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@Cowsy There's not a lot to do but panic when you're waiting for responses! Which sucks hahaha. @rainsonata Shame on the school for messing up that badly. That's horrible.

I don't think that they can rescind an offer. Not unless you totally screw up (like fail all of your classes this semester). If they accept you under conditional terms, then you have to meet certain requirements before enrollment and they can refuse admission if you don't follow through. But otherwise, I don't think they would. But I'm kind of afraid to make a B this semester and then have one of my programs be like "your GPA isn't the same! NO." Especially because I'm out of field and the B would be in my com dis pre req courses.

Hahaha I guess. It actually makes me nervous about whether or not the news is going to be good.

YES. I was looking at the results page, and it seems like schools were sending out admissions decision waaaay earlier in March.

This is only time I've ever been glad of a last minute, "OMG why did we wait so long to start this?!?" group project. I've been so focused on fixing it that I haven't been able to freak out about grad school. Now the paper's done and I'm back to where I started: freaking out about grad school. It's kind of sad.

UTD kept sending me emails asking for my graduate transcript (which I won't have until the end of this semester). I think they need it by the time you enroll in the program / before enrollment starts. The director for UTD said not to worry about, and they tend to confuse a lot of people with those emails. I would email the program director to double check, though.

Groupon emails continue to be the bane of my existence.

Same. My roommates have to listen to me read out an email several times before I feel ready to send it.

I always go by what they sign their name as, with exception to PhD's that I don't know very well or haven't given me permission to address them by their first name. So if she signed off with her first name, just use that.

Can someone expand on housing options? I'm looking at Zillow right now and it looks like housing is pretty pricey. I don't know the area, so I don't want to look into a cheap apartment only to find out that I chose the most dangerous side of town to live in.

I didn't know about that! I'll look into it. Thanks!

I might go later this month. I'm in Tucson, so Flagstaff isn't really that much of a drive and I stop by the Grand Canyon. I've heard it's gorgeous up there! I'm hesitant to drive when it's snowing, so I'm kind of waiting it out.

Yeah! I got into the Full Time Leveler track, but I think they'll have me graduate in the usual two years ( with some additional course work) because I'm in the process of completing a lot of pre req work. I didn't realize that the faculty to student ratio was so high! I've talked a bit with Dr. Harmon, but I need to spend more time looking at individual faculty memebers and program information.

That's kind of what I'd like to see in my grad program. I'd like to be able to build a relationship w the faculty and be in a program that's small and close knit.

@Southwest Speechie Thank you! That's a much better impression than what I'd been given. It seems like you can get a lot of exposure to different settings. Which is pretty awesome.

I'm gonna jump in here and throw out a question-- what are the clinical placements like? Someone told me you don't get a ton of clinical opportunities.

I wouldn't totally give up on a three year program! I didn't mean to make it sound like it would be impossible to get into one. Schools in areas that people want to live in (namely CA and NY) have more applicants, so they're automatically more competitive. Long story short, I would just apply to multiple ones and try to find a fall back that's relatively easy to get into. That way you're not left hanging. And, again, look for holistic admissions. Some schools might weigh your published research article more heavily than others. And like @Crimson Wife said about post-bachs, it varies by program. Inconvenient as it is, some schools require different pre-reqs than others do and I think that's reflected in the coursework they offer for the post-bach. (Just as an example, neurology of communication or its like is required by some schools but not by others). One last thing-- look into taking one of ETS's practice GRE tests. They have them on their website, and you can stimulate the testing environment (more or less) at home while you take it. You can see how you do, get a guess-timate as to where you'll fall, score-wise, and know what areas you need to study. When I was studying for the LSAT (before I found out about this field), they advised that you take the practice test cold turkey so that you know which areas you need to work on. I'm assuming the same goes for the GRE. Plus, you'll get an idea as to whether or not you "have" competitive GRE scores for whichever program you're looking for.

Sometimes the acceptances listed on EdFind are a bit off, so take it with a grain of salt (Portland State, for example, has way more applicants than what they've listed)! Try emailing the coordinator / professor in charge of the admissions? They're normally pretty good about emailing back.

I'm coming into the field as an out of field applicant, more or less. But I'm also spending my senior year doing coursework so that I don't have to take a full third year. And I'm a linguistics major, so some of my linguistics classes kind of qualify as communication disorder classes. From what I've understood, the 3 year programs can be more competitive than the general ones. That's the other reason why I tried to knock out coursework-- I wanted to be looked at as a 2 year candidate. I think a lot of schools have cut offs based on GPA and GRE scores, to the point to where it sometimes outweighs the extracurriculars you have. That said, it seems like a lot of the 3 year grad students I've talked to were accepted into the program because they had good resumes (Teach for America, stuff like that). So I think it depends on the program (programs that emphasize holistic admissions would be best). Also, just as something I found about after I finished applying: look on ASHA's EdFind to see what the candidates for schools normally looks like. You can see where you fall in the applicant pool AND you can get a rough estimate of how many people apply and are accepted. I would make sure to apply to a back up school that has a high acceptance rate, just to be safe.

@BamaBelle I know! I keep seeing emails from random websites I signed up to for shopping discounts. I get excited and then all I see is an email from Groupon.

I expected to hear from my top pick, and it's looking like I won't till around or after Spring Break.

Oh, okay! I'll look into that too. Thanks!

I've been looking into loan forgiveness options for SLPs. It looks like some states offer loan forgiveness for SLPs who work in rural or Title 1 districts. There are, of course, exceptions and rules for these offers but for the most part it seems like a pretty good deal. Does any one have any thoughts on this?

Just to chime in on this, do you have any information about assistantships/funding?

I had my interview last Monday. Do you think it's too late to send them an email like you did?