definitely merge the threads!