Ashtae220

Good Luck to everyone applying for admission this year. I hope that you all get in to the programs of your choice! I will (hopefully) be applying for an SLP program next year. I don't feel very confident of my chances to get into a school (in fact an SLP I worked with/got training from told me that I should probably just give up) but I'm still going to give it my best shot. I am 3 semesters away from finishing my bachelors in human services and right now I have a 3.11 -- I'm trying to raise it to a 3.4 or 3.5 by the time I graduate, which I know isn't very competitive for the SLP programs anyway. I just took the Princeton Review GRE practice test and got 142 (q) and 159 (v). I took the pre-test without any practice or review so I feel like I can boost those scores a bit when I take the real GRE in April. I also work full-time as a teacher's assistant at a school for children with special needs (a lot of autism and non verbal students) while going to school full time. Prior to that I worked full time for 2 years at group homes with adults, many of whom had dysphagia issues or were also non-verbal. At both places I worked with SLPs a bit and got some job-related training from them. So far I've been taking a pre-cursor look into some schools in the New England area (Southern Connecticut, UCONN, University of Maine, University of New Hampshire, University of Rhode Island, University of Vermont, perhaps Adelphi). I would love any feedback from people looking into these schools or some feedback on how likely it is I can get into a school/anything I can do to improve my chances!