Wuglette
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I just got an email from McGill saying that I am on their waitlist, and my status changed on uApply. Does anyone know if McGill will disclose where on the waitlist applicants are?
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When do we think McGill will start making calls? Going back to previous years, it seems like they consistently started making calls the Wednesday of the second week of March? So maybe they could start calling as of March 10th of this week? Ahh! I'm so nervous!
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18 minutes ago, Terre-neuvien said:
Getting that email from Ottawa yesterday saying they had "exciting news", despite me knowing it will still be a few weeks to hear back, got my hopes up unnecessarily to only find their strategic plan for 2021 ?
Haha! The same thing happened to me! My heart literally stopped for a second when I saw the email from Ottawa that was personally addressed to me, and then I was really disappointed when I found out what it really was about! Lol! This waiting period is so painful!
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1 minute ago, onaspeechcrayz said:
Yes, I submitted just for Western. UofT was not accepting a clinical reference.
Also, I would love to get you opinions on this: Do you think schools will till take into account the amount of volunteer experience in making their admission decisions? Or do you think they truly don't care if we have any?
I don't know about the other schools, but I asked UofT directly and they said that clinical experience/volunteering would not have any influence on their admission decisions unfortunately.
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19 minutes ago, tazm said:
For anyone who applied with volunteer hours, did you still get your SLP to write a reference letter?
No.
At first I had misunderstood Western's statement, and I thought that they wouldn't accept references from SLPs at all, and so I lined up my current boss to be my professional reference and used her for all of the schools asking for professional references. I didn't realise until later that I could have still asked an SLP to serve as my professional reference. I am hoping that they don't see this as a bad thing!
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10 hours ago, coco_SLP said:
Hey! I'm just curious, do any of you have any prerequisites in progress? I do and I've been worried that it might affect my chances of getting in, but I'm hoping it won't! Is anyone else in the same boat, and if so, how many in progress courses do you have?
I am currently taking the Child Development prerequisite for UofT and Western. Hopefully they don't penalize us for having a prerequisite in progress. Every school requires so many different prerequisites that I found it pretty much impossible to get all of them done before 4th year!
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3 hours ago, onaspeechcrayz said:
Do you guys remember what the website said the GPA cut off was last year? They had it on their website before but I cant find it anymore.
Also maybe they look at the perquisite grades too? Im not sure, just thinking.
I think I remember reading that the GPA cut off last year was 3.77, but I could be wrong!
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1 minute ago, SLP--2021 said:
Hi everyone! Congrats to everyone who got an interview at Mac!
This may have already been mentioned but did everyone receive confirmation from UofT for their application?
I just searched through my junk and deleted, but maybe I am missing what the email title/email address would be.
Thanks! Let's keep it positive and if we don't make it this year, there is always next ❤️
Hey! No I haven't received anything from UoftT either. From what I can tell from threads from previous years, UoftT doesn't send out emails to confirm our application, and they only email people their student numbers etc. when they offer admission. So I don't think we will hear from them until April 1st.
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1 hour ago, coco_SLP said:
Hey everyone! I received an MMI interview invitation for McMaster via email this morning
so they've started sending them out now!
Congratulations! I also got mine this morning. Is anyone else extremely nervous for the MMIs?
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5 hours ago, 1996slp said:
I am currently a student in the McGill SLP program and would strongly discourage anyone from attending! It has been a massive disappointment and I think people are having much better experiences at other schools. Feel free to message me with any questions!
I am sorry to hear that you aren't having a good experience at McGill!
Are you still in the first year of their program? Anyways, I hope it gets better for you! I appreciate you giving us your feedback, cause these are the types of things we would never know without speaking to someone who is in the program.
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2 hours ago, coco_SLP said:
Wonderful stats everyone, good luck!
My personal rankings keep changing all the time! I think my front two are McGill and UAlberta, followed by McMaster, Western, and Dalhousie in that order. McGill used to be a solid #1 for me, but the more I think about it, the more I worry about the difficulty in finding placements as someone who only has basic French and may have to travel out of province for some of the placements.
What about everyone else? I'd love to hear your choices and reasons for them!
Hey! My top two choices are probably Western and McGill. McGill used to be my top choice as well because I liked the idea of being able to get experience in French placements while still completing my graduate studies in English and I loved the idea of living in Montreal, but after learning how much focus McGill puts on theoretical learning, I think I am leaning more towards Western now. I like that Western has a pediatric focus (I would love to work for a school board in the future) and I really like that they have an on-sight clinic where you can do your first clinical placement. That being said, I still keep going back and forth between McGill and Western as my top choice. My choices after that would be McMaster, Toronto and then Ottawa.
What are everyone else's top choices?
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12 hours ago, NDspeechie said:
I'd love to hear everyones stats
I'm a little antsy with this wait!
Hey! I am also getting really antsy, and I feel like this forum is the only thing keeping me semi-sane throughout this whole process! I would also love to hear about everyone's stats, so here are mine:
Degree: I am currently completing a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Honours Cognitive Science of Language and a Minor in French Studies.
