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Andreamia

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  1. I received my first and only SLP graduate program acceptance back in April and am very excited. However, my husband was also accepted to med school so we relocated about an hour from my school. An hour commute (all expressway) there and back sounds dreadful to me, but you gotta do what you gotta do... and it could be worse. At least I was accepted and have a school to go to! For that I am thankful. Anyone else have to sacrifice and do really long commutes in grad school? For those of you who have done it, how much of an impact do you think it will have on my time during the program? Any advice?
  2. The school I applied to last year does not take scores from the GRE so they rely very heavily on LOR. The first year I applied to their grad school I chose not to waive my rights so I could read my letters. It's not that I didn't hold confidence in my recommenders. It just doesn't feel right "waiving my rights" to anything that involves my future. I felt I deserved to know what they wrote or didn't write. The two from my professors were quite good and I was very happy with them. However, I later realized that my third letter from my employer (I work in a hospital setting) may have hurt my chances a little. While it was a very good letter they are looking for recommenders who know the field and can vouch for your true potential as an slp. I had known my two instructors quite well through class, clinic and working at a camp for children with autism. Unfortunately for me though, I'm not a very good brown noser and didn't know the rest of my professors very well to ask for my third letter this year. Instead, I job shadowed an SLP in the hospital setting who I had previously known through an acquaintance. It was a good decision and I'm confident she wrote me a nice letter this year. When you shadow for 8 hours a day a few days a week on your own with the SLP I feel like they get to know you more on a personal level (much more so than some of the instructors). I know job shadowing seems like something you do at the beginning of your undergrad, not at the end.. but I think it really helped me with this and there are so many areas of the profession I haven't had the liberty to see yet. Also, it's another extra perk to add to your application. This is my second year applying and this time I chose to waive my rights. I honestly don't feel like it would have made a difference last year as one instructors on the review committee told me it wouldn't have. However, I'm applying to more schools this year and I can't say all other universities would feel the same way about waiving rights. My two instructors basically informed me they would be using the same letters, so I know they will be very good. I hope changing my recommender on my third letter will make the difference!
  3. Some schools do not care so much about the GRE as others, especially in the SLP grad program. One of the schools I'm applying to does not even require it. My scores are (480Q and 490V, 4.0W). I took it twice and my score from last year was worse. The GRE is such a poor representation of how a student will perform in grad school... I had one of the lowest scores in quantitative and have A's in all my college math classes for example (yes, it's a good prestigious university that provides an excellent education). It irritates me when people post that 1100, 1200, etc. are terrible scores because they are NOT for this program. Atleast, for the majority of SLP schools anyway. Maybe it's because I'm applying to schools that are not in the top ten... Not sure. But maybe some of the posters on here shouldn't stress themselves trying to apply to schools beyond their reach. It's not the end of the world to apply to a program closer to one's potential. As long as we get accepted right? Grad school is just one of the beginning steps to the rest of our career.
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