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Speech@NYU Student here. I'm in my 2nd to last semester. Placements have been harder to get due to COVID. Currently, many sites are transitioning from teletherapy to in-person. Because of that, many sites want to limit bodies in the room and therefore won't take interns in the Summer, and I heard of some skipping out on Fall 2021 as well. This has affected all SLP programs, not just NYU. The Clinical Field Placement Team (CFPT) will try to find placements in your area within a 70 mile radius, and they typically start with placements they already contracts with. Your first field placement begins in Prac 3, and typically you'll be placed at a school or private practice. I heard summer placements in general have limited field placements (e.g., school not in session), so I think most placements are private practice. I'm not sure about typical adult placement availability in the summer since my placements have been affected by COVID. The CFPT prioritizes making sure you have varied settings or populations depending on availability. You can take charge of the kind of field placements you get depending on the direction you want to go (via personal referrals), but it highly depends on whether affiliation agreements (contracts) can be reached between NYU and the site, and if those contracts can be obtained in time before you start your field placements. The CFPT takes referrals and they can never guarantee that you get to work in your placement site until that contract and ASHA-certified SLP are confirmed. So, if you have a personal referral (an SLP who agreed to host you), get in contact with the CFPT as soon as possible to get the contract process started with the site. It can take anywhere from weeks (1-2 weeks) to months (I've heard as long as 6-8 months if the site edits the contract). NYU does have a decent amount of contracts in place at various locations, so if you don't have a personal referral, then you'll be given one through their contracts if a spot is available. Again, COVID complicated things, so I know many students who didn't have a placement for Prac 3 or 4, and completed SimuCase hours (75 max). COVID made it really stressful and frustrating for a lot of students without placements. The CFPT will still search during your practicum for placements or short term contracts. Some students elected to take a Leave of Absence (LOA) so that they can delay their placements for potential adult placement availability (You can take up to 2 LOAs during your entire program). For me, due to COVID, I didn't have a Prac 4 placement secured until two weeks before Prac 4 started. I got this placement through a personal referral from an SLP that I previously worked under. I told her my situation and she just happened to have a good connection to a site that already had an affiliation agreement with NYU in place from before. So, I lucked out. My final placement is also a personal referral through a colleague of mine. This personal referral is a school SLP. NYU does not have an affiliation agreement in place with the school district. It took a month for the CFPT to get in contact with the right HR person to then send over the contract for review. It's been a few months and the contract is still being reviewed. I am hoping the contract is confirmed in the next three months before Fall semester starts. For Prac 3, my placement specialist was able to get me a placement, though I shared it with another student and obtained just enough hours. It worked out overall because the SLP I worked with hooked me up with my adult placement. I think the placement process may be similar for Speech@Emerson since they also work with 2U. At Speech@NYU, the placement specialist that actually finds the sites for students work for 2U. They work closely with NYU's CFPT team (all SLPs) to ensure they are meeting NYU requirements. So I imagine it might be similar for Emerson. Overall, getting a placement is really dependent on what's available in your area and whether contracts are in place or if they can be obtained on time. If you're planning to use personal referrals for some or all of your placements, I would gather as much information as possible about the placement process with the CFPT or with your Academic Advisor, and get the process started before you start Prac 3, 4, 5, like at least 9-10 months in advance. And, keep in close contact with your placement specialist about the contract process, especially if you haven't started the Prac sequence since they prioritize students who are already in the Prac sequence. Speech@NYU has a pretty large FB Group that incoming students can join for more information or to ask questions about this process and professor recommendations!

Just an update since I shared about WeWork. Due to the global pandemic and drop in usage, the access to WeWork spaces will be discontinued at the end of Aug 2020. I am not sure if that access will be coming back. They're changing the LMS from 2U to Brightspace for Spring 2021.

I felt that NYU courses are more rigorous than USU courses, which was likely because of the live session addition. There's more expected of us than USU! You have to apply your knowledge of materials in classes, be more prepared to share answers due to the flipped classroom model, participate in individual and group presentations. Some of the assignments can be tedious (speech sounds and language sample analysis) and really apply our understanding of phonological processes, or understanding of anatomy/physiology as it relates to the speech mechanism. The full time track will keep you extremely busy! I was on the part time track, and that kept me busy. I am now on the full time track due to life circumstances that changed things up for me, and I was extremely busy, hopping from one assignment to the next, and arriving to class somewhat prepared enough to participate but not as prepared as I wanted to be! Yeah, the tuition is crazy! If you study well, I think you can qualify for a scholarship based on merit which all students are automatically considered for. I think there are other scholarships that NYU offers that you can apply for if you're eligible.

I completed my postbacc prior to applying. I had to take just 1 prereq class since the USU postbac course didnt cover it. It was Neurological Bases of Cognition, Behavior, and Communication. I think you either have to have your prereqs done beforehand or take NYU's prereqs. Online live sessions are once a week, but you take about 2-5 classes depending on if you are on the part time or full time track. Morning and evening class times are offered and the times are selected to accommodate students on the west and east coast. I think there are generally more afternoon/evening class than morning. If you are on the east coast, then the classes are evenings, usually 7pm EST or 8pm EST, more often 7pm. For west coast, that would be 4pm-5pm PST start times. I'm on the west coast and a night owl, and I remember always selecting evening EST hours, so my classes started anywhere from 1-5pm PST. But I remember seeing some 10am EST available sections for some classes. These start times I mention vary by class and semester and # of students. Class offerings generally fall between Monday-Thursday and usually offered for 1-3 of the days, not all four days. I've never seen an offering for Friday. Currently, I have one class on Monday 2pm, another on Tuesday 3pm, and another on Wednesday 4pm. Each student is given a plan of study, and you usually have to adhere to the plan of study. The plan of study for each individual helps inform class offerings. I wonder if that is for class sizes, which are very small. I think my largest class size was 12 maybe? As for scholarships, I think students are considered for merit-based scholarships automatically? I remember I received a scholarship letter shortly after my acceptance letter. I did not formally apply to scholarships. With the additional prereq class, I was still about ~10K or so over Emerson's tuition. I also got accepted into Emersons but chose NYU at the time because Emerson's program was so new and NYU allowed me to start earlier... and at the time, I read that NYU would expose me more to adult populations in my clinical experiences. I wanted that just in case I changed my mind about working with children during the program. Also, congrats on getting into NYU! The biggest con is the expensive tuition. Otherwise, it is a great program. I don't know much about Emerson other than that they are big on child/school-aged children/early intervention. It might also be worth factoring in the kinds of population you want to work with into your decision.

