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I guess they can't quite know for sure, but they do have your transcript so they at least know what school you go to (if you have that listed on your FB).

I know a professor on the admissions committee at my school, and I doubt (s)he actually looks at applicant's social media cause (s)he just looks over the applications. If anything, i guess the secretaries or other people involved might look, but as far as professors that are not the committee, I don't think so. They literally get a stack of 150 so applicants and have like 1-2 weeks to 'grade' the applications for when they later have a discussion about who's in and who's out. Doubt they would spend extra time looking for FBs of every applicant... Now maybe once the pile is dwindled down to the top 50, maybe?

Well what are your topics? They might not be dumb. Independent studies are usually just literature reviews (you look up research on your topic and write a paper) and not really actually doing research, so you might want to see what he thinks you'll be doing. If you'd rather actually be doing research, maybe see if you can assist in his lab while you write the paper? Within those skills what are you most interested in... it can go lots of ways... awareness of social skills, awareness of what certain situations require etiquette- wise, ability to detect emotion. So generally, if its just the paper, you're writing on something that has some research already, but then you can criticize it and say if more stuff needs to be known, etc. So you might not need to know what skills need more research (if its just the paper).. I'd suggest looking at papers your professor has written, and look up names/papers of others that are listed on his research. See what his area of research is within social skills to get a better picture. That's not to say that if you find something more interesting you can't do it, he can still help but he might be more knowledgeable on his little area to show you were to look for papers.

She doesn't necessarily have to provide that. I mean, it may be helpful if her GPA or GREs are low, but otherwise we can just tell her places that accept post-baccs or places she can do pre-reqs. Here's your options: Do a second bachelors--- some people go this route, and that will end up being 6 years (4 years for bachelors , 2 years for Masters)... BUT There are some schools that are accelerated (meaning bachelors +masters in 5 years... The ones I know off the top of my head are Duquesne University, University of Rhode Island,University of Central Florida, and Calvin College... pretty much once you get in then you don't have to worry about applying to grad school cause you'll be there the whole time. Since you're international you might get some funding. Do a Post-bacc and then apply to Masters programs-- These don't guarantee that you get into a Masters but they give you the classes you need so you can apply to programs. Some programs that fit this are Portland State University, LaSalle university, University of Pittsburgh, Loyola University, Chapman University... many more if you search "SLP post bacc" ** Actually here is a site that lists a good amount... and some are ONLINE, so you can stay Bali, make money/work and do the prerequisites online and not have to worry about moving until getting into a grad program. http://www.scribd.com/doc/139339993/Post-Bacc-Courses-in-Speech-Language-Pathology Last option: Some schools accept Masters students without the prerequisites but then you take them the summer before classes start. I don't know of many, so maybe others can help... Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Public Health might? Good luck!

I'd say 5-8 schools is a good amount. Don't do all reach schools. Think about if you have a certain population you're interested in. If you like the medical side of things.. make sure there are placements in hospitals or VAs close by (their website SHOULD list some placements students can have). Likewise, if you're interested in Autism or Voice, see if the school offers a certificate in that or has a clinic for that. See what things the professors teach. Somewhere on the website it might list classes (if not try to find their student handbook, they should be listed there) and compare what classes they each have.

I've had a horrible time with school SLPs as well. Try contacting your local hospital or children's hospital. See if they having something about volunteering or interning. You can check their volunteer page or SLP department page. I looked up the SLPs and emailed them, who then referred me to the volunteer person to get clearances done. But you can contact either. I'd suggest asking if you can shadow them for a day to see if you want to volunteer there. Then after your experience ask about volunteering more regularly.. You can even just volunteer for the hospital (doesn't have to be SLP ... they like seeing you have interests outside of SLP too). Try to do an independent study. You'll get to look into something that interests you with a professor's help. It usually has something to do with what the professor does, and you just look up articles and stuff and then either write a paper, make a poster or something along those lines. Find a club you enjoy-- like i said they like seeing you're just involved. Maybe join big brothers, big sisters... or a volunteer group (in something you are interested in... don't "force" it)... or just another group. If you're interested in business then maybe join a business club, if you like the enviro, then an enviro club. As for me, I've been an officer in the linguistics club, a member in the NSSLHA club and then I've just been volunteering at a children's hospital (in high school I worked at a daycare as well). I also do research with a professor, work in his lab and I am doing an undergraduate thesis with him (but that's cause I like research... so don't feel forced to do it. That's why I mentioned independent study so you can just write a paper but not go through the research process). Besides these I've also travelled to Spain. In my personal statement I mostly talked about the differences between spain and here and how we communicate and also mentioned how I saw a kid who had a neonatal stroke develop in my daycare. I think i wrote a couple sentences on doing research and stuff too. Basically just use what you got but don't just list everything you've done... that'll be done in the resume part of the application. I just focused on two or three nd how those shaped me, I didn't just list them! tl;dr... just find one or two things you REALLY enjoy and focus on those and use them in your application. Doesn't have to be in SLP, can be related.

