Admissions
Welcome to the Admissions Page for Communicative Disorders and Sciences
The Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences welcomes you to apply to our program. Our department only accepts Fall applications, and the next application deadline is February 1st, 2010 for the Fall 2010 admission class. A REVISED Application Instruction Letter [pdf] and a REVISED Applicant Evaluation and Recommendation Form [pdf] were each posted on Thursday, October 8th, 2009 and are the ONLY ACCEPTABLE FORMS to use for the Fall 2010 application process. Below you will find basic admission information and links. For answers to your questions, please see the FAQ Page .
Undergraduate Applicants:
To declare Communicative Disorders and Sciences as your major, please download and print a Change of Major Form [pdf] . (Forms are also available in the department office of Sweeney Hall 115 [pdf]) Please fill out the form, have it signed by the department chair and return it to Enrollment and Academic Services .
Extended Master Program Applicants:
If you are a graduate student who does not have a Bachelor's Degree in Communicative Disorders and Sciences, you will apply to our M.A. Program, but will be considered an Extended Master (EM) student. If you are accepted, you will take thirty credits of pre-requisite coursework as a part of your program during your first year. For complete information on the Extended Master program, please see the Extended Master Program page of this website.
Master's Degree Applicants
To be considered for the Master's Degree Program , a minimum GPA of 3.0 is required. A GRE score is not required. Please see below for additional requirements.
I. University Requirements:
To apply to the university:
- Click on the following link: CSU Mentor
- Select that you want to apply to San Jose State. You’ll be taken to a page that asks for the following information:
- Term Applying For: Select: Fall 2010
- Major Program Objective: Select: Education-Speech Pathology
- Degree Objective: Select: M.A. (you will select this option whether you are applying as an EM or MA)
- Educational Credential Objective: Select: Not Interested in a Credential Program
- Remember that you will have to submit an official transcript to SJSU's GAPE,for every college/university previously attended.Please make
sure you leave yourself enough time to have your previous university send the transcripts to get to SJSU before the deadline.
*You must have one set of transcripts sent directly to:
Graduate Admissions and Program Evaluations
San Jose State University
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95192-0025
You must also include a second set of transcripts with your department application. Please see section II for details. - Make two copies of your completed CSU Mentor Application: One is for your personal records and one is to send in with your Department application.
II. Departmental Requirements:
CHECKLIST
(The PDF version of this checklist MUST be included with your application.)
- Copy of Your CSU Mentor Application (The CDS Department is aware that CSU Mentor instructs you not to send a copy of its application to the university. However, when you include a copy of it in your application packet, you are sending it to the department and not to the university.)
- Official Transcripts Remember you are required to request two copies your transcripts from each university attended (community colleges included).One copy must be sent directly from each university to SJSU’s GAPE, and the other copy must be sent to you to include in your application packet. To avoid jeopardizing the review of your application, DO NOT SEND individual transcripts to the department; you must include them with your application packet.
- Letter of Intent (2 pages, double-spaced) In an essay format, please respond to the following questions: What has happened in your life that has made you feel that speech pathology is the career for you? Moreover, why have you chosen to purse this career at San Jose State University? Finally, what are your post graduation career goals?
- A One Page Resume
- Three Applicant Evaluation and Recommendation Forms [pdf] Please ask each recommender to return the forms directly to you for you to include in your packet. Packets that do not have all 3 recommendation forms included will not be reviewed. This form was recently updated. If you have a different version, you must discard it and use the new form from the above link in order for your application to be submitted for review.(*If you are currently enrolled in the SJSU undergraduate program in CDS you do not have to submit recommendation forms with your application.)
- CBEST (Optional) : If you have already taken the California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST), please submit a copy of your results with your application packet. If you have not taken the California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST) please keep in mind that you will be required to do so during your first year in the program in order to be admitted into candidacy.
* Please view the NEW and REVISED Application Instruction Letter [pdf] for FALL 2010. There are specific details and a mandatory checklist on one of the pages that must be included in your application packet.
Questions? Please see the FAQ Page for detailed answers to all your questions regarding the application process.
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