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Probably so. I feel bad because one of my good friends also applied to UNC for SLP. She was one of the first people I told and was sooooo excited. I just saw on her Facebook that she got an ominous "you will be contacted" message as well. UGH. I wish more people could be admitted to these programs. I feel that the majority of us are qualified and deserve it. Oh, and for the person that just asked my stats: I have a 3.98 GPA in the major and overall and am on track to graduate from the honors program at my school. GRE was 1270 (590 V, 680 Q) with 5.5 on the writing. I've worked in a research lab for 5 semesters (this is my 5th) and done a couple other little research things on the side in the College of Education.

Congratulations! I got my first acceptance today too and I am with you...it was the best feeling ever. Suggestions for celebration: grab some friends and go get a few much-deserved drinks (or if you aren't into drinking, choose another delicious food or non-alcoholic drink of choice. In my case, I'd go with Red Mango fro-yo).

My parents are the exact same way. "Of course you'll get in! You have good grades and a good GRE score and you work hard." Um, Mom and Dad, it's not quiiiiiiiiite that simple since there are about 200-300 other applicants each of my programs that are vying for the same 20+ spots. Of course, my argument is somewhat invalid now that I got my first acceptance today. When I told my mom, the first thing she said after "Congratulations!" was "You really need to have more confidence in yourself and your abilities. I knew you'd get in all along." *headdesk*

I have a friend in audiology that got into Indiana University's AuD program and received an assistanceship. Another of my friends also had an interview with Ball State. That's all I know of so far (I'm in SLP, not audiology).

On my "to-do" list page or my student service center, under my status it says "Click here to view your decision in a new window". When I click, it opens a new tab in Firefox with a page that has a little acceptance ditty (which includes the promise of an official letter sent in the mail) and then the option to accept or decline their offer of admission. I am with you guys on the "I just want to know now" thing. I looked at my decision window through my fingers because I figured it wasn't good news and, quite frankly, I would rather be told on an email/website that I can close and never look at again than a physical letter.

Just got good news from UNC. I am ecstatic! I was sure that if I didn't get a phone call, I was waitlisted/rejected. Anyone else who's waiting on a decision, be sure to keep checking your application website!

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Hey, my mom's Canadian! So I guess technically I'm half Canadian? haha I dunno. I love Canada. My grandparents still live up there and I visit from time to time. I also applied to UT-Austin! (which I now realize is obvious thanks to my signature, haha)

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I guess that's true, but I feel like international students also have a slight edge because they could add to the diversity of the program that a lot of these schools claim to look for. An international student is a lot more glitzy than a little Indiana farm girl I agree though...I, too, am hoping for a "trickling" of acceptances. I haven't heard from UNC at all since the "yay, you submitted your app!" confirmation email in November. My status hasn't changed on the website either.

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For those of my friends who are waiting/have heard from UNC...I looked at their profile of admitted MS/AuD students. I didn't realize that they admitted such a high percentage of North Carolina/UNC students! Maybe I am just naive but I'm an out-of-stater and, based on that profile, I feel like I don't stand much of a chance.

Arg, don't say that... still waiting for a call.

Much appreciated! My anxiety about the wait for responses has been temporarily displaced by my anxiety about my pediatric aural rehabilitation case study write-ups, due tomorrow at 7AM (before our field trip to an oral school and a school for the deaf--something to look forward to ).

I need to stay away from the results page for awhile, methinks. Responses are FINALLY starting to go up for my schools/programs and it's making me crazy with impatience and anxious that, even though people are getting news today, I have somehow been rejected because I haven't been called/emailed/sent a letter yet.

Congratulations! Crossing my fingers that I get good news from them soon too.

Ugh...Vanderbilt is that school for me. Right before the deadline they sent out an email checklist with everything that I hadn't turned in for their application yet. The last sentence of it was something like, "Please be patient when waiting for a response if you contact us, as we have over 400 applicants this year and would like to give the utmost attention to each one."

Meeeeeee tooooooo (to the UNC site comment). Is it just me or has their site had HORRIBLE problems this app season. When I was filling out the academic background info (with all my prereq class info, etc), it decided to have an error just after I spent 20 minutes perfecting everything. GUH. I was not happy.

In speech-language pathology, most schools just want you to punch the 1000 point line. Some of the more competitive and highly ranked schools might even ask for 1100, which I don't consider to be outrageously high or difficult for anyone to achieve with studying. Even still, people with below 1000 get accepted and people with way above 1000 get rejected. In this field, at least, it's about WAY more than GRE scores. I even had a professor on the admissions committee of the department at my school tell me that the GRE takes last priority in his consideration of applicants. Personal statements and recs came first for him. Everyone's different and every school's different and every field is different.

I check my email far too much for my own good (but that's just me being me, not due to grad schools) and I have started checking my mailbox every day (usually I go 2+ weeks since I hardly get mail anyway). I check Gradcafe usually once or twice daily. I have been looking at the UNC website since someone got their decision back.

Woo hoo! Congrats to you! I know my school has a campus career center where you can do mock job/grad school interviews and get some feedback on your answers, etc. Not sure if your school has something similar but if you have time before the interview it's worth a look, just to get some polish. (I know personally I am not the best interviewer so that is how I would prepare!) Best of luck!

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