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Yes they have sent out waitlist offers

There are still 16/62 open seats in all of the classes. So unless people haven’t registered for classes yet, there should still be some waitlist movement.

I got off the waitlist and was accepted to UBC today!

I applied with a 3.91 sub-GPA. You can always take extra classes to boost your GPA. During my undergrad I took a few online classes through Athabasca University and they were all super easy to get an A+ in!

I was accepted to Western and waitlisted at Mac! It’s nice that they actually give you a ranking at McMaster!

@CSD I also thought the Facebook groups were for students who’ve already accepted their offers. I personally will not join a group until I accept an offer, but if joining a group helps someone else make their decision, then that’s okay too

I’m still waiting for my portal to update. Mine still says prescreening, but now there’s an offer response due date that wasn’t there before

I got accepted to the U of A!! Last year I was waitlisted and felt so discouraged. If you don’t get accepted this year, just keep trying and don’t give up!

Hey! Where did you get the stats for UBC? Their website says they get between 120-150 applicants

I was planning to apply to programs in the US this year, but decided not to once I calculated how it expensive it would be as an international student. I agree that thinking about the money is stressful. I know some schools have part time TA positions that can help cut down tuition and there are scholarships for international students too. I personally couldn't imagine spending that much money to attend the master's program in the US, so I will just keep working and applying to Canadian schools until I get accepted.

I’ve collected resources from friends who completed MMIs for med school. I’m also going through practice questions and what I remember from last year and thinking about how I would answer those questions with the knowledge I have now.

Last year I was told I was on the waitlist at the end of March. No they do not send out letters to people on the waitlist once the quota is filled. You are not told how many people are on the waitlist or where you are ranked on the waitlist. All you are told is to “rest assured” that they will contact you if your name rises to the top - this could happen anytime up to September. I didn’t receive a formal rejection until October.

Yes I contacted them. They will start looking at the applications next week and then offers will be sent out by April 15th. They weren't sure about the exact timeline yet, so it could be sooner than that.

My U of A application says complete, but it says the due date is March 10, 2020. Does anyone know what this due date is for? I can't find anything on their website

I was offered an interview with McMaster! I wasn’t expecting an email until March 2nd, so it was a nice surprise

I went to the MMIs last year and a few people said they had 3.80 or 3.81 sGPAs, so it wasn't a 3.87. Plus they could be even lower than that if that's what they were admitting. Who knows what it will be this year though.

Two years ago my friend was accepted to the U of A mid-February. Last year I called their department mid-February asking when they expected to send out offers and they said they were sending them out later than usual because of a change of roles happening at the time. So maybe there's a chance we could find out earlier again this year.

I'm pretty sure I emailed them and they deleted my old transcript, so then I had the option to upload a new one on my application.

Yes you’re able to do that. You just need to let them know when you updated it. I did that last year.

I have a question for the Western application. For the volunteer experiences we aren't supposed to include any paid experiences right? So we don't include our relevant work experiences or research assistant experiences? I find this very odd. I have a 40 hour per week practicum right now where I literally run speech-language therapy sessions, but I can't include this because I'm technically not "volunteering" my time? Also in previous threads I saw that people included observation hours for volunteer experiences. I really don't understand how observing is considered volunteering if that's the only thing they did.

The fact that you have a different educational background is probably a huge advantage for your applications. They want people from diverse backgrounds to bring in different experiences, so you'll stand out compared to all the other linguistics degrees. However, I've been told by different universities that having prerequisite classes in progress is quite a disadvantage. They rather take people who've already finished the pre-requisites because then they can already predict their potential in the program. How much the universities weigh direct experiences depends on the program. McMaster only considers sub-GPA and interview scores, so as long as your GPA is high enough you'll be guaranteed an interview there.

Hi everyone! I'm a Canadian pursuing Speech-Language Pathology and I applied to a few schools in Canada this year. Unfortunately, Canada is extremely competitive so I was only waitlisted. I have a BA in Linguistics and Psychology, a 3.91GPA, and lots of relevant work, research, and volunteer experiences. I'm considering to apply to some US schools next year. I've done a bit of research and it looks like I'd have to complete an entire post-baccalaureate year before even applying for the Master's program (since my degree is not in Speech Sciences). I am hesitant to do this since I worked so hard to obtain a 3.91 GPA and I'm not even guaranteed entrance into the program after taking another year of classes. I was wondering if anyone knows of any schools in the US where a linguistics degree is sufficient to apply directly into the Master's program? Or any schools where a 3.91 GPA might be good enough?

Could you send me your stats as well?

There’s no set grading scale at my university, so I doubt it would be converted. It just shows up as a B+ on my transcript. A 90 is typically an A- though, but for this class you needed a 91 for an A- because class average needed to be around a 1.7

I received a 90 (B+) which probably hindered my applications.