Demjc24

I am a second year in ENMU's program. I am not sure how many are placed on the wait list, but they accept 25-30 students per cohort I believe. I highly recommend taking the 9 credit hours if you're able to. I don't know if it has any effect on your chances of being accepted, as they do blind reviews so they don't know any names until they have decided on the applicant packages they will accept; however, the majority of students that I know who took classes prior to being formally accepted were admitted for the subsequent application cycle. The 9 graduate hours can be competed either online or on campus, all of the students I know did theirs online though. If you are serious about getting into ENMU's program and don't get in off the wait list this cycle, then definitely take advantage of this! It will lighten your course load significantly once you're in the program. If you have any more questions feel free to ask! Good luck!!! 

I am a second year in ENMU's program. I am not sure how many are placed on the wait list, but they accept 25-30 students per cohort I believe. I highly recommend taking the 9 credit hours if you're able to. I don't know if it has any effect on your chances of being accepted, as they do blind reviews so they don't know any names until they have decided on the applicant packages they will accept; however, the majority of students that I know who took classes prior to being formally accepted were admitted for the subsequent application cycle. The 9 graduate hours can be competed either online or on campus, all of the students I know did theirs online though. If you are serious about getting into ENMU's program and don't get in off the wait list this cycle, then definitely take advantage of this! It will lighten your course load significantly once you're in the program. If you have any more questions feel free to ask! Good luck!!! 

Hi! I'm a current grad student in ENMU's program. Just wanted to let you all know that letters went out today. Dr. Swift said they were supposed to be sent on Friday, but it got pushed back. I remember the anticipation of checking my mail everyday, so I wanted to share. Good luck to all!!

San Juan Village is the only place that I looked at. This is where many of the students in the program live. I pay $480/month for a 4 bedroom. They match you with other roommates, and will more than likely try to match you with someone else in the program. Everything is included in that rent and the apartments come furnished! There is also a pool, workout area, and computer lab for residents to use.

I believe all of the graduate level courses are synchronous, but not undergraduate. I do know someone in speech and hearing science currently, and I don't think you have to attend it in live time since that class is solely online.

As far as clinical placements go, I'll give a little run down of how it works. Your first semester you are on campus in the clinic. After this, students go to a public school for a semester, a SNF for a semester, and birth-3 facility for a semester. Then you have what they call a "floater" semester where you choose one of the 3 previous placements to do again. In your last semester, you will do your hospital internship.

Yes, it is true that you have to come up with a list of placements and the clinic director contacts them and will formulate an affiliation agreement with the site and supervisor. We do have some students from LA in my cohort, and they did mention during orientation that LA is a difficult location to place. As far as I know though, everyone that has been through the program has been successful in securing placements. The clinic director does all of the negotiating and communicating with potential sites, you could be contacted for an interview though. I am in my first semester getting ready to do my school placement in the fall, so I don't have personal experience with it yet! I think it's great that the program allows us to get so much real world experience though!

Let me know if you have any more questions!

I know a lot of you are looking out west for grad school, but if you want a program that does not look at ONLY your GPA and GRE scores, than I would HIGHLY recommend Grand Valley State University.  Besides evaluating applicants on more than just #'s, the program itself is like a family atmosphere.  Most of the time when you hear that you think the students are all close, but here, the students AND staff are all close!  The staff is friendly and the program focuses more on application than just test scores.  The clinical experiences are all out in the community at head start programs, veterans homes, hospitals, rehab centers and Long term care facilities so you are actually at a place of business and not just at a school clinic being watched over by your professors.  You actually get out and make connections WHILE doing your clinical hours so that when you graduate you definitely will be able to get a CFY at one of the locations you did your clinical placement at.  Oh, and the program is only 15 months!  The last 3 months you could take your long term internship anywhere in the U.S.  Also you take the PRAXIS exam after a year in the program and get that done with.  As far as research, they do not have much going in that regard.  The end of the program exam or thesis is not either of those things.  It is a graduate portfolio of all of your work you did during the program which you get to keep and use in your job interviews to show all of the competencies you have met to your future employers.  
 
Highly recommend GVSU!