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    2014 Fall
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    Speech-Language Pathology, Masters

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  1. This is for all accepted/ attending/ alumni of WCU. Please give me all the information you can about what it's like going there as a grad student in SLP!! (?) I've already read everything on the website and famailiarized myself with things like housing, tuition, curriculum and I'm hoping to find out things that might not be listed on the website (essentially ,"what was your experience as a masters slp student at WCU?") I basically want to know anything you're willing and able to share with me! Specifically, if anyone can comment on school-related/childhood SLP at WCU, I'm interested in working with children in the school system as an SLP, and so related/relevant information in that area is especially appreciated. Thanks in advance!
  2. It looks like someone was accepted off the waitlist 4/29 and possibly on 4/24...maybe they are only going a few at a time down the list? I'm still waiting to hear back :-/
  3. Just an FYI for everyone, I heard that App State University will be closed on Monday April 6th and Tuesday the 7th, so no need to waste time checking emails those days! (Though I will be anyway because it's become an impulsive habit I cannot seem to stop) The two days off might even mean that we don't hear back any day next week either...but here's to hoping?
  4. Still no word from Appalachian for me...no one else has heard either?
  5. Hey! Congrats! Would you mind taking yourself off the lists for the other schools you got accepted to/ are still waiting to hear from ASAP? my only NC schools left are the ones you applied to as well it might be paranoid, but every spot counts right?? I really don't want to have to apply to another round next year!! Haha
  6. I have no idea, my rejection letter hadn't mentioned anything about any acceptance letters, sorry! I only know last year they sent out 37 offers of acceptance based on EdFind, and it looks like there's been maybe around 10 acceptances posted on here so far, so there's probably about 30 or less acceptance offers left! Good luck!
  7. I was a student at UNC for undergrad and I just got my rejection email, so UNC students can't be given that much preference over everyone else! Don't give up hope just because you didn't go there for undergrad good luck to everyone who hasn't heard back yet!
  8. Even though I haven't technically gotten an acceptance letter yet, I can tell you what one of my CSD professors told me when I was first considering SLP 3 years ago. I was a Psychology major in undergrad, so to get more involved in and prepared for a career in CSD, I joined my school's undergraduate NSSLHA chapter, volunteered in the SLP unit of the hospital, and did the 25 observation hours required by ASHA. Some schools require you to have the 25 hours finished before you even apply, some don't. But in order to get the CCC-SLP, 25 of your 400 clock hours have to be observation anyway, so why not show admissions that you took the initiative to do yours early? It shows them that you've made yourself familiar with the field and that you're certain this is really what you want to be doing. If your school offers any of the prerequisites to the masters programs, definitely take those as well. You may be able to take them through other schools too. But again, taking the courses shows them that you know what to expect in the program/field and you've started to prepare for it. Different programs have different prerequisite requirements, but definitely cover those on the ASHA website that are required like a physical science, a biological science, etc. The non-CSD courses I took that weren't in my major but provided my transcript with more "enrichment" were things like Linguistics 101 and another Linguistics course called Language Acquisition and Development. As a psych major, take the course in developmental psych if you haven't already- different schools have different names for this course, but I think you know what I'm talk about. Your advisor might be able to offer more ideas for courses to take to give you an academic background that's in accordance with CSD. If you can't tell, my advice is mostly for someone planning to work on the clinical side and specifically with younger populations. If you're interested in the research side, you might not need some of my advice, but I would say the NSSLHA, Prereq courses, and 25 observation hours are still important regardless of the graduate degree track you choose!
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