I'd suggest looking at the results page on this forum. Just type in the school and "speech" and it'll show you results for people applied in past years and what they might've had scores-wise. ASHA's EdFind also lists (possibly outdated) scores info for each school.

Just a warning-- if you're doing any schools on CSDCAS the scores might not come in time for the Jan 15 deadline if you take it after finals. That doesn't mean it won't, but there's a chance. If you've already submitted your CSDCAS application for CSDCAS, then you can maybe just warn schools that another GRE score is coming so they look out for it, but for now they'll have the other score. If you're waiting til after you get the new scores in Dec to submit to CSDCAS... I wouldn't. I know my school wants it "verified" by Jan. 15 but that usually means submitting the application on CSDCAS by Dec 15 to give them time to go through your credentials and verify it before the Jan 15 date. But if the school only wants it "completed" by that date then you can wait a little longer.

I agree with the person above... Plus now you can take classes that may be more interesting to you but still related to the field... like in education, psych, linguistics. They all would look good. See if your school offers classes that would help you get licensure to work in the schools after you have your Masters (if your state requires teacher licensure to work in the schools, that is). Then you can take those classes before you're even in the Masters so you're already set.

Plus, that's just the "average" overall GPA... so some students get in with GPAs below that, although I'm sure they weigh the CSD gpa more heavily, so no worries. If you have certain schools in mind check their website too, as ASHA isn't always uptodate with that... sometimes their websites aren't either, so its even better to go the top of this page and click on "results search" and then type in your school and SLP (ex. UCLA SLP or Temple SLP) tog et recent results from last years application crowd to give you an idea of who got in and who didn't. Some post their GPA in the comments section, or under the column where it says if that person was accepted/rejected there is sometimes a red diamond--- hover over it and it will tell you their GPS and GRE scores. That will give you a better understanding of those accepted into that school... (Take it with a grain of salt though, as they don't mention their extracurriculars, and so some with 3.5 GPA and slightly above average GREs got into a school but then a person with 3.8 and average GRE didn't... so we don't know the deciding factors there)

Yes-- definitely guess if you don't know! Don't wait to guess til the end though, just incase you run out of time, its better to have an answer and be possibly right than o answer at all. So after a minute make an educated guess and mark the question then move on... if you have time at the end then go back to the ones your marked/guessed on. Sometimes going on and coming back helps you think about the question better as well. Just go over the simple math rules the day before to help math go more quickly-- like divisibility rules (ie. add up the digits, if the sum is divisible by 3 then the whole number is... like 345 3+4+5= 12 and 12 is divisible by 3 so that means 345 is as well.), know the squares of 1-13, pythagorean theorem, prime numbers from like 2-19 (2 is the lowest prime # and the only even prime #)... stuff like that. I'm sure if you search like "GRE math cheat sheet" or something you'll find these all listed. Although you can do it on the calculator, if you know it off the top of your head it makes it even quicker. Like hter person said above, just be calm and do it question by question. If you didn't know the one before just forget about and and focus on the one you have now. You can always go back and you might know how to do ones later on... so don't waste time on one question. I'd say give 2 min max for a question, even less.

I would think that since you kept the 2.0 and didn't get suspended that no academic disciplinary action was taken. To make sure, I'd contact your academic advisor or the admissions/financial aid office.

A general ruleof thumb for GRE id 50%tile in math and verbal and about 4+ on the writing so you're good on that. the best thing to do is go to the school's website and see if they list average stats... you can also go to the top of this page and click on "Results Search" and then type in the name of a school and Speech (ex. Temple Speech or UCLA Speech) and it will give you results from last year and people will list if they got in or not... then under the column where it says if the person is accepted/rejected there might be a red diamond... just hover over it and it will say their stats to give you an idea. (Someitmes ppl post their stats in the comment section to the right of their entry too)

I'm not sure about AP classes, but I went with the abbreviations, although my application was for the school I'm currently attending so they knew what most meant. With that said, the entire title of the course you used as an example probably won't fit in the space they provide. You can maybe alter it so its more understandable, I think I did that for one class and CSDCAS people still took it.

I called about a similar question. From what I understood, you can't edit a pre-existing essay, but you can add a new essay to a school. Although I'm not sure if that includes schools that were in your application the first time applying or if they have to be new after already submitting your application, if that makes sense... Basically one of my schools required submitting the CSDCAS application this past week and should give decisions by this week (early admissions for undergrads, but nothing guaranteed). So in the case I don't make it in I still have time for the regular season. I only had that school on the CSDCAS system when I submitted the application to CSDCAS. I called CSDCAS and they said the only revisions you can make after submitting are adding new schools and adding new essays (possibly to already existing schools as well?).