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    Crimson Wife got a reaction from mud to star in Reality Check...   
    Also, I have to laugh at you folks in your early 30's feeling "old". I earned my 1st degree in the 20th century and can remember Reagan as president. You're still babies
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    Crimson Wife reacted to NatRose in What's your day job?   
    Today is my last day as a bilingual SLPA since I start grad school January -- it's been so emotional! I'm gonna miss all my kiddos.
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    Crimson Wife got a reaction from Daniel998 in Is it possible to make it in with a 143 quant score?   
    Look at ASHA EdFind's stats because some of the schools on your list even the 157 V is average or below-average (UNC-Chapel Hill, Arizona, UTD) and coupled with a 3.7 GPA you'd need above-average GRE's to be competitive.
    If I were in your shoes, I'd take those 3 off your list and replace them with less-competitive programs. Sorry if that seems harsh, but unless your retake improves your scores dramatically, you're likely wasting your time and money applying to highly competitive schools.
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    Crimson Wife got a reaction from Sigaba in Was Joan of Arc crazy?   
    Only if you are a materialist who doesn't believe that God speaks to the saints.
    This is a religious question that is offensive to me as a Roman Catholic and at the very least not appropriate for this particular forum.
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    Crimson Wife reacted to _kita in Was Joan of Arc crazy?   
    ^ This ^ Psychology is becoming a increasingly rigorous scientific field. Your question seems more a philosophical and spiritual based one than psychology based one.
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    Crimson Wife reacted to jjmill in Neuropsych vs. neurophys vs. neurosci   
    You have neuroscience and neuropsychology mixed up here- neuroscience is lesioning rats, neuropsychology is using patients and learning how to use assessment to diagnose brain disorders.
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    Crimson Wife got a reaction from Swishfish22 in I have C's from undergrad, is grad school not a possibility?   
    I assume that was your freshman year, probably your first semester? I don't think I would personally waste space on that. Now a C later on in a CSD class I would definitely try to put into context if I had mitigating factors.
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    Crimson Wife reacted to samman1994 in The magic 300 GRE score   
    I used the 5lb GRE book for the quant section. Overall, I found it very helpful for simple tips and tricks and practice for helping speed up my test taking. However, this method does take quite a bit of time. It took me about 3 weeks to go though the problems and effectively address my problems. Haven't retaken the GRE yet, but I do expect to score better. 
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    Crimson Wife got a reaction from snoves in High GPA and good GRE score but very little in field experience and extra curriculars?!   
    The hurdle you are going to have is convincing the AdComm that you actually want to go into SLP and that you know enough about the field to know that it is a good "fit" for you. You're going to be competing against people with similar GPA's and GRE scores but who also have relevant experience and/or extracurriculars. "Book learning" isn't the same thing as watching a real SLP working with a real client.
    ASHA requires 25 observation hours and one school I have applied to wanted me to send signed documentation that I had completed that. So I would shoot for that as your goal. 
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    Crimson Wife got a reaction from snoves in Schools that don't require prerequisites   
    You will still have to take the same courses whether you do them at the undergraduate level or the graduate level. It doesn't actually save time to do a 3 year "extended" master's as an out-of-field applicant vs. a post-bacc/2nd bachelor's plus a regular 2 year master's.
    Pro of applying to "extended" master's programs: you know for sure before you start taking the leveling courses that you have acceptance to a master's program.
    Con: way more expensive tuition (difference can be $25k depending on the school)
    What is your GPA from your 1st bachelor's? What are your GRE scores? Do you have any relevant work/volunteer/shadowing experience?
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    Crimson Wife reacted to snoves in Does a second language actually help or only marginally?   
    I personally think that it helps, even though it may not be as important for programs without a bilingual/multicultural focus. Part of ASHA's mission is to promote multicultural acceptance and for clinicians to be aware of the cultural differences that could impact therapy.
    Even programs that don't have specializations in working with bilingual/multicultural populations usually have some sort of academic coursework that focuses on how to treat patients from other backgrounds. And the reality is that most places in the US have a great deal of diversity, and you're going to run into clients who have different cultural norms or who have a different first language than English. I've heard of a lot of SLPs working with children from Spanish-speaking homes nearly daily in the school system, even though they don't have a bilingual certificate--it just comes with the population that they work with. So I think that having some sort of background in other languages (whether that's through study or family) shows that you already have experience working and communicating with people that have different cultural norms and values from you. At the very least, I don't think it can hurt!  
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    Crimson Wife got a reaction from Daniel998 in Easy Program or Difficult Program? Which One to Apply?   
    Maybe, maybe not. It really depends on what you hope to do career-wise. Many SLP's specialize in one particular area and wouldn't need to know that type of stuff beyond what meets minimum ASHA requirements for initial certification.
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    Crimson Wife reacted to BeachySpeechy in Should I get a B.A.? before grad school   
    You'll end up having to take the prerequisites as leveling courses in grad school..so grad school is going to take longer for you to complete and end up being more expensive. Why not take your  prerequsites some place like USU or ENMU (cheaper than leveling courses in grad school) then applying to grad school. 
    I'm also curious as to why you have picked speech pathology? You definitely want to make sure this is what you really want to do because it can end up being a very expensive life lesson if you end up not really enjoying it. 
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    Crimson Wife reacted to 8BitJourney in Unconventional Routes To Psy Ph.D.   