Hey all! I remember scouring the internet for information about NYU and Emerson's MS in speech language pathology program and couldn't find any when I first applied, so I thought I'd share my experience so far! I can understand why there's not a lot of info because most students who start this program are SO BUSY. I also wanted to share that NYU went up in ranks for their master's in speech language pathology and is now ranked #38! I think their previous ranking was in the 60s or 80s a couple of years ago. So far, I've really enjoyed my experience at Speech@NYU. A few general information about the NYU 's online class experience for those who are considering it. The courses are conducted in a flipped classroom model where students are expected to watch asynchronous lectures prior to live sessions. The async lectures, organized in a series of modules, are about 1-1 hr 20 min in total video time each week; some weeks can be more or less time depending on the course. Throughout the lectures, you have to answer multiple choice questions or write short answered responses to questions that help you apply your knowledge of the lecture. Transcripts and subtitles are provided for each lecture as well as ppt slides in PDF form. I think that's probably pretty standard for universities that partner with 2U. I believe Emerson 's speech program is on the same platform as NYU. The platform also has a course wall for each class that allows you to post questions and information to the whole class. After completing async content and readings, you meet with your class each week using Zoom to apply your knowledge of the lecture in a few different ways depending on the class/professor: group break out sessions to discuss questions or complete activities or class discussion (Q/A). Almost always, after being in a breakout session, you and your group have to share with the class about what you discussed. 5-10 minutes are usually given for breakout groups (randomized usually) which is only enough time to look through your notes before you have to share with the class, so definitely come prepared with knowledge of the material. Zoom has a lot of features to allow individual/group presentations. Students have to give presentations, both individual and/or group presentations using screen sharing. I think I've had at least 1 presentation per class in most of my classes. The course content is rigorous. You definitely will be expected to learn and then apply knowledge of anatomy and physiology related to speech, especially in classes about adult speech/language/communication disorders. For exams, it is fair and difficult. From what I remember from previous courses, the exams had combinations of MC/TF and short answer. There were some classes that had MC/TF/Matching. Also, you will often be working on some assignments in groups of 2-4. In regards to the online format, I felt that there was high engagement with classmates, especially in the courses that teach directly about communication disorders because of the group assignments and live session. Prac 1 and 2 have a lot of group assignments than normal courses. Prac 1 and 2 (esp 1) both are a LOT of work, so it's good to know and prepare for that. I also was in texting group chains with my classmates and met up over zoom for assignments. This was extremely helpful. You could also not participate in social aspects if you so desire. I felt very supported by my professors, student success specialists and academic counselors. My student support specialist will call every so often to check up on me near the beginning of the semester. The con that I didn't like was that my student support specialist changed 3 times so far. I prefer to have a consistent person, but all of them were very nice and easy to get along with. There's also a MS Seminar that every online student in the program has to take every semester. You meet up with all the students in the program over zoom to watch presentations about resources as well as how to prepare for Practicum. Speech@NYU also has options to pursue a Master's thesis or research (yes, as an online student). There's also an opportunity to study abroad in Lund, Sweden and Accra, Ghana. In addition to all of this, I've received notifications for Coffee Meet Ups, bilingual speech meetings, etc. So, I felt NYU did a good job to provide a good amount of opportunities for students to be engaged with campus opportunities. Students can also become a Student Ambassador. I dunno the details to be a part of that but I had classmates that were student ambassadors and held some leadership role for the program. One thing I also really came to appreciate was learning more about working with the adult population from my professors. I felt that I got pretty good exposure to both children populations and adult populations so far. A fair amount of my professors had backgrounds in working with school-age/young children populations, and a fair amount in adult populations. I was pretty set on working with school-aged children, but after some of my courses, I have become more open to working with adults. Two things that I did not expect but thought really enriched the learning experience for me is when some professors in the async lectures used videos from other sites to expose students to how speech/language/communication disorders sound/look like. Also, some professors used their own therapy videos with a client to teach about different concepts. Some professors used actresses to play the client in order to show how to do a oral-motor exam or conduct an interview. Those were great learning experiences! Another perk that comes with a program with 2U is the 24/7 access to WeWork spaces globally (so I think this also applies to Emerson's online program), and you can invite friends to study so long as you are on the premise. WeWork is aweeesommee. Some places have unlimited beer! NYU also incorporated Simucase into the prac 1 and 2 experience to accrue some hours. All of that is already incorporated into the tuition, so there's no additional cost. Overall, I think NYU@Speech is a great program. But its quite expensive . I did my postbacc elsewhere (@USU), so I was able to save some money. I also was offered a scholarship from NYU, which helped cut down some cost, but was still a few thousand dollars more expensive than Emerson. Anyways! hope this helps some of you!