Auuudriana

One of the girls in my class has the Apple Pencil thing and she writes directly on the power points and it's pretty cool. However, I think you need an iPad Pro.

We got curved in grad school on occasion.

I don't have the exact emails anymore because my undergrad account is gone now, but from Facebook it looks like June 1st for the one school. Not sure about the other one, sorry!

Don't worry so much!  I convinced myself so badly that I wasn't going to get in anywhere that I felt nauseous for 3 months.  I ended up getting into one school outright, and into two off of their waitlists.  It's not worth making yourself sick over.

I received an email asking me to complete the supplementary application today and therefore emailed them. I got a reply saying the application is a two-step process and I could have been accepted last week if the supplementary part had been done! Super excited right now! 
Edit:
emailed them again and got a new reply from Aquiles Iglesias: "Will recommend to Graduate School your acceptance tomorrow". Acceptance confirmed.

At many schools, the departments don't have constant lines of communication so each dept/area of the school generally doesn't know what other areas of the school are doing. There are just too many people involved. So it's normal for the list of applicants to be simultaneously sent to e.g. financial aid and international office (if applicable) and the department to make decisions. Financial aid just gets a list of names and contact info and works from that, without knowing whether or not the dept chose to admit you or even if you have accepted the offer yet.

Depends on the school. The school I'm at had a $500 deposit, but another one I got accepted to was only $100. The good news is that it ends up going towards your tuition, assuming you don't withdraw your acceptance.

I commute 40 min-1 hour 15 every day each way. It depends on what time I have to be there or at my practicum. But honestly, it isn't that bad and I got used to it. Plus, I commuted about 35-45 min for undergrad as well so it's not that deep.

The earlier you can submit the better. I think it only took them like a week to verify mine because I didn't wait until the last minute when they got backlogged with thousands of applications.

ASHA typically has a 'last updated' notice at the top of the page.

I second this. I took CLEP tests and tested out of a lot my prerequisites. They just go on your transcript as transfer credits and therefore do not have grades.

You automatically get $20,500 for the unsubsidized loan no matter what your situation is. If you need more, you can get the PLUS loan. The government checks your credit (mainly to see if you havent defaulted on loans and have a decent score), and the school determines how much you are eligible for based on the budget they create for you. You have to do a credit check and a master promissory note to actually get a PLUS loan in addition to applying for it. Call your school to assist you with that.
 
You can use whatever financial means to pay for school, but at the end of the day the amount you are eligible for (government or private) is ultimately decided by the school.  
You can always try to get an assistantship depending on the perks your school offers for having one. 
You dont have to take everything the FA office offers you. If you need less than 20,500, you will be fine. If you need more, contact your school's FA for info on the PLUS loan, grants, etc. You can call the grad office for assistantship info. 

I mean I don't know for sure but it'll still be the beginning of the semester, so you'll probably be okay to go.

Thank you so much to everyone for all your thoughtful words of encouragement!! I truly truuuly appreciate it! I am so incredibly happy to say that today I received an acceptance from LIU POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ????????????????????????? I literally cried tears of joy as soon as I saw the words "Congratulations" in the email subject. I am seriously so incredibly overjoyed. You were so right @plume. All I need is ONE! After 5 CONSECUTIVE PAINFUL REJECTIONS.... the 6th is a YES!!!! Thank GOD!!! ???

Oh man my apologies! I thought the program began in 2015!! Thanks so much for all your help! I think I'm going to accept the offer, the program is new but it has so much potential!

UDel was my dream school for speech at one point ? My husband and I were considering moving to DE to flee from the outrageous cost of living here in NY. His friends gave us a nice tour of DE which included passing by the UDel campus. Man oh man did I envision myself there. Smh. I thought it was meant to be since they started the new speech program just as we considered moving there and I was considering grad school.
Anywho, I'm glad to hear the program is going well for those of you who are enrolled. My professors at Queens College had nothing but good things to say about UDel and have no doubt that they will become accredited (I hear the director of the program is quite the perfectionist in regards to this). So best of luck to you all! 

For programs that are in the accreditation process, there is no penalty for graduates later if the program does not receive accreditation. Otherwise, no one would ever enroll in these programs. I believe there is just some extra paperwork required by ASHA when applying for your license to prove that you took all of the necessary classes and whatnot. 
"In 1991, the Council on Professional Standards in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology established the status of Candidate for Accreditation for emerging education programs in audiology and in speech-language pathology through the former Educational Standards Board (ESB). This status became necessary because, effective January 1, 1994, an individual’s eligibility for ASHA’s Certificates of Clinical Competence (CCC) was linked to graduation from an accredited program. The status of Candidacy for Accreditation allowed students enrolled in newly established education programs to be eligible to apply for the CCC upon graduation without penalizing the first class of students graduating from those programs. "
http://caa.asha.org/wp-content/uploads/Accreditation-Handbook.pdf
We have not received our aid yet for the second year, but there is a rumor that our director has something for all of us. I'm assuming they're trying to get the next class enrolled before worrying about our aid since tuition for spring and fall isn't even close to being due yet. 
UD is such a great school. The College of Health Sciences has such great programs - as evidenced by the physical therapy program being ranked #1 in the nation. Our director's goal is to make our speech program in the top 3 in the next 5 years.  Plus, there's so much research going on in many departments that you could get involved in. Our professors have a ton of knowledge and many of them are board certified in their specific areas that they teach.  What's also great is that everyone in our program is super close 

If you pay a $500 dollar deposit and then lose it because you withdraw and go to a school that's $10,000 less a year -you will still come out ahead in the end.  I would pay your deposit somewhere so you don't lose your spot and then email your first choice wait-list school.  Tell them why they are your first choice and recent accomplishments, activities, basically why are are awesome.  

@k8! Ha ha, I just have to say that I love your "Decision" line, it cracked me up. I know it's so hard to choose and I'm not trying to minimize that at all! It's just that "idk help" perfectly encompasses how I have felt through this whole process  

I went to West Chester for undergrad. It is very inexpensive and some professors are great, but some are not. I think you will be fine for a medical setting if you go there since all programs have to cover it in some way.  
Also, I hear Salus has had a lot of ongoing problems concerning faculty, so if that's something that scares you then choose WCU.

Like someone else said, you might need to download SALT or something like that, which may not be compatible with chromebooks, so I second reaching out or at least finding out if there are computers that you can use at their clinic with those programs on them already.

I would not.

I would cover your bases and talk to your program. I am a SLPA in the state of CA working for a school. I have been asked a lot actually to work with my clients over the summer. I just talked to my boss about it and got the OK from her. It also depends what this parent wants you to do. I don't know if you can legally treat this child without an SLP present. 

In the fall semester we had classes Monday through Thursday from like 12:30-3:30, and then you had to be there whenever your client was scheduled (they asked us when we would prefer to have one). This winter session we have class Tuesday 12:30-3:30, and Thursday 12:30-3:30, then 4:30-7:30. In spring semester, we have class Tuesday 12:30-3:30, Wednesday 1:30-3:30, and Thursday 12:30-3:30, 4:30-7:30. 
So it's a pretty nice schedule, especially for commuters because we don't have to be there super early.  Also, we can observe sessions whenever we want so that's nice as well.

chips and salsa and store bought cookies. I