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    Masters in Speech Language Pathology

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  1.    Owl.on.a.Slide reacted to a post in a topic: 2023 Canada Admissions SLP thread
  2. AtBatts
    Current SLP student, got in last cycle. I don't know how good of a source I am for this, but I'll list a couple things that might help. In actuality, we don't know what qualities got us in the program. Schools aren't looking for a specific degree as almost everyone comes from some slightly different undergrad. Everyone has had some sort of volunteer experience, mostly with SLPs in a lot of different settings. I found that working in different settings helped improve my application... worked a lot in geriatrics for my first cycle, but the year after I was lucky enough to shadow a pediatric SLP as well as work on material prep. I also felt my references were stronger this time around versus last year, but there's no way in actually knowing haha. And obviously sGPA matters a decent amount, more for some schools then others, but I wouldn't worry about that though. Do whatever you can to get it high this semester, but don't worry after that. I thought my GPA was low when I applied compared to others on the forum, but I guess it was good enough! DMs are open if needed, but I don't check this much at all so may not respond super quick lol Good luck
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  4. AtBatts
    dmed you
  5. AtBatts
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/525461565667529 That's the facebook group! Once you join that I'll add you to the group chat!
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  8. AtBatts
    When I didn't get in last year, I took extra courses in the fall, but if you can summer courses would have been smarter, just to give yourself more time to move that sGPA. I took 3 courses; not all relevant tbh tho. I took a first year physics course (as a pre-req for another program I wanted to get into), a course called English words (basically etymology of English) and intro to microbiology. None had really anything to do with my program, but they were courses that I knew that I could do well (was worried about physics but that went well!). Importantly, take a lighter course load so that you can put in the extra work and get those really high grades. Ideally, I think it's always smart to take SLP related courses, but if you can't if you don't have prereqs, just take whatever you can excel in. Specifically some interesting SLP related courses (sorry they are uoft course codes) - JLP315 Language Acquisition (Offered in the summer too at UofT and it's basically development psych but a focus on language) - JLP374 Psych of Language - LIN203 English Words (Wasn't personally a huge fan, but you can do well... only thing that is SLP related I guess is natural sound changes over time which was interesting) -JLS473 Adult Speech Disorders (Did not take it, but the prof as of the last couple years is good and she is very interesting) -JLS472 Child Speech Disorders Also, finally if you do well in your current semester, that will likely bring up your sGPA quite a bit for next cycle. Hope this helps
  9.    speechiestudent reacted to a post in a topic: 2022 Canada Admissions SLP thread
  10. AtBatts
    Here's a UofT group if there's not already one. Once people join I can transfer it over to a gc https://www.facebook.com/groups/525461565667529/
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    I hope you get in, you deserve it! Thanks so much for starting this forum!
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  25. AtBatts
    No email as of yet, I suspect it'll be in the morning but I checked on ORPAS
  26. AtBatts
    Just wanted to say I got into UofT, rejected from Western unfortunately, which is a bummer but happy to go to my first choice. Best luck to you all and congrats!
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  29. AtBatts
    I'm not too sure about offers since I got a rejection last year lol, but Western is right at midnight and I woke up to my UofT email at around 9 in the morning. Either way tho, accepted or rejected, its a pretty quick process.
  30. AtBatts
    What I did is I emailed my uni registrar that I did my undergrad in and they registered me as a non-degree student. This made it so I only paid on a course by course basis. Did unfortunately make it so that I could only enroll in courses after everyone else, but a lot of the courses I wanted were still available. This was at UofT, but I'm sure that it would be similar at most places even if it's been a year since your undergrad.
  31. AtBatts
    I have no idea when it changed, saw it Monday tho, was just randoming checking acorn and saw it. I do not see a list of courses it's just the tab saying invited. Could easily be the default or some glitch in their system tbh.... ^Yup, Acorn is basically what UofT does to do course selection. Only reason I have access to it is because I did my undergrad at UofT. And same last year, I didn't get any response to sign up for anything at UofT; just the rejection letter lol
  32. AtBatts
    Yup see the same thing, didn’t see it last year. looking into it now. No definite answers tho
  33. AtBatts
    This might sound strange, and hopefully nothing to stress about, but does anyone from UofT, who also applied to UofT see a second tab on their acorn profile saying 2022-2023 MHSC- Speech and Lang Path. I can't remember if this happened last year as well, so I'm freaking out a bit cause it's not April 1st yet. DM me if that's more comfortable for anyone.
  34. AtBatts
    Yes, I think it's 5 years. The only accommodation they make I believe is regards to the academic reference letters where if you were out of school for 5+ years you only are required 1 academic reference letter instead of the 2. At the very least, I think experience isn't completely over looked at schools like UofT and Western cause there were a somewhat wide range of GPAs that got accepted, plus they still asked for experiences even if it wasn't SLP related.
  35. AtBatts
    That makes sense that it is early next week. Last year, the 15th was on a Monday so perhaps it is something similar this time around. Good luck to you guys
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