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Good question! I think this will depend A LOT on your study habits. It is possible to work part time, but I wouldn't recommend more than 10-15 hours a week if you want to stay sane or sleep. IF you don't procrastinate AND can work without being easily distracted, then you can have some time in the evenings and weekends.
I'm the type that procrastinates beginning assignments AND gets distracted when there's conversation/TV/music on. I try to do a lot of work at school (I typically stay till 5 even when we don't have class). I then go home, procrastinate/watch TV/try to work and get distracted for a few hours, then buckle down and do more work for a couple hours. Because I stretch my work out, I don't usually have whole days without schoolwork, but other people work smarter than I do and are able to take weekend trips and work more than I do.
On the other hand, one girl in my cohort puts way too much work into her assignments and regularly stays up till 3 am. Don't worry though, she is not typical. The latest I've stayed up doing work was 1 am, and that's because I was watching the World Series while trying to write a paper, which didn't work too well!

I have spent many hours looking at GradCafe seeing is there was hope for a low gpa to get into grad school for Speech Therapy. I am beyond happy to announce that I got accepted right out of undergrad into Adelphi this up coming fall semester. My gpa is a 2.9 and pretty average GRE scores. If you are worried and stressing out, I promise it will come to you! Look up schools with higher acceptance rates and play a numbers game!

No, I don't mind sharing, though I'm not proud of all my stats!  
Undergrad GPA (2003): 2.9 (I refuse to say this number out loud, ha!)
Bachelor's: Spanish major, French minor
GRE 2019: 160 Verbal, 153 Quant, 3.5 Writing (that hurt)
Professional Background: working with children in a preschool and Montessori setting
Personal experience with my own two kids, one with speech therapy and the other with PT/Early Intervention

I don’t think it’s unprofessional. I’ve heard people who actually were accepted and the schools forgot to notify them so it’s always good to be safe than sorry! 

I have emailed schools about when I would hear back from them, and I have been accepted to those schools. So, I don't think it really affects it. 

I know I’m anxious to know the decision already. I wasn’t sure if calling would maybe hurt me in any way but I think I might give them a call a few days before the 15th and see. Thanks! 

For me there was only one school I even considered going to due to financial and personal reasons. I felt that focusing on one application really allowed me to be the best candidate possible for that program. And I was accepted!

Good luck to you too! Hopefully nothing but good news going forward!

honestly I decided a cheaper state school, as long as it's ASHA accredited they're all the same in my eyes. I'm leaving grad school with less than $20,000 in debt for 5 semesters, feels like a win to me. 

I submitted it on the deadline (Feb 6th) and got my acceptance by email within the same week- no interview. I declined the offer because of the deadline issue. I talked to the program director recently and said the class was mostly filled up- but she could have been lying to pressure me to commit. Hope this helps

I think you're smart to wait it out a little longer ?
@hiimkhanh Confused by the downvote. Did I say something wrong? lol.