caterpillar
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Yes to both, for my husband. Spanish bilingual. He plays guitar, piano, drums, (electric) bass... He was in several rock bands in high school and into his early 20s, so he played whatever needed to be played.
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I swear that the reason I had such a good verbal score was because I memorized vocabulary. I'm a strong reader, so the only thing holding me back on the verbal section was the weird vocab words that they use. I'm not sure if memorizing vocab will work for everyone, but it sure worked for me.
This. My husband is an avid reader but didn't feel confident that he'd have the vocabulary to do well on the verbal section. He got the Kaplan New GRE flash cards (i think there are like 500 cards?) and spent months going through them, having me test him on them, etc., until he only had a tiny fraction that he couldn't remember off the top of his head. He said it really helped because a lot of the words ended up on the test, and learning the root origins to so many words enabled him to more intuitively guess the meanings of words he didn't know.
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Does anyone know if PSU offers any funding to their graduate students? I got accepted, but I am out-of-state, so I'm afraid the only way I'd be able to afford it is if I get some amount of funding. Which is depressing because I'd love to go to PSU.
Sometimes they do, but afaik it's very limited. You might try emailing to ask when funding decisions are going to go out.
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I just do not understand why these people agree to write LORs if they can't provide a good reference...it just seems cruel and it's easy enough to say no, isn't it?
I don't either. I suppose it is good, however, that my husband was at least made aware (one way or another, after the fact) of an area of his application package that needed improvement. It still stung following all the rejections, though!
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AH MY FIRST ACCEPTANCE! Idaho State sent their email this afternoon, and I just burst into tears. I didn't even know what school it was, all I saw was "Congratulations" and I went off the wall.
I swear, I'm not usually this crazy...
Congrats!!
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I didn't hear back from western michigan and noticed many people were stating on the admissions forum that they heard
Of their acceptance via e-mail. Well I heard back today and got a decline..wasn't surprised. I'm assuming I got a decline from GVSU because I didn't get an invite for an interview..
I know I need to retake the GRE, but does anyone know of anything else to do to increase my chances next time around?
I think the standard formula is the following:
1) Increase any scores where possible
2) Increase experience in the field
3) Cast a wider net - applying to more schools, less competitive schools, schools in less desirable areas, etc.
I'd also suggest taking a good look at your LOR writers. This is probably not the case for most people, but after my husband was rejected from everywhere last year, he notified his LOR writers as a courtesy. One of them wrote back and strongly suggested that he find someone else to write the LOR next year. I can only imagine what the LOR looked like.
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FINALLY GOT ACCEPTED TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY!!!!! 2nd yr. applying and am ecstatic to be accepted as this was my first choice school!
Congrats!! What a great feeling!
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Retaking classes - often times the admissions committee will consider the new grade to be the "replacement" grade. This is also true of schools if the class is retaken at the same institution. For example, my husband incorrectly dropped a music class in his first term at community college and received an F. He retook the class the next term and received an A - this "replaced" the F and showed to his later bachelors program (and i assume the admissions committee for SLP, too) that the first grade was a mistake he was willing to work hard to overcome. The F does remain on his transcript, however.
If your degree has posted, no, retaking classes won't raise your GPA as calculated by your graduating institution. But for outside admissions committees, who are able to see the whole of your academic record, they'll be able to see that you retook the class and improved your score.
Taking classes and doing well will only help, as you are applying with ALL your transcripts, not just the one where you got your degree. The extra classes my husband took raised his GPA a whole 0.10, which is pretty significant when you're talking about the 3.0-4.0 scale.
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Just received an acceptance email from Redlands!!! I am so excited!!! That also means that I'll be rejecting the offer from Northern Arizona. Good luck to all!
Congrats!!
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Yes, they do. My husband's undergrad GPA for his bachelors was 3.31. With his 4.0 in pre-reqs factored in, his overall GPA was calculated at 3.41 by CSDCAS. I do believe they consider CSD grades specifically separate from the rest of the courses (imagine if someone had a sub-3.0 in CSD but over 3.0 in overall GPA because they took a hundred easy art classes, for example - that would be telling to the admissions committee) but if you haven't already done pre-reqs, they're a great opportunity to bump up your GPA a little.
