{This post is from Maggie Flynn, a senior in SLHS. Hear her thoughts on applying to grad school. Thanks, Maggie!}
As a Speech Language and Hearing Science major
graduate school is something you hear about from the day you walk in the door.
It is the next necessary step on the road to becoming a Speech Language
Pathologist or Audiologist. For my first three years the application process
seemed to loom in the distance; but now the time has arrived. While deadlines
are still a few months away, it is easy to become overwhelmed by the amount
steps I still need to complete in addition to managing 18 hours of course work.
Thus
far the best solution I have found to avoid stress is a few deep breathes
paired with some master organization. It is all about the planning. Since I am
applying to eight programs my answer was to make a series of excel documents
with each school’s information: website links, deadlines, application type, due
date, test scores, number of recommendation letters, tuition cost, etc. This
way when I need to know something it is already there and I do not have to go
searching through University website mazes.
Next, every week I set out a task to complete for the week. Last week
was sending GRE scores to schools, this week it is Transcripts. Breaking the
application process into stages makes everything manageable and avoids a panic
to get everything together at the last minute.
To
all those currently applying to Graduate school or to those planning to in the
future—Don’t panic, we can do it!
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