Program-Specific Info / Q's USC 2019

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I just got accepted as well!! I received a 7k scholarship and honestly any free money is helpful at this point 🙂 I am still waiting to hear from one other school so I haven't made a decision yet. But good luck/congrats to everyone else!
 
Does anyone have experience asking for more money? I don’t wanna seem ungrateful but Wash U gave me 24K plus a GA positions, so for a 3 year doctorate program, I would be going for about 98k. So I find it hard to justify moving to LA and paying 120k for a masters program :/ so maybe if I mention this, they’ll give me more? Or do you think everything is super final?
 
Husky19 said:
Does anyone have experience asking for more money? I don’t wanna seem ungrateful but Wash U gave me 24K plus a GA positions, so for a 3 year doctorate program, I would be going for about 98k. So I find it hard to justify moving to LA and paying 120k for a masters program :/ so maybe if I mention this, they’ll give me more? Or do you think everything is super final?
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I just got my acceptance too! I read the scholarship letter and it says it's just for the 2019-2020 academic year, so I'm sure there's opportunity to get more scholarship money for future years in the program. I also got a scholarship from Wash U and I think their scholarship offer is what you get for the whole program.
 
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Just got accepted! But I'm already in CSUDH OT program (started Spring 2019, next week is my midterms) and I will reject the offer. I just wanted to see if I could get in and I'm super happy that I did 🙂
I'm guessing that those in the waitlist will get my position! Gluck to all of you!
 
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KumabellaOT said:
Do you mind sharing your stats?
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UCLA Psychology major
Undergrad GPA: 3.73
OTCAS Overall: 3.78
Pre-Req GPA: 4.00
GRE: Q161 V155 W4.5 (Not great since OT schools care more about V or writing)
Observation Hours: 192 hours at Pediatrics Outpatient Facility
LOR: 1 professor, 1 director (boss from work), 1 OT
Related Experiences: 6 years at disability center (provided assistance and play dates) but this was long time ago 2007-2013. 2 years as research assistant for Infant Siblings Study (Autism related) at UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Pre-school TA, Afterschool program TA, tutoring

I have other experiences that are not directly OT/education/psychology related that I also included (school organization, work, etc)
I took a gap year after undergrad to do my pre-reqs and observations.
 
KumabellaOT said:
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University of Oregon ‘17
Major: Family and Human Services
Minor: Psychology
GPA: 3.34
Pre-req GPA: 4.1 (I took my A&P pre-reqs post bacc at the local community college to have a smaller class size)
GRE: 158V 146Q 4.5W
LOR: 2 OTs, 1 professor, 1 Principal Invesitgator(PI) from undergrad research lab, 1 PI from post bacc job in another research lab
Observation: 80 hours split between pediatric outpatient and elderly rehabilitation inpatient
Other experience:
1.5 years research assistant in undergrad lab working with at risk populations on a therapy intervention and 2 years experience as project coordinator of large longitudinal study, as well as conducted clinical diagnostic interviews

3.5 years on the coordinator board for the UO chapter of Camp Kesem!

Good luck with applying and remind yourself that you are awesome during all points of the process! Waiting is the hardest part for sure, but worth it in the end 🙂
 
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Hi all!,

I got an acceptance last night as well! However, I was wondering if anyone's gotten their acceptance posted to the portal yet?
 
OT20191 said:
UCLA Psychology major
Undergrad GPA: 3.73
OTCAS Overall: 3.78
Pre-Req GPA: 4.00
GRE: Q161 V155 W4.5 (Not great since OT schools care more about V or writing)
Observation Hours: 192 hours at Pediatrics Outpatient Facility
LOR: 1 professor, 1 director (boss from work), 1 OT
Related Experiences: 6 years at disability center (provided assistance and play dates) but this was long time ago 2007-2013. 2 years as research assistant for Infant Siblings Study (Autism related) at UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Pre-school TA, Afterschool program TA, tutoring

I have other experiences that are not directly OT/education/psychology related that I also included (school organization, work, etc)
I took a gap year after undergrad to do my pre-reqs and observations.
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Wow I'm a UCLA psychology major as well! And I am also an RA at Semel! I wonder if we know each other??
 
