For once I made a mistake that worked out better. I confused when the application for the school in Mesa was due and when the first on-line program had a deadline.
For some reason I prioritize doing things in-person more.
On the one hand, it frustrates me that there aren't many more on-line programs in 2023, but I have a vastly easier time focusing when there aren't distracting classmates.
With all of my applications and retaking 4 classes I probably could have found somewhere that would take my money by now.
I found a list of
the easiest to get into SLP programs.
The top five have at least a 90% acceptance rate!
None were on-line or in Arizona, though.
I had been trying to write the essay for the second on-line program, which was due last night, apparently at midnight Maryland time.
These things never specify!
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Please upload your personal statement that describes professional goals as well as three strengths and three areas of growth related to your place in a graduate program for speech-language pathology
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I remembered 500 words, but not that it was the maximum.
I need to be honest, but not too honest--casually honest?
I didn't think that mentioning my worst challenges would do me any good, so I mentioned real ones, just
Anyway, I went to work on it, but I had been trying to find out when the first two programs made their final decisions. I couldn't find anything on-line, so I asked, and the professor in Mesa asked where I was in the application that I submitted 2 weeks ago.
I went to check the date and it just said "Undelivered."
Like when my e-mail or text messes up and I need to send again?
Eventually I found that at some point they decided that I needed to list every class was clearly written on my transcripts that I completed over 15 years ago and didn't have anything to do with anything relevant.
Of course, entering an entire Bachelor's degree from 16+ years ago was a pain, but they didn't even have several subjects that I took--like Portuguese!
So, I worry that they will kick it back again because I marked the wrong subject, even though they didn't have the right one!
I absolutely could not get it to save the second semester--back in 2000. I hit the help button, but that was automated and useless.
Unfortunately, the human was equally useless, but I finally reloaded the page. I lost all of the data I entered for a semester, but I was able to start over.
I finally finished it and resubmitted my applications. The Mesa school application arrived hours before its bizarrely East coast deadline, if I recall correctly, but I doubt the on-line program will consider an application that was incomplete for 2 weeks.
I finally ate and got ready to see my client.
I worked on my essay, but kept getting distracted, although I was not happy with it.
The paragraphs listing things I was trying to improve was longer than I liked and the parts about what I did well was too short, but I mixed positives and negatives to make the bad points sound better.
I printed a copy, asked Mom to read it, and then checked where the school is located, in case it made a difference.
Maryland.
I showered and Mom was finishing reading the essay.
I made the few changes she indicated, changed it to mention that I lived in Maryland and D.C. from 1998 to 2000, went to upload it, and it was already midnight Maryland time and I was locked out.