HarmReducer
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Hi there,
I'm just about finished with my MSW applications for Fall 2020. Just waiting on my last (slow!) recommender to make time to write the last two letters.
- Ohio State (online) - last piece submitted 12/2
- LSU (online) - waiting on last recommender
- UMD Baltimore (in person) - waiting on last recommender
I know that on Ohio's website it says that admissions are rolling, with an average notification time of 3–5 weeks. The UMD website doesn't give a time frame—it just says basically "keep checking back every week after completion." And I have no idea at all about LSU.
A bit about me:
- 38-year-old career changer (from publishing—last degree in 2012)
- Areas of interest: substance abuse; harm reduction; family systems; trauma; psychedelic therapy; marginalized communities
- 3.67 undergrad GPA (B.A. Communication / B.A. English)
- 3.74 graduate GPA (M.A. Linguistics)
- 4.0 GPA during my recent return to community college the past 3 semesters to gain relevant coursework
- GRE: 170 V / 155 Q / 4.5 AW
- Crisis line and harm reduction volunteer work
Ohio is my first choice because they have a substance misuse specialization and there's a professor there whose work I admire. Plus, I'd rather do online than in-person. UMD is second because I am hoping to move back to my hometown of Baltimore at some point in the next little while anyway, plus it has proximity to the research at Johns Hopkins (for which I have vague hopes for some kind of externship or volunteer research assistant position there eventually). LSU is third because they are affordable and fulfill my basic criteria of being asynchronously online, with enough of a generalist bent that I could hopefully kind of make it what I want it to be.
Right now I am mostly focusing on mentally willing my professor to finish my recommendations, plus obsessively checking my Ohio portal because it says "in review."
MSW Applications Fall 2020
in Social Workers Forum
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I got accepted to Ohio State today! That took only two weeks! Still waiting to hear back from UMD and LSU (they finally got my last recommendations on Friday), but Ohio was my first choice, so I'm 99% sure I'm going there.