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Are you and your husband leaning more toward UCA or FHSU?
He's going to be emailing FHSU to check the status of his application for funding. If he didn't get funding at FHSU, I think that will really decide it.
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I got accepted to CSULA! My very first acceptance!
This is my second year applying, and my hard work has finally paid off! Good luck to everyone still waiting!Congrats!!
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I was also accepted to UCA today with an assistantship! It's the cheapest option so far, but I'm not sure it's the best for me. I have some serious researching and decision making to do within the next two weeks.
Is anybody who was accepted to UCA planning on attending? Do you have any additional information about the college or the area? Thanks everybody!Seconding this... After discussion with my husband, we are pretty divided between our options (though fairly confident that he will be withdrawing from the waitlist at PSU). More information on the area/school would be fantastic!
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Got accepted to my first program ever today! I'm on cloud nine!!
) Congrats!!
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Arkansas is pretty nice, UCA is about 45 minutes from where I'm doing my undergrad. It's got a Panera bread really close, but that's all I remember really..shopping plaza in town, and a Dunkin Donuts! (one of three in the state). (Only been to Conway once) but there's lots of nice hiking and stuff to do around here, too, it's less than an hour from Petit Jean State Park (has a waterfall). I mean, I know you pick the school for the school, but those are just random things about the area
This is good information, though! Neither of us has been to Arkansas, so while my husband will I'm sure be very busy on campus, the kids and I will need to find ways to occupy ourselves in the meantime.
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CONGRATS!!!!
Bye Bye Cali for SURE SURE!!!! Thank you!! And yes, I can pretty confidently say that we're leaving California this summer.
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@Caterpillar
CONGRATULATONS!!! So excited for you both. Conway is a nice area... we've been out there a few times to visit family
The campus is good sized but in a small town feel. It is pretty up there as well.Now you have decisions!!!
Thank you! This was quite unexpected. Decisions, indeed!
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Just received an acceptance email to the University of Central Arkansas with offer of an assistantship to help pay first year tuition. I will be turning this offer down since I've already accepted another school's offer so hopefully that will open up a spot for someone. Good luck to those who also applied to UCA!!!
Congrats SweetPea!
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OMG! My husband was accepted to UCA as well, also with an assistantship! He just forwarded me the message as I was reading your post.
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So we are in the last week of March and I don't know about you guys, but EVERY school outside of California (notoriously late, usually April decisions) BETTER send out their decisions this week!
I agree!! I had a very vivid dream last night that my husband got accepted to UCA... Maybe it was a portent about decisions being released today.
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I've been waiting on a reply from Texas Women's University. I called them in February to confirm my application was complete and it was. Now they have told me they already emailed those who have been accepted and waitlisted the week of spring break. They sent rejection letters last week. So I told them I have not received anything then they emailed saying sorry to to inform you but we have no record of you applying to the program. Omg I am breaking down right now!
Whaaat?! How does that even happen? I'm so sorry.
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Maybe if the societal norm changed so that men felt more comfortable working in elementary schools, that would be different (but that's a subject for another day)...
I'll throw out there that many men do feel comfortable working in school settings - not just in SLP, but in general. For example, my husband has only worked in the schools (preschool through high school level) since he graduated in 2007. One of his LOR writers was a male SPED teacher he worked under. Both the other SPED aides he works with currently are male, and several of his professional references are men. While education is a female dominated field as well, I do think it's a bit much to assume that if more men were involved in SLP, there wouldn't be jobs for female SLPs in medical settings or that the men would flock solely to medical settings.
2014 SLP Admissions Thread
in Speech-Language Pathology Forum
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Just a note for anyone lurking who was accepted to Fort Hays State - my husband emailed the department and was told that funding offers won't be made until after the April 15th acceptance deadline.