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I wouldn't worry too much about the rankings. If you read the methodology, rankings are based "solely on the results of peer assessment surveys sent to deans, other administrators, and/or faculty at accredited degree programs or schools". Respondents are required to rate the academic quality of programs on a scale of 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding), and this is then averaged and ranked. The response rate was only 31% for the latest survey.

Yes, while that has some value, i.e. what some academics think, it really doesn't say that much about the program itself. And the differences in scores are so minor too. I would go to any accredited school that I've visited and liked, and heard good reviews about from students. After all, we're not talking about law school here. We're all going to graduate and find the same jobs regardless of the ranking of our schools. The only exception would be if you were interested in pursuing a PhD later.

just left my interview. Super nice faculty and grad students. Overall not bad. I am terrible at interviewing. I get all nervous and red... Not a good look. If I don't get in I have to attribute it to my terrible interviewing skills because they obviously liked me enough to give me an interview. Oh well.

I bit the bullet and called Columbia Teacher's College today. The nice woman I spoke with said mid-March. Just a few more weeks!

I don't understand the negative reputation points for this post. Are they not legitimate questions? Not everyone has money to burn. Some are in massive dept from undergrad and simply cannot afford the top $$ schools. Research shows that you do not have to attend a top $$ school to be a succesful SLP. So what gives?

As Jack Handey says "Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away and you have their shoes."

Don't worry kriskros...the same has been happening to me. I've seen people have correspondence from schools that I applied to and I haven't heard anything. Maybe it has something to do with when we sent our apps in? I definitely was close to the deadlines on most of mine!

I like to spend this day every year doing a little reading about Dr. King, and I happened across the following in one of the online document archives I was browsing:

"King took the examination on 3 February. A table enclosed with the test report indicates that his verbal aptitude score is in the second lowest quartile and his quantitative score is in the lowest ten percent of those taking the test. In the advanced test in philosophy, King's score (on a scale of 100) places him in the lowest third, while his other scores (on a scale of 800) are in the lowest quartile in all the subject areas except literature, where he placed in the top quartile."

http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_510306_000/

So, whatever the GRE is measuring, it certainly isn't an infallible measure of your global verbal skills, guys. Arguably the greatest orator in American history couldn't crack the 50th percentile on the verbal. Just thought I'd add some perspective for all of us who are fretting over how we measure up.