{"id":6542,"date":"2013-10-23T19:49:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T02:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=6542"},"modified":"2020-07-16T21:56:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T04:56:06","slug":"finished-sjsu-and-samuel-merritt-grad-school-application-hurray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/23\/finished-sjsu-and-samuel-merritt-grad-school-application-hurray\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished SJSU and Samuel Merritt Grad School Application! Hurray!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just mailed off the applications for 2 of the 3 schools I&#8217;m applying to. This is the culmination of 2 full years of work. If I&#8217;m accepted, I&#8217;ll have another 2 1\/2 years of school before receiving a <strong>Master&#8217;s Degree in Occupational Therapy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time I&#8217;ve sent applications. This time my application is much stronger:<br \/>\n* I have completed all of the prerequisite courses<br \/>\n* I raised my &#8220;last 60 units&#8221; GPA from 3.67 to 3.87<br \/>\n* I raised my GRE score to include a 4.5 on the writing: 160 Verbal, 150 Math, 4.5 Writing. (previous attempt was 161, 156, 4.0)<br \/>\n* Starting at having 100 hours at a private pediatric clinic, I added another 78 in a (hardcore) non-public school for non-verbal autistic kids<br \/>\n* My Personal Essay kicks ass! Thank you Megan, Alexis, Bean, and Tami for writing help!<\/p>\n<p>Done:<br \/>\nSan Jose State University, San Jose, CA<br \/>\nSamuel Merritt University, Oakland, CA<\/p>\n<p>Almost Done: (not due for 4 months)<br \/>\nDominican University, San Rafael, CA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just mailed off the applications for 2 of the 3 schools I&#8217;m applying to. This is the culmination of 2 full years of work. If I&#8217;m accepted, I&#8217;ll have another 2 1\/2 years of school before receiving a Master&#8217;s Degree in Occupational Therapy. This is the second time I&#8217;ve sent applications. This time my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school","category-notable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}