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You have to go for a week each summer. It's nice to get to see all the professors and my fellow students in person. I think you can have a plan in place for the pre-reqs. I also know their deadline is early--I want to say Nov. 1, but look into that. I applied right about now the year that I applied.

For UWEC's program, you find your own clinical placements, so distance is going to depend on what the options are like where you live. I think the one big rule is that you can't have any placements within 60 miles of the school because they save those for the residential students. I've got all my placements set up but one. The farthest away is 30 minutes, and that's because I really, really wanted the opportunity to be at that site.

Salaries are really specific to area. I wish I'd understood how bad school SLP salaries were in my area when I started. I probably won't end up working in a school. Starting salary is 40K. That's absolutely absurd when I consider how much education I will have at that point. Dig around and see if you can find pay scales online for the school districts that you'd like to work for. Lots of them publish them.

When I took the GRE, it'd been 20 years since my last math class which was Calculus 2. I'd recommend Magoosh, too. I didn't spend lots of time focused on math because it's not that important to most SLP programs as long as you meet the minimum. the good thing about Magoosh is that it will tell you what level and what types of math problems you're missing. Focus on the medium and hard ones and let the very hard ones go.

My understanding is that my program usually gives out about twice as many interviews as they do acceptances.

I'm in UWEC's online program. I really like it so far, it fit my needs, and the online tuition is the same whether you're in state or not.

Sounds like a good plan. It's a lot more interesting and better taught than 3400's acoustics model which wasn't bad. He just walks you through all the labs, and he's super-responsive to questions. I did take high school physics, but that was 20 years before I took that class.

5070 was my favorite class of the entire program. I finished it way early because it was so fun to study, and I got a little carried away. Dromey is a fantastic teacher and course designer which is something that I can't say for all professors.

I didn't think 3400 was bad. It's been almost 2 years since I took it, so I went back and checked. It was all graded quizzes with proctored exams, a not-too-bad group project and an optional inner ear model which is definitely worth doing because it's extra points, and it's a great learning experience. If you're good with anatomy/memorization, I think it will be fine. Have you taken 4450? I actually took it with 3120, and I thought it was good to take them together. There's a lot of overlap between the two. They both had exams with labs and other projects (one a big group project and one a paper) that I remember.

That's true. They don't have all the pre-reqs some schools require. I'm taking some as a grad student that I couldn't take at USU.

I only applied to 2. I would have applied to a third, but I got into my first choice right before the third's application was due, so I didn't finish it. I think this is a really personal decision. In my case, these were the only schools that worked for what I needed who had open applications when I was applying. I knew that my GPA and GRE were high on their averages, and I felt pretty good about my odds of getting in. I had some back-up plans if that round didn't go well. I think it's personal comfort level. There was no way I could afford to send in lots of applications to schools that I wasn't sure I'd be able to go to even if I did get in. Do lots of research and go with what works for you.

Utah State has good online pre-reqs. All available every semester, and you can take as many or few as you'd like. When I took them a couple of years ago, it was about $300/credit, so the price is pretty reasonable, too.

SLP Master's all have speech-related pre-requisites. You can get these in three ways: 1) major in CSD as an undergrad 2) enroll in a Master's program that includes the pre-reqs (usually 3 years) 3) complete the pre-reqs in a post-bacc program and then do the Master's in a separate program In your case, I would pursue route 2 with route 3 as a backup. I did route 3 since it had been a long time since I did my undergrad, and the schools that would work for me don't have the included pre-reqs option. The advantage to route 2 is that you're already guaranteed a spot in a Master's program. The advantages to step 3 are that you can choose from more programs, but you have the uncertainty of whether or not you will get into a Master's program which can be a little stressful.

No, the interview's a video chat since they know people aren't local. A lof of people apply every year. Just do your research, turn in the best possible packed that you can, and try not to stress too much about all of the numbers.

Most of my group work is coordinated through google docs/email/FB, and we sometimes do google hangouts F2F meetings, too, depending on who's in the group and what their schedules are like. Here's the admission stats for my cohort: Number of completed applications received - 124 Average overall GPA of admitted students - 3.52 Average major (CSD courses) GPA of admitted students - 3.83 Average GRE verbal score of admitted students - 155 Average GRE quantitative score of admitted students - 150 Average GRE writing score of admitted students - 4.0 My stats are higher than the average, but I didn't have the in-field experiences that many of my classmates have. UWEC has an interview process. It's not a hard interview, but I think they really want to get an idea of if people are a good fit for their program and if their program is a good fit for the individual. Their deadline for CSDCAS is in a couple of days, I think, because the program starts in the summer.

I go to UWEC. I did my post-bacc classes at USU. They are very different programs. UWEC's undergrad classes are a lot more similar in format to their grad classes than USU's were. (I've had to take some for missing pre-reqs.) Every school does these things differently. At this point, we're doing tons of project work and lots of reading with the occasional exam or quiz. Not so much papers, but more case studies, screen casts about topics, mock assessments, etc. Really lots of different things. We don't start clinicals until this summer. though, because it's a PT program so I'm not sure how much that will change things. For exams, there's a window of 3-4 days that we have to take it during usually. . Good luck! edit: There are 26 people in my cohort. That's a few more than the first couple of years.

I did online post-baccs, and I'm a current online grad student. All deadlines at both universities are based on their time zone. Neither one of my programs has had things besides optional study sessions that were at a set time. For things that I have to schedule with professors, I just have to remember to think on their time. If you're looking at something like NYU's new program which requires attending their lectures, it will be a lot different than my program (UWEC) that just requires you meeting deadlines on time.

Depends on the school.

If you already have a CSD, which post-bacc courses would you be taking? Those are usually the pre-reqs for people who don't have the first degree. Have you contacted the schools that rejected you and asked what you can do to improve your application? Have you researched schools that might not have as high of GPA cut-offs? Looking at more options and asking schools for feedback might both be helpful.

I'd convert it all to semesters and then count back 60 hours.

Utah State

I'd either take them from USU or look around for a cheaper online community college option personally. Self-paced classes like that would be a bad fit for me. (I took those classes during my first BA, so I don't have any relevant options to name.)

CSUN, but I think their deadline might have already past.

It does seem very expensive compared to even other distance programs which are already expensive. My understanding is that it is synchronous, too. One of the biggest advantages to distance ed (for me) is being able to do things on your own time schedule. This would eliminate that advantage for me.

Position yourself to get appropriate LOR. Many of the programs that I looked at wanted 2 academic LORs. Research the schools you're interested in to see if this applies to them. Then prep for the GRE. Improving GRE scores is going to do a lot more to affect your application than volunteer work as you already have relevant experience.