GPA: My ORPAS sGPA and cGPA are 3.98
Volunteering: I have just under 60hrs of volunteering with SLPs and CDAs in various settings (47.5hrs in a speech clinic where I worked with a non-verbal child and an adult with an acquired brain injury; 3.5hrs in a hospital where I observed a videofluoroscopy performed on a stroke patient; 6hrs in a French elementary school with a CDA). I also have 24hrs of related volunteer experience where I helped immigrant elementary-aged children (many of them learning English as a second language) with their homework.
References: I am kinda worried about my academic references, as although I had 5 courses with one of them, she gets asked to write 20+ references each year, so I am worried that her reference letter might be a bit cookie-cutter. And my second academic reference, with whom I only took 2 courses, is only a sessional prof, so I don't know how that will affect it. But, my professional reference is my current boss who has known me for over 8 years, so although it won't be SLP related, I think her reference will be pretty strong.
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8 hours ago, coco_SLP said:
Hey! I'm not sure 100% which stats you're looking for, but I've pasted some things below for me, so if others wanna copy and paste and use a similar template please feel free to
or else do it your own way, that's cool too!
Degree: Undergrad in Linguistics (Concentration in Psycholinguistics and Communication Disorders, minor in Spanish)
GPA: ORPAS subGPA was 3.88, other schools use different scales so 4.05 for Dal, 3.85 for McGill, and 3.84 for UAlberta
GRE: VR - 156 (72nd percentile), QR - 153 (48th percentile), AW – 5.5 (98th percentile)
Experience/Volunteering: Unfortunately, not much SLP related due to Covid but I have experience being a teaching assistant for university courses, research experience by doing an Honours thesis, and volunteer experience writing letters to people in LTC homes, running a campus club for 3+ years, being a leader at a summer camp, and being a member of a club that connects students with disabilities to students from other backgrounds.
References: From professors who have taught me, as well as from those who I’ve worked for as a TA
I'd love to hear everyone else's as well! I'm also getting antsy
Nice stats! Do you mind explaining how McGill calculates GPA? Is it just that they use cGPA instead of sGPA, or is there something else to it? Thanks!
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On 2/10/2021 at 4:30 PM, Wuglette said:
Does anyone know anything about Ottawa's MMI process (when they hold their interviews and when they send out their interview offers)?
Update: I emailed to ask and apparently they no longer do the MMIs at Ottawa (which is a huge relief!) as they have replaced it with the CASper test and the language tests.
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Does anyone know anything about Ottawa's MMI process (when they hold their interviews and when they send out their interview offers)?
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3 minutes ago, nessiespeech said:
Hey guys! Does anyone know when McMaster usually starts sending out interview offers?
Officially, I think they send them out March 2nd. But in last year's thread someone said that they received an MMI offer on February 19th. So hopefully we will hear from them soon!
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Just now, nessiespeech said:
That sounds like a good idea! How do you add a signature?
Go to Account Settings
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56 minutes ago, coco_SLP said:
Hey! Would anyone who's applying this year want to change their signatures to the way that JennSed has, where you put the schools you apply to, and then colour-code the school's responses with red, yellow, or green (rejected, waitlisted, accepted)? I know several threads in previous years have done it and I thought it would be cool to implement it again this year, so people can get a rough idea for who's been accepted with what kind of stats, and give an idea about waitlists, etc. I know acceptances won't begin rolling out for a month or so, but I think it'd be cool to have for when they do start rolling out. I just don't want too be the only one!
Would others wanna do this?
I like that idea!
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7 minutes ago, SLP2020!! said:
Hello! My email said " We are pleased to let you know that your application is considered complete and has been passed onto the school's admissions committee for review." I never got a Dal student number though, strange!
Hi! I was just wondering, has your requirements chart been filled out on the application website?
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14 minutes ago, SLP2020!! said:
I received an email last week confirming that my application for Dal is complete and was sent to the committee for review! I asked the admin roughly how many applications they received this year and she said roughly 200 in total (meaning both SLP and audiology) and they have 39 spots in total (roughly half for SLP and half for audiology).
I've heard they had up to 500 applications in the past so this made me hopeful!
That's nice to hear! Does anyone know if the other schools are receiving more or less applicants than previous years? It'll be interesting to see how covid affects the number of applicants because I can see it going both ways (having volunteer hours removed as a requirement for many schools vs the possibility that school may still not be in person by the fall, etc.).
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1 hour ago, Wugs said:
I was wondering if anyone knew for the 125 invited to do McMaster MMIs, if some decline, do they have a waitlist for potentially more than the 125 to be invited? Or is it 125 max, and whoever wants to do the MMI makes it to the next round?
Hi Wugs! From what I understand from last year's thread, there are people who get waitlisted for the MMI (they notify you if you are on the MMI waitlist), and if someone declines the MMI invite they will invite someone off of the waitlist.
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Thank you CCSLP94 for this insight into your program! I think Western University is probably my top choice when it comes to SLP grad programs. I was just wondering, with covid are you still able to do your clinical placements in person or are you doing teletherapy right now/ did covid limit the amount of placements that were available to students? Thanks in advance!
2021 Canadian SLP Thread
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You should be fine! When I went to accept the waitlist offer it said that I had until April 15th to respond. Good luck!