MadisonMachelle

Why is it that even after interviewing, schools take so long to get back to you? What are they doing in that time? I just feel like once they have reviewed all applications and have interviewed everyone they wanted to, it should only take a quick discussion to decide who to accept. 

Firstly, congratulations on your acceptances! 
I was born and raised in California and decided to move to Texas for college (undergrad). A con to this and to going to grad school out of state as well, is paying out of state tuition. If you're not well off OR don't want to take out a considerable amount of loans, this can be a deal breaker. Each state is different in their rules for out-of-state (Texas is very strict about theirs) tuition. I was fortunate to receive a waiver during my time in school in Texas and was granted in-state tuition but this won't happen for everyone. So long story short, out of state tuition is a big con.
However, a pro is, like you said, a "once in a lifetime experience" and can be really fun--especially if you like exploring new places and opportunities. If money isn't too much of an issue or if you're able to secure a scholarship, I'm all for going out of state!!
For grad school, I decided to stay in Texas because I worked hard to earn in-state tuition and didn't want to deal with that again somewhere else.
Hope this helps!

I posted this elsewhere but thought that it would be helpful here too:
Your best bet is to try and study REALLY hard for the GRE or take some online courses to bolster your current GPA. If you don't want to take any additional courses I would recommend looking into non west-coast schools, specifically private schools. They are notorious for accepting people with lower GPA's but the catch is that they are typically more expensive since they are private and hence offer more spots. 
Also I'd recommend looking at EdFind (https://find.asha.org/ed#sort=relevancy)
From what I found these are schools where a very low GPA (2.5) will be considered:
-Francis Marion University 
-Montclair State University
-Xavier University of Louisiana

I hope so too haha! That was last year so fingers crossed right!!

That makes sense! I know that one of my professors said that SIUE prefers to look at their own students first but it probably is because of requirements & preparation. Also congrats to your friends on Boulder! It is a fantastic university and I hope to get in as well!

As someone who has worked as an SLPA in the schools and private practice for the most part no one cares where you got your degree or how "prestigious" the school you went to was. They just care if you have your CCCs which you obtain after you get your masters in SLP regardless of what ranking the school has. What really matters is your CFY if you want to get into medical.
 

I hope this does not affect your admission to the program. I would call and follow up so they know what happened.

I have seen students with about 10% of your accomplishments get into great schools. Make sure to cast a wide net with grad schools, as much as you can afford. I applied to 10 and it cost me about $1200-$1500 but it was worth it. ASHA Ed Find is a great website to find schools with certain requirements and you'd be surprised how low some average GPA & GRE scores are. You are 100% fine and all of your qualifications would most certainly turn some heads. If you have any questions you can ask me! But relax, don't stress, & enjoy your senior year!

You'll be 100% fine applying to competitive schools if you get a decent GRE with all of the experiences and the high GPA you have.