    Why not do a post-bac/masters to get the required classes out of the way? Many schools have a required number of credits done as a psych major so if you don't have those then you may have some difficulty with enrollment. Also, do you have a projected gre score? Because you'll need a high one to offset a lower gpa. And, IMO, solid rec letters aren't enough for clinical psych anymore. Can you take a year or two off?
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    Crimson Wife got a reaction from charlottearoora in Advice on affordable grad programs-- Utah State?   
    Be forewarned that the LEND program is on the chopping block with the new administration. http://cqrcengage.com/aucd/app/write-a-letter?5&engagementId=364373
    I would not count on it to be around past the end of this fiscal year in September.
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    Crimson Wife got a reaction from twinguy7 in Utah State Online Leveling Program   
    If he's on Facebook, have him join the group "Utah State Online COMD". The Google Docs spreadsheet pinned to the top of the group will answer a lot of those questions.
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    Crimson Wife got a reaction from twinguy7 in Utah State Online Leveling Program   
    Hardest classes for me were 5070 (Speech Science), 5200 (Language Assessment & Intervention), and the 2 A&P courses. Easiest were 3700 (Audiology), 5330 (Aural Rehabilitation), and 5100 (Language Science aka Grammar 101). A lot of people find 3500 (Phonetics) easy and 2500 (Language Development) hard but for me it was the other way around.
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    Crimson Wife got a reaction from Louly in Prereqs before applying   
    Some schools accept "out of field" applicants without any pre-reqs. It's an expensive route to go since you'll be paying graduate level tuition for the "leveling" classes rather than UG tuition. The benefit is that you will have guaranteed acceptance to a master's program whereas not everyone who finishes a 2nd bachelor's or post-bacc leveling program will win acceptance to grad school.
    CSDCAS (like the Common App but for grad school in SLP) has a place for you to list in-progress and future planned courses.
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    Crimson Wife got a reaction from WannabSLP124 in Career change to SLP   
    Do you have any SLP-related shadowing and/or volunteer experience? If not, I would work on getting some ASAP. You are going to need to convince the AdComm that you are serious in your desire to become a SLP and are not just going through normal 20something panic at having graduated & finding out that "the real world" isn't what you had hoped it would be.
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    Crimson Wife got a reaction from StPaulCCC in Career change to SLP   
    Do you have any SLP-related shadowing and/or volunteer experience? If not, I would work on getting some ASAP. You are going to need to convince the AdComm that you are serious in your desire to become a SLP and are not just going through normal 20something panic at having graduated & finding out that "the real world" isn't what you had hoped it would be.
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    Crimson Wife got a reaction from DDolores in How do I ask SLPs about shadowing?   
    FYI, observation hours may need to be done through a formal academic course in order to count towards the 25 hour ASHA requirement. It really depends on the particular grad school. So if you do them on your own, you may find that they don't "count" towards those 25 required hours.
    I did 10 of my hours with my daughter's SLP since I always observe them through a 1-way mirror. I just don't normally write up a formal observation report. The reports I had to write for my observation class list the things mentioned by the PP (session goals, activities done, materials used, etc.)
    I did 5 other in-person hours at a local oral school for the deaf. I contacted the head of the SLP department (listed on the school website) and arranged it through her.
    The remaining 10 hours I used videotaped sessions posted by the professor. For my observation course, I was required to have observations in a variety of different clinical areas. So I used the videotaped sessions for those. 
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    Crimson Wife got a reaction from CBG321 in SLP Career Change   
    Saying this gently, but with your GPA, I would encourage you to look long and hard at why it's so low before attempting another field with notoriously difficult classes like nursing. The science pre-reqs for nursing are harder than CSD classes. I was pre-med for the 1st half of my 1st UG degree and before I settled on SLP, I actually looked into direct-entry MSN programs. I would have had to retake all those difficult science classes since they were more than 7 years old. I didn't want to be a nurse badly enough to do that.
    Now if your low GPA is due to maturity issues causing bad grades early on while your last 60 GPA is a lot higher, then maybe you'd have a shot.
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    Crimson Wife got a reaction from SLP1719 in Pregnant in Grad School??   
    This is the Speech & Language Pathology board. Hardly any of us are going to be winding up pursuing a tenure-track position in academia with "publish or perish" pressure and a LOT of SLP positions are part-time. Even "full-time" SLP positions may only be 30 hours/week for 36 weeks/year. So yes, it is INFINITELY easier to find a position with a family-friendly schedule after grad school is over in SLP.
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    Crimson Wife got a reaction from Louly in SLP Career Change   
    Saying this gently, but with your GPA, I would encourage you to look long and hard at why it's so low before attempting another field with notoriously difficult classes like nursing. The science pre-reqs for nursing are harder than CSD classes. I was pre-med for the 1st half of my 1st UG degree and before I settled on SLP, I actually looked into direct-entry MSN programs. I would have had to retake all those difficult science classes since they were more than 7 years old. I didn't want to be a nurse badly enough to do that.
    Now if your low GPA is due to maturity issues causing bad grades early on while your last 60 GPA is a lot higher, then maybe you'd have a shot.
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    Crimson Wife got a reaction from SavSLP2Be in Post Bacc with a degree already in CSD   
    You won't be able to do the 2nd bachelor's at Utah State if your 1st degree was in CSD. However, you can enroll as a non-degree student.
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