What are my chances of being accepted into a PhD program?
There are no statistics on the rate of acceptance into PhD programs. However, in ASHA’s Online Guide to Graduate Programs individual programs have the opportunity to reveal number of applicants and number of acceptances for the PhD program for the preceding year. What may be the more important question to consider is why people don’t get accepted into PhD programs. Acceptance into a PhD program depends on many factors that are specific to the institution/department, as well as on the characteristics of the applicants. Realize that if you do not get accepted into a program, it may have less to do with your qualifications and more to do with insufficient funds to support you, or that the advisor you wish to work with does not have an available space, and so on. Apply to the programs that you have identified as a good fit with your interests and needs, and if you do not get accepted into the program inquire as to why you were not accepted. You may need to consider re-applying to a particu
