For competitive schools, e.g., Iowa, Vanderbilt, Wisconsin, you should have a 3.5 both overall and in major. B. GRE- for the schools which require a GRE score they usually have a bottom limit of 1000 for combined scores for the verbal and quantitative scores. All graduate students are required to do a minimum of two clinical placements away from Miami. Students do not get paid to do externs. See the Extern Manual for more information about externs.
Students take externs during their second year of the graduate program and during the summer terms.
There are advantages and disadvantages to each, only you can decide what is best for you. An advantage of going to a different school is that one meets more professionals, both faculty and students, and learn more points of view. An advantage of staying at the same school is that you know the rules and it is easier to adapt. If you know that you definitely want to get a Ph.D., going to a graduate school where there is a Ph.D. program will mean that as a master's student you will be in classes with Ph.D. students. This will provide you with greater challenges, thereby making you feel more comfortable when you start your Ph.D. program.