Bananis
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5 hours ago, SLPlease? said:
I just received my official admission approval letter from the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at UofA! The status on the application portal has only JUST changed from 'under review' to 'decision'.
Hey, just out of curiosity, what day did you accept? Because I accepted a while ago and still it says 'pending'. I don't want to give up my spot in Dal until I get the official acceptance or something...
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7 minutes ago, dxsh4 said:
Does anyone know how many people get accepted into each program?
I could be wrong about some of these, and I don't know some. Maybe the others could fill them in for me.
UBC
36
Alberta
57 students admitted to the MScSLP (course-based) program
McGill
accepting only 27 students per year (accept about 10% of applicants)
Toronto
approximately 50 students to the MHSc program for the 2017-2018 academic year.
McMaster
28
Western ??
DalI was told there are about 23-24 in the year of someone I was talking to. That could be less than they accepted if someone dropped out or whatever.
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Do we have a facebook page for the people going to UofA?
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All of you who have been accepted to a few schools so far... I noticed some of you seem really confident in your choice but is there anyone who's stressing about which school to choose? Before I was just so desperate to get accepted anywhere but now the deadlines will be coming up soon and I don't know what to do. I've talked to students in both programs now, but still I'm not sure. Do we have a Canadian SLP thread for after you're accepted? Like how to choose a school, how to prepare to move, things like applying for scholarships and loans, etc.? If not, does someone want to start a thread? I'm useless at forums. It'd be nice to get to know some people going to the same programs. I know they have facebook pages sometimes and stuff but...
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I've been accepted to Alberta too! I'm so happy!!!
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Congrats to those of you who got into McGill
I just checked the portal and I've been rejected. That's okay though, I guess. I'd like to have options to choose from but so long as I have one acceptance I'll make do! Now we just get to wait until April 1st... I wonder if they realize that it's a Saturday? Does that matter? I still haven't heard anything from Toronto at all so.. I don't have a log in portal for there or anything.
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1 minute ago, slpslpslpslp said:
Just got the call from McGill! I will definitely be accepting! I hope everyone gets the school they want!
AHHH CONGRATS! *stares at phone anxiously*
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Also, while we wait:
What are your top choices and why?
I honestly just hoped to receive a single acceptance and figured if I got more than one I would just deal with it if it happened. But since the dates to accept are so close, I'd like to hear everyone's reasons for their top choice. Everyone who gradutes from a school says "oh yeah it was a great program!" but they can't really compare, can they? I've heard that about pretty much every school. For me in Sask, I don't have the choice to choose the one closest to home as I'll have to move to a different province regardless. How do you know which school to choose without spending hundreds of dollars flying around to go look at the schools? not to mention there are things like living situations to consider... Toronto can be so expensive to rent an apartment so... I wasn't sure if I'd like to live there....
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7 minutes ago, SpeechWannaB said:
I'm not sure of an exact number but I have friends at both Western and Toronto this year in the program who have told me that both programs have increased in size for this upcoming application year. My friend at Toronto told me "Apparently it's mandated that all programs in the faculty of medicine increase. So I believe that SLP is accepting 20 more students this year for a total class size of nearly 70" . So hopefully this means more good news for people....
I can't help after hearing people post about McGill acceptances become discouraged...the application process is emotionally exhausting to say the least.
Holy crap! That's a huge class! I had no idea Toronto had so many to begin with. I thought Alberta had the most. But that means more spots for us! And don't give up yet. Slpslpslpslp said she called today and they told her they'd start calling tomorrow, so maybe they just started to get around to it today earlier than they thought!
If I remember correctly, last year McGill called over a few days. I remember how dejected people were the next day after the first day of calls but then they got in.
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I'm just curious, and since we're all waiting anxiously anyway maybe it'll be a distraction but.. Has anyone seen a compilation of information about how many seats are available for each Canadian school and how many applicants they had in previous years? The only thing like that I've seen was way back from like 2008...
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10 hours ago, SLPlease? said:
Did you get a phone call, or did you get an email?
I got an email from Dal.
It had a letter attached.
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I just received an acceptance from Dalhousie!!! It's conditional though, that I finish my degree with a GPA of 3.3. I'm not sure how that will work though, because I graduated ages ago with a very low average and have only since taken courses in the last two years but will not have another degree... Not sure if that will matter. Anyway AHHHHHHHHHH Those of you who applied to Dal should get your emails soon!
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1 hour ago, slpslpslpbc said:
They just emailed me a few days ago confirming my application was complete. They lost my GRE scores, twice.
I think we might be hearing from them via snail mail.I checked again today with Dal and they said they still haven't received the second set of scores I sent
They were sent more than 3 weeks ago again... They said they would work off of my unofficial scores for now but part of me wonders if it isn't just that they have already rejected me so they know they don't need the scores... TT___TT ahh I'm a mess of anxiety. How am I going to write my midterms this week?? haha I can't stop checking my phone every ten minutes.
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12 minutes ago, toward the ocean said:
Hi. Has anyone heard back from UVic or USask regarding admission?
I think you're in the wrong thread
This is the thread for Speech Pathology programs. Try searching in the 'results' section.