UCLA Psychology major
Undergrad GPA: 3.5
OTCAS Overall: 3.4
Pre-Req GPA: 4.0 (I took anatomy but decided not to include it in my prereqs because I got a B)
GRE: W151 V154 W4.0
Observation Hours: 200 pediatric (spread across 3 clinics), 20 hand therapy, 24 hospital acute care at UC Davis Medical Center
LOR: Director of applied behavioral analysis program and 2 OTs
Related Experiences: 150 hours of ABA therapy, currently a research assistant at Semel Institute of Neuroscience for the Children's Friendship program (but this was not on my application), personal care attendant for a girl with neuromuscular dystrophy, Best Buddies member, and a member of UCLA's occupational therapy club
 
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Hey everyone! I’m planning to send an email to USC today to request an extension to the decision deadline. I have a draft put together but was wondering if anyone has any experience doing this and had any specific pointers of how to ask for an extension. I’m very interested in the program, I just need some time since I’m waiting on hearing back from one more program.
 
FutureOT1313 said:
Hey everyone! I’m planning to send an email to USC today to request an extension to the decision deadline. I have a draft put together but was wondering if anyone has any experience doing this and had any specific pointers of how to ask for an extension. I’m very interested in the program, I just need some time since I’m waiting on hearing back from one more program.
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My only advice would be to send the email ASAP. I sent an email on Friday and still havent heard back. I also followed up yesterday and still nothing! 🙁
 
Husky19 said:
My only advice would be to send the email ASAP. I sent an email on Friday and still havent heard back. I also followed up yesterday and still nothing! 🙁
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Oh yikes that’s stressful! Thank you for that heads up, I will get it out stat. Did you ask for a specific amount of time or did you leave it up to their discretion??
 
FutureOT1313 said:
Oh yikes that’s stressful! Thank you for that heads up, I will get it out stat. Did you ask for a specific amount of time or did you leave it up to their discretion??
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I had a question about scholarships, so can't really help you with the emails part haha. Just wanted to let you know they seem to be behind with correspondences!
 
Husky19 said:
I had a question about scholarships, so can't really help you with the emails part haha. Just wanted to let you know they seem to be behind with correspondences!
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Oh I see! No worries at all. Thank you for for the heads up regardless, I really appreciate it!
 
Is anyone attending admitted students day on 3/22? I really wanna go but due to my class schedule I don't think I'll be able to and I'm so upset!! 🙁
Also, did anyone have a student reach out to them yet? Someone reached out to me last night and answered some of the questions I have, which is so awesome! I really appreciate a student's perspective!
 
Husky19 said:
Is anyone attending admitted students day on 3/22? I really wanna go but due to my class schedule I don't think I'll be able to and I'm so upset!! 🙁
Also, did anyone have a student reach out to them yet? Someone reached out to me last night and answered some of the questions I have, which is so awesome! I really appreciate a student's perspective!
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I’m unable to attend the admitted students day due to work and I’m super bummed about it! But yeah a student reached out to me this morning and I sent them a few questions and am just waiting to hear back 🙂 I’m really excited to hear their input and everything and love that they reached out!!
 
Husky19 said:
Is anyone attending admitted students day on 3/22? I really wanna go but due to my class schedule I don't think I'll be able to and I'm so upset!! 🙁
Also, did anyone have a student reach out to them yet? Someone reached out to me last night and answered some of the questions I have, which is so awesome! I really appreciate a student's perspective!
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I will be attending the 3/22 admitted students day! I can do a little summary post so you can hear about it 🙂
 
Is anyone else having trouble seeing their youSC account? Mine's like not loading lol and I've been trying all day!
 
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Husky19 said:
Is anyone else having trouble seeing their youSC account? Mine's like not loading lol and I've been trying all day!
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Omg we are the same lol. I’ve literally been trying it all day and been having the same problem. It must just be down! Good to have confirmation.
 
Hello. Does anyone have any idea if when are they sending out acceptances to those who got verified after the November 30th deadline? Someone mentioned in this thread that the reception for admitted students will be on 03/22. Is it likely that we will receive a notification before 03/22?
 
Pretty sure the site is down because they are uploading the formal electronic letters. As long as you replied back to the email with the signed letter of intent, you should be good for the upcoming deadline
 
theavidtraveler said:
Hello. Does anyone have any idea if when are they sending out acceptances to those who got verified after the November 30th deadline? Someone mentioned in this thread that the reception for admitted students will be on 03/22. Is it likely that we will receive a notification before 03/22?
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I’m not sure about this! It does seem however that they are just behind on any type of communication. I’ve been trying to get in touch since middle of last week and can’t get a response :/ but I would assumed that this may be a general issue and that could be why those verified after the deadline haven’t heard back yet
 
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