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I think it would be a little cruel for them to retract the offer now, unless you end up not fulfilling your summer course. The email from the admissions committee said "We are very pleased to extend you an offer of admission to our clinical Master of Science degree program," and that sounds pretty final to me! I'd say you're definitely in I'm just curious now about potential funding... And yeah, judging from how tiny the program is, I'm pretty sure we'll be meeting in a few months! We'll have to start a Facebook group.

Thanks! I'm from Pittsburgh. Still waiting to hear back on a final decision from Gallaudet, which tied with McGill for my dream-school, but I'm 99% sure I'm headed to Montreal. I heard back a couple weeks ago, but just got "confirmed" last week because I had to sign up for an additional stats class. Still have the "Recommended by Department" status, but hopefully I'll have an official letter soon.

Accepted to McGill! As an American, I am slightly terrified but insanely excited at the prospect of moving out of the country for school. Good job everyone.

Good talk, everyone, good talk. Thanks for your help and quick responses! I think I've narrowed down a few schools that have relatively few prereqs, seem fairly open to non-backgrounders, and have programs and professors that fit my interests: McGill, University of British Columbia, Ohio State, Gallaudet, and Northwestern. For a few of those, I would only need between 1-3 prereq classes before next Fall...so I'll plan on taking those classes ASAP, shadowing a couple SLPs, communicating with those schools, and applying this year. We'll see what happens! I definitely cannot justify taking out another full year of loans just to take a handful undergrad-level classes at an expensive, uppity private school (sorry, NU), but if I don't get in this year I will re-up and finish prereqs online somewhere (perhaps USU, thanks for the tip!) over the next 2 years and try again! I honestly feel a little silly with how much of a whirlwind decision this is; I realize it's probably not the most practical or normal way to go about things, but I feel like I just got lit on fire. The more I read about everyone's experiences in school, and research in the field in general, the more excited I get. It's cool stuff! Question, though: why are there seriously NO DUDES in this business at all? I was looking at current students profiles at a few different universities, and there are no Y chromosomes to be found anywhere. I know all applications *should* be based on merit and not quota-material, but...is there any chance that being a guy will help/hurt my case?

Hello all! I've been reading through these forums and you all seem like such a nice bunch; I figured I would contribute my...well, I would say 2 cents, but it's more of a plea for 2 cents worth of advice. Essentially, I just found SLP about a month ago. I went to UPitt for undergrad, a well-known school in the field it seems, but had a different set of interests at the time and have had little-to-no CommD experience. However, I have always been completely absorbed with language, and have a relatively strong phonetics / speech structures background from an undergrad major in Linguistics. In short, after talking with a local SLP recently, I buckled down and started researching -- it turns out SLP is not only SUPER INTERESTING, but is a perfect combination of the things I've been searching for in a career. So, schools - I keep seeing that "schools are always looking for students with diverse backgrounds," and "you can transition from another career!", but how true is that? Obviously this would vary by school (and by my actual courses taken in college), but is there any use in even applying to any program this year? I'm fluent in French (would love to do McGill's program and live in Montreal), and in ASL (I was reading about how helpful it can be, in certain positions), but those are trivial skills considering I have never taken a basic class in speech disorders outside of Psych 101. I feel like I have a lot of momentum that could help me - I have good GRE scores, a high undergrad GPA, and a year of experience working with Deaf youth with developmental disorders. Any opinions? Should I direct these questions to individual programs? Any general advice? Thanks a lot guys.