That sounds amazing! Google tends to be your best friend with this stuff?
A quick search gave me these programs (blurbs following).
North Carolina Central University: "In addition to receiving top scores for Praxis exam pass rates, employment rates among recent graduates and on-time completion rates, we love North Carolina Central University because it’s home to a fully accredited clinic: the NCCU Speech and Hearing Clinic. Communications disorder graduate students here enjoy a variety of opportunities for specialized experience through the Assistive Technology for Infants and Preschoolers Program, the Augmentative and Alternative Communication Assessment and Consultation Clinic, and the Bilingual Clinic." 
Louisiana State University- Baton Rouge: "At LSU, SLP grad students get an unrivaled learning experience through flipped classrooms, simulated learning, interprofessional clinics, and will soon also get first hand exposure to telepractice. Students here learn to work with eye-tracking equipment, video stroboscopy, and state of the art augmentative and alternative communication devices. In fact, just last year the department invested $82,000 to update it’s ACC equipment. LSU grad students routinely present original research at state and national conferences and have a track record for taking home awards and scholarships. This program has it all."
San Francisco State University: "The purpose of Project Building Bridges is to prepare 60 fully credentialed Speech Language Pathologists to work effectively with culturally and linguistically diverse children with significant disabilities and augmentative communication needs, ages birth to 21. Project scholars will complete a Master’s degree in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences in a two-year time frame, with a concentration in AAC and a focus on cultural and linguistic diversity. Scholar competencies to be acquired include: (a) culturally responsive AAC assessment; (b) culturally responsive AAC intervention; (c) collaborative teaming; and (d) development of AAC applications to support the language and literacy skills of culturally and linguistically diverse children and youth....The project will use evidence-based curricula and pedagogy carefully coordinated with substantial, mentored field experiences. The M.S. concentration in AAC will include: 1) two graduate seminars in AAC assessment and intervention; 2) an on campus clinic with a focus on diversity; 3) a one-week summer camp for children who use AAC; and 4) a school internship in a high need community agency or school serving children with AAC needs. 
Penn State University: "The AAC community at Penn State is one of the largest AAC-focused efforts in the world, with a wide range of  research activities, coursework,  and clinical experiences. Students at Penn State have the opportunity to: • participate in graduate level coursework on  AAC taught by nationally recognized faculty, •  assist in research projects designed to improve the lives of individuals with complex communication needs, and • provide clinical services to  individuals with complex communication needs  in clinical and community settings. Penn State students also have participated in our Global AAC Initiative, and worked with AAC teams in Mexico, South Africa, Eastern Europe, India, and China."
Nova Southeastern: not a blurb, but they have Carole Zangari (author of prAACticalAAC.org) as a faculty member (!!!!) and she is AMAZING with all things AAC. And she runs a lab there. i don't know much about the program, but if I met her, I'd be seriously star-struck?.
Temple University: Has its Institute on Disabilities, which hosts this amazing program during the summer for teens(?) using AAC. "Augmentative Communication and Empowerment Supports, or "ACES," is a program for young adults who use communication technology (speech generating devices or "SGD") transitioning from school to work, to help develop and refine their communication, including computer access and use for daily living/job skills." They stay on campus and I'm pretty sure the CSD students are the volunteers. In general, Temple has the Pennsylvania’s Initiative on Assistive Technology (PIAT), which provides training, AAC evaluations, device demonstrations, and AT consultations led by the CSD department. If I remember correctly, there is a specialty clinic that you can do as a grad student specifically in AAC, plus faculty are involved in AAC research. 
Some programs have AAC certification listed as for practicing SLPs, so I don't know if you'd be able to be certified as a grad student, but it would be worth a shot to ask the program directly. See the University of Memphis as an example.
Certain programs, like the University of Iowa and George Washington University, require you to have rotations in a variety of subfields of SLP, and the AAC track is one of those rotations. Other programs just have faculty members who are doing exceptional research about AAC (the three that I looked at are at Northeastern University, Temple University, Emerson University, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), so if there is a researcher who you know of from articles or whatever else who specializes in AAC, it would be great to see if they are doing research through a university, and if you would then be able to do research with that professor. If you're part of ASHA, you can check out who is writing and publishing in the AAC SIG. (I did that with literacy, the area I want to concentrate in, and now some of the people I've looked up to as top scholars in my area will be my professors in the fall... I'm seriously still swooning.?) A lot of the program websites are not the best and most up-to-date, so researching specific people in the field can be really helpful, and can lead you back to the school they work at and the programs they have at that grad school. 
Editing to add this reddit link I just found with additional programs to add to this list. Worth checking out. 
Best of luck on your search!
 

Definitely take it with Hall and I'd recommend doing the 8 wk plan since it's not THAT much work and since there's 2+ assignments each week you're always on top of it. My other class is a 16 wk option and its soooo slow that sometimes I almost forget to do assignments. 

