stheart
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I would love that!!! I'll send you a message. I hate being lonely so I'm really not looking forward to living by myself in a studio or 1 BR, if I can avoid it!
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I'm going to send in my deposit to UChicago. Columbia isn't worth asking Chicago for a 3-week extension.
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@HannahRae @MSWApplicantFall2018 They got back to me! I got $5,900 more! Woohoo!!! Thanks for the inspiration
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@HannahRae I just sent my email in! Fingers crossed
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Around 1/23, but I asked for an expedited review of my application! I also just submitted my Need Based Scholarship application.
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I applied like 1/23 or so. I asked for an expedited review of my application. Yes, it's per year but I'm only doing a 1-year program (Advanced Standing) so scholarships per year or not per year are negligible!
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Just got accepted!!! With an 8k scholarship. I was just about to call it a night here in the library, but this'll power me through!
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Just got into Washington University in St. Louis!!! With an 8k scholarship. I was just about to call it a night here in the library, but this'll power me through!
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Hey, I really like the way you think! From your posts, it seems like you and I have very similar interests and direction we want to go with social work.Â
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@TariSafarii Congratulations! Your grades and body of work is incredible! I've started to gain a picture of this year's applicant profile and quickly realized I don't stack up to y'all amazing folks.
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Nah. I think you're overthinking it. I got that email when I submitted my application on 2/14.
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Seconded. @DisasterBin
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@SWjdg Thanks for the info!
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@PeaceLoveSowk Your GPA now is fine for most MSW programs! If you can get higher, it'll be even better. If you look in my signature, I got into the highest ranked socw schools in the nation with just a 3.19! MSW programs really do value experience that's relevant to social work. It's not just regular ECs, as you know. It's more things like volunteering with a mental health foundation, a hospital, with a social worker, working in a social services organization, joining the campus nighttime hotline org, being a resident assistant or peer mentor, those kinds of things.You're absolutely right in planning to step it up over the summer and next year. Also, many students take a year or two off after college to do some social services work that boosts their application to social work programs. I've been talking to other admitted students and a good number of them are older than me because they did things like worked in schools, women's shelters, crisis hotlines, and other kinds of similar positions after college. It's good that you have some social services type volunteering at this point in your junior year. I'd say that if you didn't, and you only had the summer, to plan to do this for a year or two after college. You can apply to MSW programs with minimal or no social service work but you wouldn't be the most competitive applicant.MSW programs don't usually come with much funding. Most students pay for them primarily through personal resources and/or loans. Some programs offer scholarships; they are usually partial scholarships, and they are offered to the most competitive applicants. Right now, you probably aren't competitive enough to be offered any large scholarships. I would strongly recommend applying to MSW programs at the public university in your home state. You could also consider moving to a state that has lots of good MSW programs at public universities and working there for a year or two in social services; that kills two birds with one stone.
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There doesn't seem to be a lot of Macro placements, and that's what I want to do. There aren't the same Macro opportunities in St. Louis as other big city schools I applied to, like Seattle, Chicago, or New York City. I also hear that you have to look for your own practicum placement because you're competing with two other schools in St. Louis for placements. It is, however, an incredible research school and I love the kind of people they admit. It's very big-picture oriented. I just don't think my heart is into research; at least, not enough to move to St. Louis.
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@lost686girl I think it'll be in March when all the regular deadline people are accepted. I love WUSTL as an intellectual community so much but don't want to live in St. Louis their practicum placements don't look promising to me
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@Quinoa96 @MSWApplicantFall2018 I want to ask for more money, but don't know how to go about it. Makes me feel uncomfortable.
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I was accepted with 17k in scholarships, but then when the official award letter came they changed it to 12k. Don't know if that was intentional or a mistake. Didn't matter though because I turned their offer down
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I got 15k in scholarships. Unsure about loans.
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@CelestialJenkins cool! We applied to 3 of the same schools I asked them for an expedited review of my application because I have to let UChicago know by March 8th
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@Rockybaby You're incredible!!!
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Any WUSTL applicants waiting for a decision? I thought it'd be fun to make a thread seeing as there was none! Post here if you get any info from the school!
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University of Washington Seattle MSW
stheart replied to TooExcited&Nervous's topic in Social Workers Forum
Yup. And a phone call, because emails sent to my university address were bouncing back. -
Just got into UW Advanced Standing!!! Administration and Policy Practice concentration!
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University of Washington Seattle MSW
stheart replied to TooExcited&Nervous's topic in Social Workers Forum
Spoke too soon! Got in, Advanced Standing!!! Administration and Policy Practice concentration!