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Go to the Emerson portal and look at your application credentials. They haven't sent an email yet, but I was notified of the interview there after I neurotically checked the page a couple of times.

While it would be nice to know more about the interviews, I don't think it's really fair to ask about the content of the questions that they would ask. And part of an interview is feeling the vibe between people and being able to be personable, too, so I'm not sure that having too much more information would be helpful! I do suggest everyone practice interviewing, though! Especially if you've never interviewed for a job outside of school before. Interviewing is definitely a skill and it took me a long time to stop feeling awkward about it!

It's in the table thingy.

I bet they're going to email tonight or something. I was pathetically refreshing the grad cafe results page when I saw, heehee.

I think Emerson interviews have been posted to the portal!

I saw that acceptance and came over to post! I hope you get in, SLPgradstudent! (I hope I get in, too, but I've been following your story and I know you've got a lot riding on this!!!)

I think this is common practice, but not necessarily required. U of DC is a smaller school with limited funding, and they don't really get a whole lot of attention or applications, I think, since College Park is so close and there are a lot of schools in the DC area, so maybe they're trying to make themselves attractive to people who want more flexibility in their application process. UDC is in a really pretty part of the city, and very safe, too. Plus, they have a cooperative tuition deal with the other states in the region. I didn't look into this too carefully, but I think at least Maryland and some Virginia students can get in-state tuition.

I got emails from (besides the ones that you listed): Emerson Northeastern GWU UMD College Park Pittsburgh

Yup! I got this email in the beginning of January.

Aaah! I love that some of you are getting acceptances. This is very exciting! For everyone else, yeah, I am in that same nervous boat. I got an email with the title YOUR APPLICATION STATUS and then inside it just said, "Your application is complete!" Thanks, I knew that, since I turned all the stuff in two weeks ago... haha.

So, how are we all holding up? Some of my schools start to notify in early February, but I'm trying not to get too distracted from everything else I need to be doing. It's a struggle, though.

All of mine were submitted... the last one at 11 PM the day of. Que sera sera.

USU is cheaper than my local community college. USA schools are expensive.

Yup, those are verified!

Good luck! I finished mine all early, since Jan 15th will be the weekend of the first week of spring classes for me.

Glad to help! Did you end up applying?

I liked the pedagogical philosophy, and the graduate admissions person noted that most professors and students are on a first-name basis - which is great! No pretense. I'm not interested in abroad programs or bilingual emphasis, but everyone I talked to emphasized how much they hustle to get their students the placements they want and said that a medical placement wouldn't be difficult to come by. Plus, to be honest, I tried to apply to all the schools that were a. near a large or mid-sized city that my SO could conceivably get a job in and b. had a track record of accepting students from outside CSD.

I kept my MGH statement under 2 pages, and it ended up being about 750 words. I've finished all my apps, and my recommenders have all replied that they're still planning on writing letters (lol) so all there's to do is wait.

Oh, of course! Honestly I think sometimes people think adcomms are inhuman monsters with no understanding of real life, but they're human, too! And if they are really going to hold it against you for the letters of recommendation being late (when it's out of your hands)... well, I'm not sure I want to go to that school.

Yeah, I'm dealing with this, too. One of my references was super enthusiastic about sending it... and then nothing. I'm going to email my programs and explain what's going on and ask if I should come up with a second reference. I can, but they're in an artsy department where I did a minor, not my academic major department, so I hesitate sending something from them. Honestly, though, adcomms should understand that the date that your references arrive isn't in your control. I'm confident that two of my references will come through by the deadline, so it's really just a matter of figuring out what to do about this last one.

Yeah, my undergrad had a campus overseas where I did my study abroad, so I just sent the transcripts from my undergrad institution.

Call them. Customer service can walk you through any issues.

Mine is verified without the letters uploaded. You'll be fine.

I emailed a couple of programs and they all had different answers. Only Maryland asked me to try and send the Fall grades as well, so I guess I'll Fedex myself that one transcript. *shrug* I need it for academic update anyway.

I don't think that point of view has anything to do with your age. (It's also kind of patronizing to suggest that you have a better grasp on issues of gender disparity because of your age. I come from a highly competitive industry background and have had plenty of need to smack down misogyny even though I'm probably younger than you are.) I agree that it's counterproductive and, frankly, mildly offensive that a man can make a statement about entry into a female-dominated field that ignores the preferential treatment that men get just about everywhere else. It's just tone-deaf. I guess I just bristle at the statement "getting in over someone more qualified because of X" because that's the exact argument that people against affirmative action use, all the time, and I kind of jumped the gun on what you were saying. The fact of the matter is that it's completely bonkers to try and game admissions like this - to say that X person will get in only because of their demographics, or that Y group of people need to have better stats. While the trends are out there and true, at the end of the day, that has no bearing whatsoever on whether you, an individual, will make it into a school. There are too many soft, qualitative aspects to admissions. The overall point I was trying to make was that these types of calculations are useless. As long as you're inside the wondrous bell curve of admitted students' statistics, you have a shot at getting in. Everything else is just a crap shoot. Down with the patriarchy. *fistbump*