You're wasting your time if you think graduate work in speech pathology is the key to success. I too got sucked into that irreversible vortex of exuberance and excitement when I got that email from the University of Redlands in April of 2010 offering me a spot in their grad communicative disorders program.
At first you think the world is yours for the taking. Then, slowly, you realize that speech-language therapy is a complete farce. You start to see that no one has bothered to publish anything in that ASHA publication questioning if therapy even works!
kurt