Canadian applicant - offered Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship

This was my second time applying. I was waitlisted at the beginning of April and got off the waitlist late May. I had a lot of experience in SLP related areas, but had a D in Stats when I first applied. I took another Stats course and got a B that I put down on the "required courses" section the second time round. In my gap year, I got a job as a Behaviour Interventionist, volunteered at a Brain Injury Society doing intake interviews with Brain Injury survivors, redid my letter of interest with a Career Advisor, and asked an SLP Alumni from U of A to write my reference letter. One of my referees wasn't able to get their reference letter in on time, and they still accepted my application with just 2 references. If you're applying to U of A for SLP my best advice is to job shadow as many SLPs as you can, try gaining work experience in related fields, and focus on your letter of interest and reference letters. Keep trying! If you don't get in this year, you'll probably get in next year!!

First time applicant. Completed a 2-year SLPA diploma, then a post-diploma Bachelor's degree program (60 credits) through Athabasca University. 7 years of experience as an SLPA in schools. 1st Quartile Casper.

BA in Communication. Research assistant with a linguistics lab since fall 2023. Volunteered with adults with aphasia since summer 2024. GPA is hard to calculate because I went back to school to do the prereqs for the program (current GPA is 4.26/4.33 ; GPA from my BA was 3.69/4.33). Accepted this offer, declined one from another Canadian school.

Submitted with an average of 93% (not on GPA scale) with an Education undergrad. I had 3 yrs of experience working with kids and adults experiencing disabilities, 1 summer experience volunteering at Speech Pathology camps, along with classroom and family experience through my undergrad practicums.

3.8 sGPA, 5 years experience working with neurdivere children (respite, lead instructor, casefile manager, BI, family support worker), 1 year experience working on reserve as an SLPA, 60 hours research experience in BALA

1.5 years working as an SLPa, shadowed 4 SLPs, in 2 research labs, volunteered in 2 aphasia conversations groups, volunteered at a rehabilitation centre 1:1 with a patient with apraxia. From BC

Will be declining this offer as I already accepted another offer.

SLP-A background, experience with stroke recovery groups, social groups for kids, and a bit of research experience & grad level coursework. Very excited, waiting to hear back elsewhere before making a decision

First time Canadian applicant (Ontario)! Received an email on Friday March 26th with an acceptance. Will have to make a decision which school to accept. Good luck everyone!

first time applicant from alberta. stats mark was not the greatest so thinking that was a factor.

First time Canadian applicant (BC). SO excited, will definitely be accepting!!

First time applicant from Sask! Will be accepting!