I want to say it was around $1600 which was a little under $300/unit fo two classes which is actually really cheap in comparison to other online schools that do it by cost of credit rather than semester tuition 

I don't believe that you'll receive an email if you don't get an interview, but I think you would get one if you are rejected.
Maybe you're in the second wave of students and they haven't sent you the interview email yet because they haven't finished scheduling the first round.Keep your hopes high, but expectations low. I hope that helps.

im also applying to CSU long beach !!! good luck !!!

To all of the posters that mention how expensive the online schools are, I HIGHLY suggest you apply to ENMU because classes are significantly cheaper and they are also an accredited school with lots of alumni, 100% praxis pass-rate and employment in the 90+percentiles! 
I'm taking some online courses through them and liked them so much that I'm applying to their distance program. The only fall back is that they require you to be on campus for ~4 months. 

I think it depends on the school! I only had to interview at one school and they were willing to organize a video interview - it must've gone fine because that's where I'm attending. I do feel like it was a disadvantage for me (I feel much more comfortable and confident interviewing in person) and things like wifi connection could play a negative role, but I'd imagine most reasonable programs would understand that flying out for one thirty minute interview isn't feasible for most people - and if they don't get that, do you really want to go there?

It's the reality, people are hoping for a miracle that isn't going to happen.

Whether or not they want to accept the truth, that's on them. But I'm not going to sugarcoat it and say "Don't worry! I'm sure there's a chance you'll get a waitlist!" When there's no chance of it happening.

Congratulations EMDSpeech! 
I was accepted to NYU and Emerson last year and thought I would reach out and let you know that if you can explain why you believe that you should be awarded financial aid/scholarships, they might offer you a $5,000 grant. This isn't for each semester or year, but it is a start and could help you decide
Best luck!

Congratulations EMDSpeech! 
I was accepted to NYU and Emerson last year and thought I would reach out and let you know that if you can explain why you believe that you should be awarded financial aid/scholarships, they might offer you a $5,000 grant. This isn't for each semester or year, but it is a start and could help you decide
Best luck!

Hello everyone! I have already sent in all of my applications for Fall 2020 admittance and wanted to add my schools to this growing list! I noticed that people included their majors, GPA, GRE Scores, as well as a color key so I did the same. Good luck to everyone applying!
Major: Human Rehabilitation Services with a Concentration in Communication Sciences and Disorders
GPA: Overall 3.80, Major 3.90 GRE Scores: 155 V 157 Q 5.0 AW
Applying to: Boston University, Emerson College, MGH Institute, Northeastern University, Worcester State University
Applied, Interview, Accepted, Waitlisted, Rejected 

Your best bet is to try and study REALLY hard for the GRE or take some online courses to bolster your current GPA. 
If you don't want to take any additional courses I would recommend looking into non west-coast schools, specifically private schools. They are notorious for accepting people with lower GPA's but the catch is that they are typically more expensive since they are private and hence offer more spots. 
Also I'd recommend looking at EdFind (https://find.asha.org/ed#sort=relevancy)
From what I found these are schools where your GPA (2.5) will be considered:
-Francis Marion University 
-Montclair State University
-Xavier University of Louisiana

Take Physics with Andersen at ENMU. It was a walk in the park. 

I would urge you to take Intro to Physics and take it credit/no credit. I recently have been talking to admissions about the new 2020 changes and they are getting more and more strict about what they are accepting. 
An alternative would be to reach out to the schools that you are applying to and make sure that they will accept this class as an alternative.
 
Good luck!!!

Good afternoon (depending on your time zone)!
How are you all doing?
How are you occupying yourself during the agonizing wait for results? Tips for others?
What's something positive and awesome that has happened to you this week?

I just completed this program and it was a great experience compared to other programs out there! Aural Rehab was one of my favorites! Dr. Hall is great and her lectures are very informative. I did not read the textbook much because I got a lot of info from her lectures & videos honestly but skimming through the textbook won't hurt either. I took this as an 8 week class because it was not one my difficult classes. My advice is to purchase a planner (if you don't have one already) and write out all of your assignments & due dates and that's the easiest way that I was able to stay on track while working full-time.