I started Uncommon Student at the beginning of my undergraduate journey. Since then I’ve taken a lot of CLEP exams, almost as many DSST exams, finished a sprinkling of online classes, and graduated with my Bachelor of Arts from Thomas Edison State University in March 2018.
Blogging slowed down during my senior “year” during Fall 2017 because I was finishing my degree and applying to (many) graduate schools. I was applying to study Speech-Language Pathology. I am blessed to live in a state with several excellent Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) programs, but they are all highly competitive and the application process is nerve wracking, expensive, confusing, and overall an emotional roller coaster!
I got told no by school after school after school. Graduate school interviews are exhausting and the let-down is very real (and it is so hard not to take personally). One by one my list became smaller and smaller. Finally I was only waiting on two universities, one of which was out of state. I had been waitlisted at both – which leaves a glimmer of hope, but only a glimmer.
One was out of state and not my first pick. The other was in-state and where I could only dream of going (there was no way I would get into Auburn 😉 ).
Then April 20, 2018 I got the email that changed my life. Auburn had accepted me as a leveling, non-background Speech-Language Pathology graduate student.
I burst into tears.
Someone asked me a couple of weeks ago how I ended up at Auburn. “The Lord did it.” That’s the only answer I have. Now here I am with one of three years behind me and it has been amazing. I have been pulled way out of my comfort zone, learned so much, made memories, and fallen deeper in love with the field I’m studying.
In honor of that, for the next couple of months I’m going to focus on blog posts that will cover graduate school applications, the GRE, interviews, and all that fun stuff.