| Dramama -
Amen to the campus visit! I have had MANY a student who was already accepted at one of the "top" schools I discussed go with their "gut" love of a DIFFERENT school - and of course, I encourage them to FOLLOW their gut as long as they are fully informed of the REALITIES of each program, including national and regional rep. The "informed gut" is the best and an idea we actually live by in my Voice Therapy grad program: once we are fully educated on a topic, we follow our "clinical gut" for each case we see, even if our gut CONTRADICTS conventional wisdom or sometimes even "proven" data.
My long post earlier was designed simply to lay out the reputations of top schools as a counterpoint to other programs who claim such reputations. These claims, in many cases, are just false advertising to a very vulnerable population - and that's why I feel strongly enough to post about this several times tonight, when I SHOULD be writing clinical reports...Ahhh, CC procrastination! |