I applied through my University, I am completing my MEd in Counselling Psychology. GPA from my undergrad was a 3.6 and my grad GPA at the time was 3.93. I had no publications or conferences and a few smaller scholarships/awards. My letters of reference were from university professors. I was fortunate enough that in my program we complete our research course in the fall semester in which we had to complete a research proposal so we were quite prepared for the application.