Another option is to take a year “off” to do prerequisites and then apply to programs. I know students who went that route.
Public schools are generally competitive due to cost. They have the same curriculum, accreditation, same rotations/externships. It is still a competitive process regardless.
Yes, that’s the backup plan!
We have an in-state university (UGA) that offers an online leveling program for a reasonable cost. We can also see how many seats are left in the various classes she’d need to take. So crossing my fingers that if she doesn’t get into any programs, the timing works out so that she still has time to get into this online leveling program – then she can live at home for a year and save money and complete the prereqs.
University of Connecticut is a competitive admit, but does offer a three year program. The first year really is taking those required courses that some applicants take as undergrads.
For anyone, I suggest they look at their instate public universities for speech language pathology programs. You can make an appointment to talk to someone also. These instate public universities, if accredited by the American Speech Language Hearing Association, have the same high standards and robust curriculums as any private speech language pathology program.
As suggested way upstream on this thread, go to the American Speech Language Hearing Association website. There is plentiful information there about graduate programs.
I got my undergrad degree at Ohio University in Communication Arts and Sciences (that’s what they called it in 1973). I got my masters in speech language pathology at Western Illinois University. While I really wanted to go to Northwestern, it was just nit affordable for me. I got an excellent education at WIU, and really interesting and varied clinical placements during my program there. My point being…you don’t have to go to a powerhouse university…you need to go to one accredited by ASHA.
Absolutely! It’s been an adjustment to a different mindset from looking for an undergrad school – where fit and vibe and all that stuff is so important. But it’s so different for grad school.
We live in the south, so if a big northeastern city is unrealistic, D is leaning more toward programs closer to home. University of Memphis looks promising and is good about offering graduate assistantships. South Carolina has a professor who has a focus on something she’s really interested in, and Georgia State would be like half the cost of anywhere else. Heard good things about Radford and UT Dallas, too. (She’s currently at Rice, and one professor who is writing her a rec letter introduced her to a former Rice linguistics student who did SLP at UT Dallas several years ago.)
We have collectively spent a million hours on ASHA’s EdFind site, lol.
Take a look at CUNY. Competitive, but amazing (and a costly city).
We did. They require prereqs upfront, unfortunately, which she doesn’t have with a linguistics background (beyond phonetics and speech/hearing science).
One of my best working colleagues got her masters at Radford. It was quite a while ago, but she was instate for tuition, and also her family lived nearby. She was an excellent excellent clinician.
Really….that ASHA accreditation is what you need.
When I was in undergrad, the clinic was in the basement of a building that was torn down a year or two after I graduated. We did our planning sitting on the stairs with notebooks in our laps. But we had fabulous and nationally well known professors…who were amazing. And our clinic rooms were great, and the staff spent a lot of money on assessments and materials so we would know about the state of the art things. Our clinicals in undergrad were also quite varied, and I got a ton of clinical hours back in the day when undergrad clinical hours actually counted for ASHA.
My masters program was in a small building if it’s own. At least we had a room dedicated to the folks getting masters degrees…sort of an office. Again…clinical facilities were very good, and our placements for clinical hours were quite varied, and good. The clinical supervisors were also excellent.
These are the things that matter!