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Hi fellow Bruin (I graduated '08). Your GPA is actually pretty decent for Chapman and may not be as competitive for the cal states. I applied with a 3.2 in my last 60 units and got into Chapman but got rejected at all the cal states. Although I think what really helped is that my work has been in the autism field and I had my LOR from a Speech Language Pathologist. They do want to see that you've shadowed or have some volunteer experience related to the field. I highly suggest you try to get some volunteer work that will allow you hands on observation with an SLP. I know a girl from my cohort who had gotten her experience here: http://pshc.org/contact-us.html They're always looking for volunteers. Just email them your interest. If you need to work, try getting jobs at a school and that will allow you plenty of opportunities to overlap/meet with an SLP. Since you're still at UCLA, go see if you can get some experience at the UCLA Lab school (http://www.labschool.ucla.edu/about/) right next to the (MBA) business building. There's an SLP at every school site. Don't give up. I've been trying to break in the SLP field for the past 3 years. I got rejejected my first year applying to post bacs. I used my year off taking classess at community college to raise my GPA. I took ASL and other developmental courses I felt would benefit me in the field. Make sure you have your statistics, biology, and chemistry courses completed. I got in my second year applying. I completed my post bac program this past fall and now I'm about to start a graduate program this coming fall. Don't loose hope! You have to keep trying and use the year you have "off" productively prior to applying again. Best of luck!

Molz, on 30 Apr 2014 - 10:08 AM, said: Hi! I've actually completed my post-bac program at Chapman and had a good experience there. It was super intense since it was an accelerated program. I don't recommend doing an accelerated program because the materials that are to be covered in the allotted time was overwhelming. However, it is do-able. I worked full time and basically gave up my life for 10 months and managed to get a 4.0. I can provide more specifics if you want to send me a message. I really enjoyed most of my professors and they were great instructors (who gave me excellent LORs). I felt like I learned a lot since I was an out of field major as well. I finished my post bacc program back in the fall. There was actually one girl who was in my program who was in the CSUF post bac program and then dropped out and transferred to Chapman's. She said it was really impacted (at CSUF) and after one year, she couldn't wait any longer. However to give you some tips for future reference when you're actually applying to graduate programs. The thing I really don't like about Chapman is that the CD graduate department are not affiliated with the CD post bac program and they emphasize this (after the fact! which was very frustrating). I got in to CSUF graduate program for fall 2014 and my other good friend (also from Chapman's post-bach program) got into CSUF (spring 2014). She said that a lot of students from CSUF post-bach program was accepted into their graduate program (28 postbach students). However, I cannot say Chapman's post bac students get the same treatment. To my knowledge, only 3 students (out of 25 postbach) got into their graduate program. I will not attend Chapman or CSUF in the fall as I got into my #1 choice, SFSU. {post bac programs: csulb, csuf, csula} Prior getting into Chapman, I was rejected from these schools. {life after post-bac} For the fall of 2014, I applied to 7 graduate programs, got waitlisted at 1, accepted at 3 (top choices) , rejected at 3 (back-up programs). If I can give you any other advice is that keep your eye on the 4.0 and stay within the ABA field. I studied day and night and didn't sleep a lot because I was determined on getting that 4.0. My GRE scores were not stellar but not bad either. My stats are: 3.2 in my last 60 units (before post bac) -Psych. major after post bac 3.68 4.0 in major 5 years of experience ABA BcABA coursework (1 year) bilingual 1 year research experience (under grad) 1 year teaching abroad experience Good luck!