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  1. Yep, the first thing the PO said was "wait for the summary statement." I PMed you the rest.
  2. Yes. Fs and Rs have different processes. For the IC I am funded through, and a number of others, they do not percentile fellowship application scores so there is no firm payline. There are separate study sections who review fellowships, and the second stage of review (funding decisions) is not Council, but a separate group that decides on fellowships only for that application period. It's an...educated guessing game. I've been trying to link report.nih.gov for you for a few days, but it's down. There, you can pull up success rates by IC and funding mechanism. The data do not link success rates to scores. My score was marginal, and my advisor had me email my PO to ask about next steps and if I should be preparing to resubmit. The PO can't make any promises until you get a NOA, but they were able to give me general feedback about whether they've funded proposals with similar scores in the past and told me approximately when the funding decision would be made so I could plan for possible resubmission.
  3. I'm SLP to PhD and don't really know the PT field, but: completing the clinical degree and certification may be a definite asset throughout a PhD program and in the faculty job search. Having patient care experience gives you more insight into the public health impact of your research than someone who went straight through school. This will improve your ability to form research questions, justify the significance of those questions to funding agencies (i.e., NIH), and contextualize outcomes in ways that matter to the public. It may also be the case that available faculty positions are in clinical departments, and the ability to teach in the classroom using case examples from your own practice, or to provide clinical supervision, will be a huge selling point for you. I transitioned from social science undergrad and clinical master's degree to a biology lab, and it's been such a huge benefit for my learning to be the person in the room with the least knowledge of cell biology or whatever, but the only person who has ever treated a patient. I get to learn from people with all kinds of expertise, and provide my own unique expertise. It WAS hard psychologically and emotionally to go back to being a student after being a professional, but it was worth it and the coursework period is ultimately so brief. Three years in, I feel like a professional again: I'm done with classes, done with prelims (no more exams ever), I'm starting to teach, and I've gotten a grant and am working along on a ton of research projects. The best aspect is that I get to do research in an area that's really understudied, pursue my ideas, form new collaborations, and carve out my own niche. Patient care is fun, but research is more interesting. Even surgeons say there's a 5-10 year window before you master everything, get bored, and start looking for more intellectual stimulation and get into research anyway. The worst aspect is definitely money, but that's temporary. SLP/CSD is a field that needs PhD-level faculty and I've been told that jobs will be plentiful and ultimately pay more than working as a clinician. We'll see how that plays out. Not sure about PT, though.
  4. As someone who transitioned from linguistics to SLP, my experience is that SLPs and some speech scientists within SLP/CSD don't use strict IPA. Hence, /r/ and I think some vowels (I haven't done artic since my master's program) are imprecise/adapted for American English. It was an adjustment.
  5. For physical stuff, maybe seek out yoga or meditation videos with a focus on breathing, and practice breathing with an open throat.
  6. Insurance and billing is important, too. Always learn as much as you can about that end of things.
  7. For me, it depends on what I need that day. Taking handwritten notes does help me focus in the moment, but I have tremendous difficulty rereading them later and actually using them as study instruments, especially if there's lots of unfamiliar vocabulary. So if there will be lots of memorization required, I need to type notes or have them provided on PPT or handouts. If I need to understand a process (statistics, math, signaling pathways), I'll use the strategy of taking notes to stay present and engaged for the duration of the class period, without the goal of using the notes later.
  8. Be sure to contact these programs to ensure that you can specialize in Voice. Vanderbilt has a specialty track; I'm not sure about most of the other places on your list, since I was limited to a geographic area when I searched. But I did speak to someone from UNC, and she said I would NOT be able to do a thesis in voice disorders there, which is why I didn't apply. There would not have been a faculty mentor for me; I'm not sure if that situation is permanent, or if someone was on sabbatical. If you're not looking to write a thesis, ask how many clinical rotations you'd be able to do in their voice center. If you can go anywhere in the country, I would check out the backgrounds of SLPs at various voice centers, and see where they went.
  9. For the USU people: there's a really active FB group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/109935279077833/?fref=ts
  10. Find out from your PhD program whether you are allowed to maintain outside employment.
  11. It's a rough time of year for everyone in or attached to a school, and your entire life is about to change as well. Panic shouldn't be unexpected. When it comes up, give yourself permission to feel it/be paranoid about your admission falling through for like 15 minutes, then jump into another activity. ETA: In the past 5 years, I've gotten married, had a child, moved 3 times, left 2 jobs, had my husband leave 2 jobs, completed a 2nd BS, bought a house, put it on the market, and been admitted to grad school, not all in that order. Change is stressful. You can't deny it, and you have to find a way to acknowledge your stress and let it out, because if you hold it in, your base-level anxiety will seep out in ways that drive you and everyone around you crazy.
  12. True. Look at the job postings on linguistlist.org to see what's out there. (Hint: computational linguists should be just fine.)
  13. My lease is up July 1, so that's when I'll be moving.
  14. My Goldlink changed to Decision Made a few days ago, and I finally got a letter in the mail yesterday. No email, ever. So check your mailbox!
  15. If it's a state school and it's right on the border, there may be an agreement to treat residents of certain out-of-state border counties as in-state students. Check with the school.
  16. I joined NSSLHA last year, and it's been invaluable. I went to ASHA 2012, which was a great learning experience, and access to the ASHA journals helped me write so many papers while completing my post-bacc.
  17. kcald, your transcript fees must have been insane. Holy cow!
  18. I did a post-bacc at Utah State. At the time I was looking at programs, it seemed to me that you needed either (1) an undergrad degree in SLP/CSD, or (2) completion of certain prereqs. The list of prereqs varied from school to school, and I had NO idea where I would be applying yet, so I decided to just get the degree. USU's 2nd BS is a distance program, and acceptance is noncompetitive. This did not hurt my grad applications this year at all. I did, however, get all of my LORs from professors at my first undergrad school, instead of the in-field USU profs who I took 1-2 courses each with, and who had never met me in person. My first undergrad school IS competitive, so I'm sure that helped as well. I'll also echo everyone else's advice and say, be sure to get the highest grades you can in your in-field courses.
  19. There's an SLP sub-forum under Professional Programs. Join us! http://forum.thegradcafe.com/forum/95-speech-language-pathology/
  20. I know you're looking for free, but I shelled out for Carbonite last year, and it turned out to be my best decision ever when I got a virus about four months later.
  21. I thought which classes to accept was at the schools' discretion, and that ASHA ultimately approved their decisions through accreditation reviews.
  22. If you're renting an off-campus apartment by yourself, don't forget a shower curtain!
  23. I would give two weeks' notice, a month max. I would definitely wait until I'd made the full year. Notifying jobs way too early has never worked out for me.
  24. Ahhh, thank you for posting this. I just declined as well; I hope it helps someone here out!
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