dreamwithguts

Hi all, So I recently joined the grad cafe. Everything is super helpful! I am an undergrad senior hoping to apply for an MSW at NYU in a year or so..but I am worried.. I don't know how I stand in terms of the amount of experience I have. It would be great if I got honest opinions and advice! Sorry if this is long! Here is what I've done so far... I have 7 years of experience volunteering at church : tutoring kids, welcome desk person. But aside from that I haven't volunteered much until recently I have some experience from the American red cross club at my school during freshman and sophomore year. Begining Junior year, I joined an autism club and a club establishing friendships with intellectually and developmentally disabled people. And since the summer of senior year I started volunteering for: RAINN's online hotline for victims of sexual abuse, to be an intake counselor at an organization that serves and empowers urban youth, to volunteer and help home bound elderly, and I also am in a club that mentors disadvantaged high school students. I feel like I don't have much experience especially considering nowadays when everything is more competitive. I didn't really start getting myself out there with the volunteering until senior year and I do regret it but at the same time I really want to get into an MSW Program. Thanks so much for bearing with me in this long post!

I am an undergrad hoping to get an MSW at NYU in about two years, but I am not sure if I'm prepared for the amount of workload there will be..specifically paper writing. Will some MSW students be so kind as to give me more insight into the workload? specifically.. -approximate number and frequency of papers due in each class per semester -approximate LENGTH (# of pages) of each paper - what are the papers about? research material? opinions? something else? Thank you tons!