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@Adelaide9216 I'm also from Canada and applying to PhD's in social work! Where are you applying? I'm having so much difficulty narrowing it down for US schools, as I don't have post MSW experience.

Just got accepted to Ryerson's Advanced One Year MSW - guess someone declined their offer and I got in. Good luck to all those waiting to hear back.

My last name starts with C and I didn't hear anything on ACORN from Uoft. I also applied to York and Ryerson for the MSW Advanced standing. Good luck to everyone!!

Where are you looking on ACORN? Mine says I'm not enrolled in any programs. I just spoke to Angela at the School and she said the system crashed earlier today, though they did get to enter some acceptances for some students for the Advanced MSW. She said by early next week applicants will begin to know.

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It's an epidemic at UBC in general - regardless of the department (google Stephen Galloway, . It is well documented that the School of Social Work particularly is a site of continual violence- especially in regards to sexual assault (I WISH I was kidding). If you'd like, I can put you in touch with advanced MSW students. UBC's social work reputation is that it engages in rigorous research and has a strong clinical program- and sadly, the school (because of the incompetent internal administration) cannot retain qualified professors and there is very little funding afforded to students and professors to engage in research. I would strongly suggest UVic's Advanced MSW in the future- I had colleagues and friends who did the program, and heard nothing but great things! Especially if your frameworks to practice lean anywhere towards anti-oppression/decolonization. I was accepted to their BSW program and turned it down in favour of UBC, because I enjoy classroom discussions. However, the level of violence that occurs in the classroom at the hands of professors ruined my love for classroom learning and was incredibly traumatic. If you are based in the Lower Mainland (sounds like you are), UVic students who do the program online meet regularly to do readings, projects, etc. together and are generally very supportive of one another. Also any review of the BSW or 2 year MSW program would be beneficial as all the professors are the same. I wish you the best of luck!

To all those folks interested in their MSW at UBC Vancouver campus: I can shed some light on why UBC Vancouver has decided to not offer their 2 year MSW program. I graduated from UBC Vancouver's BSW program in 2017 and participated in department's inner politics quite a fair bit. The school is incredibly small and the experience of BSW and MSW student's are identical, as 99% of the professor teach at both levels. Both MSW and BSW students review their respective programs, and the Racialized Student Caucus, the Indigenous Student's Caucus, and the Disability Student's Caucus, and the Queer Student's Caucus, and Equity Committee create their own surveys evaluating the cirrculum, professors, and general experiences by students. These results are published internally within the school amongst the student body, and are usually dismissed by the administration. To say dissatisfaction rates are high would be a gross understatement. The 2 year MSW program is under review by the BC college of social work education, and didn't implement the recommendations the last time the program was reviewed by the college several years ago. There are several reasons why the school didn't pass it's accreditation: 1) High turnover rate of professors and instructors. In my first year alone, 4 full-time professors quit. Two were Indigenous women, specializing in child welfare and trauma counselling respectively. One was a white queer woman whose area of practice was on mental health and disability justice/accomodation, and a white woman who is a strong trans advocate and a trauma researcher. The school also embarked on a search for a new Director of the School of Social work after the previous one stepped down. The search committee could not deliver adequate candidates (not one applicant was from British Columbia as the school's reputation is well known within the social work community), and as such the acting in-term Director took over for the next 3 years. I sat in on many of the interviews for various new hires, including the Director's, and the previous professors who left were my social work mentors. There were also 3 new various Practicum Coordinators at various times in 2016-2017, which created the biggest disorganized mess regarding students securing practicum placements. 2) UBC School of Social Work (located 7km from the Musqueam reserve) as disgustingly low graduation rates for Indigenous students, and actively tries to silence students who experience marginalization who speak out against the school's violent and incompetent administration. I could site hundreds of examples, but the school is living, breathing, human rights violation. 3) The school does not have the capacity to run two MSW programs, and was basically told to shut down one of them and try to rebuild it from scratch. 4) The school also does not offer a part-time program, which is a violation of the BC Code of Human Rights with regards to students with disabilities. Overall, my experience from applying to graduating was utterly torturous violence. I have worked in anti-violence organizations, child welfare, and in the LGBTQ2S community- and the school breeds institutional violence; racism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, and ablism at every turn. The professors (for the most part) have ZERO praxis (as the saying goes, those who can't do, teach). If I had a dollar for every time I witnessed or experienced violence, all 50k of my student loans would be paid back twice over with interest. Personally and professionally, I would actively disseude all applicants from giving UBC Vancouver Campus your hard earned dollars. I would not be surprised if the School of Social Work was shut down entirely in 5 years. There would be a lot less racialized and Indigenous youth in MCFD's care in the Lower Mainland- that's for sure.