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Email the school and ask for recommendations on improving your application. It shows that you're determined to pursue the program and it will give you valuable information on any shortcomings they see in your application (however small). Hopefully your name will stick out next round as someone who made that extra effort. After being rejected by UofA last year, I emailed to ask what I should do to improve my application. I did exactly what they suggested, and I was fortunate enough to get in this year.
Don't give up!

Are you guys getting really frustrated? I haven't heard either and I feel like it seems pretty late to be letting us know either way. Like either put us out of our misery or make us happy! Sorry for the rant...I'm just sick of waiting. 

Nope, nothing as of yet

My GPA over the past 2 years was 3.71. I had a human anatomy course that brought it down lower than I would have liked, but I managed to do pretty well in all of the pre-requisite courses that UofA needed. I honestly don't remember what my GRE scores were. I didn't really shine very brightly in any category (I unfortunately had pretty major eye surgery which really hindered my ability to study), but from what I recall I scored above average on the qualitative reasoning, about average on quantitative reasoning, and I think a 5 on the writing.

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'.

To inform the McGill stat: I think they aim for about 27 students in a class but we had 31 students back in the fall (... 29 now).

I have a course-based master's in linguistics from U of A (2014), so my situation is a little different, but I'm happy to share my stats with you. 
Unfortunately since U of A does not share exactly how they calculate GPA, I can only guess at what they might have come up with. My last 60 credits (including my master's is between 3.85-3.88), but I'm not sure whether they include grades from grad programs as I've heard that some schools do not. Without my master's, my last 60 credit GPA is 3.80-3.81. 
I do know that U of A does look at the prereq GPA separately. My prereq GPA is 3.96. My GRE scores were: 161 Verbal (88%ile) / 151 Quant (43%ile) / 4.0 Writing (58%ile).
At the time of my application I had been regularly volunteering for a year with ISTAR, the Centre for Autism Services, and CCI-LEX (a volunteer run ESL school). I have done no direct job shadowing, or even direct volunteering with SLPs really (except a tiny bit at ISTAR).
I had a strong letter of recommendation from my master's supervisor who is also an Adjunct Professor in the CSD department, and for the past 2 years I have worked healthcare research.
I honestly had no idea whether I would get admitted. I was hopeful, but I've heard that having a previous master's can sometimes be considered a disadvantage (suggests you're not focused or something). I think the "tastes" of the admissions committee change every year as the committee changes, so it's hard to predict exactly what they're looking for in a given year.
I know you're feeling hopeless at the moment, but last year I had a friend accepted to U of A off the waitlist in May, so you just never know.