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20 hours ago, slpslpslpbc said:
Does your Dalonline application summary have anything written next to the word Decision?
I'm trying to figure out if they will post "yes or no" on there first before we receive the notifications in the mail.
Mine just says the same as yours did, I think. That written notification will follow. During the process they were really slow updating the online thing though. I wonder if they would even update it? I have a feeling they'll send out emails or actual snail mail :/ Considering it's not my first choice anyway because of the extra year, I don't think it matters much. If you get accepted elsewhere, accept it. If Dal comes along a month later and offers you something, it probably won't matter if you already have some other school lined up. If you don't get accepted anywhere, and then Dal comes along like the hero of a story just in the nick of time to rescue you from despair, then all is well lol
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1 hour ago, slpbee said:
I'm in the same boat! They told me they didn't have my GRE scores a couple of weeks ago, so I re-sent them and still haven't heard anything back from the department. I'm wondering if I should send them an email to make sure they actually did receive them this time. I'm not really a fan of the Dal application to be honest. It seems really disorganized with some things needing to be sent in the mail and others not.
It sounds like more than a few of us had our GRE scores lost. You know, I was worried about this when I was paying for them to send the scores on the ETS site. My friend did it too the same as I did and hers arrived, so I don't know how they managed to lose so many of ours. But when you fill out the section of where to send the score reports, you can't really see the address or anything, right? It just has the school name and code 0620 or whatever the heck it was. So I was worried it might go to an old address (to a different department) or something. I actually phoned ETS and tried to find out the address they were sending it to and they couldn't tell me. They were like "we don't use addresses" and I was like "how do you not have an address? surely it's there somewhere. How does the mail go out??". In the end she wouldn't/couldn't tell me and I just had to hope that the second time would work.
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6 hours ago, slpslpslpbc said:
Hi there,
Has anyone heard anything from Dalhousie University?
Also, on my DalOnline account next to decision it says "Written Notification to Follow"
what does that mean?
Thank you in advance for your help!
I read somewhere on the website that they'd be sending out notifications by mail... I'm not sure if they meant email or snail mail but the date was super late and vague. So it's hard to say. As far as I know they still haven't even gotten my GRE scores which I had sent AGAIN. They assured me in emails that they'd email me when they were found/received but I still haven't heard anything... I'm worried they're going to send out the acceptances and I'll be forever wondering if I didn't get in because they didn't get these stupid scores... =_=
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1 hour ago, SLPhopeful17 said:
I am nervous about the MMI process too! All of the practice questions online are so ethics-based, it's hard to think of the right answer on the spot
I haven't even looked at practice questions haha Mind providing the link for any questions you found useful? I saw some scenarios online when I looked up what MMIs were, and they didn't seem too bad. It was just like "your friend has this problem, what do you do?". I'm working full-time and taking two classes right now so it's just like.. ahhh interview @_@ No time to prepare!
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I got an interview with McMaster too! I'm a little nervous about the short notice. I'm in Saskatchewan so I need to book flights and I'm not sure how best to get there... Already freaking out about the MMI process. Has anyone had a MMI before?
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7 hours ago, SLPhopeful17 said:
Seeing the GPA conversions on ORPAS just freaked me out lol!
What do you mean seeing the conversions? You mean their chart for converting grades for different schools? I actually found they were pretty lenient but I'm mad that all my high 90s just turn out to be 4.0. So basically my 98 and 96 mean nothing, they're the same as if I had gotten 90.
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On 2017-02-08 at 10:53 PM, ihpmpsdcdrr said:
Yes.
Yes, I got an email the same day you posted actually. They can't find my GRE scores.... lovely.
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10 hours ago, ihpmpsdcdrr said:
Has anyone heard from Dal about their application status? It seems late, even for them.
You mean if everything is in order and you aren't missing anything for the application?
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37 minutes ago, Grenache said:
I'm trying to call ORPAS but can't get through but my questions are pretty simple, maybe someone can answer them...
1. When I'm entering my grades for the prerequisites, do I have to enter percentages or letter grades?
2. For the prerequisites, it asks for course websites but a lot of my courses don't have websites, it was on our school's system that the admissions people wouldn't be able to access. All I can find is the course descriptions from my school's website, should I just put that or can I say n/a?
3. ORPAS will automatically request my transcripts, right? Does anyone know how this works if you have transcripts from 2 different schools? Because I transferred universities, but both are in Ontario, so ORPAS would be requesting them for me, right?
Thanks!
I'm trying to call ORPAS too to ask about your second question. I just get a busy signal since this morning. I provided the links in our school's catalogue, but I don't think they will be able to access them because we can only see them while logged in. Also, after entering the links, I try to copy and paste them into my browser to see if it works (signed out of my university account) and it doesn't work. I noticed it puts spaces in the link so I had to go back and delete all the spaces that appeared, but even then it didn't work.
2017 Canadian Application Thread!
in Speech-Language Pathology Forum
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I literally just gave up my spot at Dal the other day so... it's not too late. I was having some issues with acceptance from Alberta (worried about foreign transcripts) so I held on to it until I was sure it wouldn't be a problem at UofA. So someone should have got a spot at Dal