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APPLYING TO GRADUATE SCHOOLS in SPEECH & AUDIOLOGY. Preparing To Apply. Where do you want to go? Contact schools for information Find out timelines for your schools Arrange to take GRE. Professional Organizations. ASHA: www.asha.org/gradguide/ AAA:
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Preparing To Apply • Where do you want to go? • Contact schools for information • Find out timelines for your schools • Arrange to take GRE
Professional Organizations • ASHA: • www.asha.org/gradguide/ • AAA: • www.audiology.org/students/audprog.php • NAFDA: • www.nafda.org
Letters of Recommendation • Faculty who know you well • Work supervisors who know you well
Letters (part 2) • Rating Forms • Letters on Institutional Stationery • Some Schools: directly to school • Some: back to you
Personal Statement: • Typically 1- to 2-page DS typed • Covering: • Interest in Field • Experience • Plans • Avoid melodrama, exaggeration
Writing Sample • Some schools have an essay component • proctored or not
THE GRE • Verbal • Quantitative • Analytical Writing Test • Schools vary in weight given to GRE • V+Q > # ? • Should I take it again?
Transcripts • of all previous UG work • and grad work, if any
University of Florida • 3 letters of recommendation • personal statement • GRE (V+Q and A) • Transcripts (Upper Division GPA) • Fall admissions only • Deadline February 1
University of Florida-Timeline • Letters go out early March • Accept // Deny // Waitlist • Accepted Students reply by early April • Waitlist notifications go on until class is filled