CSUSM Interviews

[mo~]

Hello everyone,

I just received an interview with CSUSM. Did anyone else get an interview? Does anyone know anything about their interview process. Or whether the interviews are group or individual? 

[Salbando]

Hello everyone,

I just received an interview with CSUSM. Did anyone else get an interview? Does anyone know anything about their interview process. Or whether the interviews are group or individual? 

 

From one of the information sessions that I attended they said to focus on three courses that they had listed in the CSD Evaluation Worksheet (the one that you filled out as part of the application process listed your prereq courses). These are EDSL320, EDSL351, and EDSL391. This will be the written part of the test. Pay particular attention to speech anatomy and physiology, phonetic transcription and IPA and maybe be ready to identify a speech sample. As for the group part of the interview it will involve I think some kind of group project. They probably want to see and observe how you interact and get along with others. For general advice I would say focus on other areas of the SLP knowledge base. But I would think as a clinician, what do they use everyday in their profession would be a good question to ask yourself and then answer. Since they do not require the GRE, the exam will test your basic knowledge of the SLP profession. Good luck to you and congrats on getting the interview--you made to that level which is great. The information session said that for this year's cohort their are 254 applicants, 100 of that will be granted an interview and 34 will be granted admission.  

[Salbando]

Hello everyone,

I just received an interview with CSUSM. Did anyone else get an interview? Does anyone know anything about their interview process. Or whether the interviews are group or individual? 

 I just checked out an older post from 2013 for somebody who went through the interview process at CSUSM and they said and I quote;

 

"For people interviewing later/next year: Interview was mostly content based, so brush up on your Audiology, Phonetic Transcription, and Linguistics knowledge! Also, know what to look for in a speech sample. There was a group portion, writing portion and the individual interview."