canaderican

So I just got my BA this year, and have a couple of classes to retake. So I'm taking the summer off before taking anymore classes, but I want to know how bad it would be to apply for Fall 2011 instead of Fall 2010? I need $$ and to regain my sanity after taking so long to finish my degree. Is this looked down upon, if my application shows that my BA was in 2009 but I'm not applying until 2011?

Well, waiting is over for me- got the answer I expected from the beginning, but at least the grad secretary was able to give me some specific points that I need to improve on (which classes I need to re-take), and she told me the GPA was my only issue. So yay but boo at the same time. lol

UBC- Speech pathology MSc program. :-\ App. deadline was Feb. 28th, was told they made decisions in the last week of March...

I'm about to go batsh*t crazy, and I already know I'm waiting on a rejection!! I'm just irked that the school has taken this long to send any information out, because it could have screwed up other offers/acceptances if I had applied to other schools! I'm tempted to email the graduate secretary again just to ask when to expect ANY correspondence about their program.

Has anyone heard from any UBC Master's programs? I applied to the MSc Speech Pathology program, and the deadline was Feb. 28th. I always assume no news is good news, even though I'm fairly certain I got rejected. It's also been 2 weeks (maybe 3?) since I emailed a professor in the program about possibly taking his first-year grad-level class, and no word back from him either. Someone comfort me. lol

I've noticed a couple of people asking about apartments near SFU- Burnaby is definitely closest, but Coquitlam has some relatively cheap housing prices. Port Moody has some housing options as well, but they're on par with downtown Vancouver prices (in my experience). Commuting from either of these places is easy as well, since buses run straight up Burnaby Mountain to campus.

Still waiting on UBC- application deadline was Feb. 28th. Was told decisions were made 2 weeks ago. :-\ Not that I don't already know the answer, but it'd be nice to have the letter anyway.

I know mine is a rejection regardless of when it's received (my GPA wasn't nearly what it should have been), but the graduate secretary told me that they made decisions last week and would be mailing & emailing acceptances first then they would "notify everyone else".

Am I too impatient or does anyone else think that rejections should be mailed first? Heh. It drives me nuts that they make people wait in agony, only to reject them. It kills me to know that decisions were made last week for the program I applied to, and if I don't get an email or letter within the first 2 weeks, it means a rejection (which I expect anyway, but I don't like having to wait for confirmation of things like that).

Thanks for the tough love. lol I guess I should have added that I don't really have many options on applying to grad school, as my husband and I aren't exactly in a position to move for me to go to grad school, especially when the programs I've looked at don't offer much, if any, funding options other than loans. I do, however, plan to apply to a couple of other schools next time around. I would imagine any advice regarding improving my application to my "dream school" would make my application to other schools look that much better, so I guess THAT is what I was really asking.

I applied for UBC's MSc SLP program, but I'm 99.99% what the result will be since it's such a competitive field and they're so GPA-focused. I wasn't planning to apply at all but did so at the encouragement of my references! Next year, I plan to apply to UBC and University of Western Washington (possibly University of Western Ontario too, if we're more financially stable to handle a move). I honestly have no back up plan if I don't get into grad school for SLP- I've been volunteering in a clinic for almost a year now, and I LOVE those kids. That day is honestly the brightest part of my whole week, every week.

Hi guys- I'm new to Grad Cafe, but I've been lurking for a couple of weeks, and felt compelled to post. I've only applied to one grad school this year (and I wasn't even planning on applying until two weeks before the deadline), and I'm fairly certain I will be rejected. I applied to UBC's MSc Speech Pathology program, which has a fairly steep GPA requirement... however, my issue is less with their specific competitive GPA, and more with whether my "last 2 year GPA" will be high enough. So if I'm rejected, I pretty much know why and want to remedy it. Once the rejection letter comes, I plan to contact a professor in the program about the possibility of taking a grad-level class in the fall. Other than that, I don't really know what else to do, since I'm pretty burned out on undergrad crap right now (it would take a LOT of classes to bring my GPA up as much as I want)... Any ideas on what else to do GPA-wise? I've got everything else- volunteer exp., research exp., awesome references, I thought my statement of intent was pretty good.