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The extended master's is their three year program where you do pre-reqs first and then jump in to the grad program. It's basically for those who haven't completed their pre-reqs yet.

Hi! I just finished my USU second degree this fall and I went ahead and applied to some spring schools. I applied to Fresno State, Kansas State, U of South Dakota and App State. Got into all of them except Appalachian. I have heard from multiple people that University of Pacific prefers students to have taken courses in person at an institution. In fact, I emailed their program director, and he told me that while taking online pre-reqs doesn't necessarily hurt your application, if they are looking at two students who have equally good applications, but one took pre-reqs online and the other took them in the traditional setting, they would choose the traditional student. As for the CSU's, I have also heard that they really favor their own students. One of my fellow USU students who went to Fresno said that she was the only one in her cohort who hadn't gone to Fresno as an undergrad.

Send your best verbal score for sure! I did a lot of searching for GRE scores since I had a really bad score as well. My verbal score was in the average range, but my quant was well below average! It probably made a difference that I applied to spring admission schools, but with those scores I got into 3 of the 4 I applied to. I didn't have any research experience, just a little bit of volunteering and job experience working as a caregiver for a disabled woman. Not sure how I would have fared if I had just decided to apply for fall, but it is possible to get in with low scores!

Yeah, I would think the 3.4 is more the exception. I applied for the extended master's programs at CSUEB and SJSU last year with a 3.9 GPA and I was waitlisted at both of them. I was accepted at Fresno, though.

Hello! I'm going to be making the move out to Kansas from California for grad school and I have never stepped foot in Kansas before. While I am excited to start the program and experience a new part of the country, I have basically lived in the Bay Area my entire life (except for a stint at UCLA for undergrad). As my move date gets closer, I am growing more anxious and sad about leaving my friends/family/boyfriend behind. I'm trying to stay positive, but I haven't been getting much sleep since I keep dreaming about moving and whatnot. What did you guys do to combat those feelings before you moved? Thanks!

So I took the old GRE earlier in the summer and got a 570V 420Q. So mad that I was only 10 points away from 1000! I was originally going to retake it at the end of this month, but I have been so swamped with school and work that I have barely been studying. I feel like if I retake it soon, I'll only score marginally better than better and be out $150. I am applying to speech language pathology programs, and I know that they place more of an emphasis on the verbal, but I'm rather embarrassed by the quantitative. If I did retake the exam, I would only have 19 days left to study, maybe a week more if I try to test early November, but some of the application deadlines are in January and November is starting to cut it a bit close. Since alot of schools want you to have a combined minimum of 1000, do you think 990 is close enough that they will basically consider it to be 1000, or should I try to retake it? Thanks!

From what I've seen, research and experience at least vaguely related to the field are all really good. I have seen a lot of people post acceptances on here that have even lower GRE and GPA scores. I wish I had more experience!

I am taking USU's classes for the first time this fall and so far it's been a good experience. I had asked around to make sure the pre-reqs would be accepted where I wanted to apply, and they said that they would accept them no problem. I was considering doing the full second bachelors, but so many of the schools I am looking at only have 4-5 pre-reqs, so I probably won't do the second degree option. Only downside is that if you are a non-degree seeking student you don't qualify for financial aid.

Haha, yes you did reply to me over there as well Thanks for the advice! I think I'm going to go ahead and do my two pre-reqs this fall and apply to both grad programs as well as post-bac programs and see what happens.

Thanks for the reply! I'm out in California, and I don't plan on applying to any of the schools out here. They get sooooo many applicants for their programs and I am ready for a change (not to mention the fact that the CA public school system is crap right now). How did you go about contacting current students? I was thinking about doing that, but I wasn't quite sure how to find out who to contact, etc.

I am curious about this too. I am completely out of field (got my BA in classical civilization at UCLA!) and am currently signed up to take 2 pre-reqs through USU this fall. I'm wondering if it matters whether I take a class or two, like if I have one or two completed that it shows that I am interested in pursuing SLP? Does anybody know of schools that have post-bac programs? Right now I am have discovered and am planning on applying to UNC Greensboro and Texas Tech, which both have 1 year post-bac programs where you can apply to their own grad programs while you are taking the classes. Seeing how competitive admissions were this past year and how everyone has such great stats and experience, I feel like I only have a very small chance of getting admitted to a 3 year program!

Seeing as the last posting is from July, I don't know if anyone will read this, but I was wondering whether it makes a difference if you visit the schools you plan on applying to. I believe someone mentioned that they thought it didn't really matter and another person said that the clinical director remembered her name from visiting, so I was just wondering what other people thought. I am going to be applying to out of state schools and it would be a bit costly to travel to all of them, but if it really would make some sort of difference, I would go out and visit at some point. Thanks!