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Facebook or Discord would be my preference!!

me too!

Ou this is less than what I calculated when I used (or tried to...) the tuition calculator! @Siikun, is there any chance you remember what the advanced program came to tuition cost wise?

Hey y'all! I just got accepted to Carleton's Advanced Standing (1 year) program!!! My last name is in the first half of the alphabet and my status changed to Decision Being Made by Post Doctoral & Graduate blah blah either late last night or this morning. Movement is happening!! GOOD LUCK!!!! For reference, I have a BSc in Psych and I'm finishing up my BSW currently. I had about 8900 total hours on my "portfolio" they have us fill out. I'd say about ~700 of my ~1200 volunteer hours were direct and hard to say with my paid work because it varies from super direct mental health work to stuff that only certain reviewers may consider relevant (like customer service). Maybe about 50/50 for that. I think I have about a 3.95/4.0 scale but I'm not completely sure because both of my degrees use different scales. Please let me know if I can answer any other questions. Reading this thread is the only thing that keeps me sane so I'd love to be that for someone else. Going to go scream now

Some definitely don't (wild!!)! I know Western doesn't, maybe UoT? Don't think Lakehead does but they do offer a TA opportunity

Mine looks the exact same! I wonder if it's because the system isn't used to courses only being 2 weeks long, so it thinks they're all happening concurrently? I also tried out that "proof of enrolment" form to test whether it's registering that I signed up for all 4 courses, and it's considering me a part time student despite signing up for all 4... I really want Madge to email us lol I want answers for all of this!!!

I wonder when Madge is going to email us information. It starts in less than 2 months a other than the course registration, I feel like I'm in the dark lol!

Yes I have a feeling waitlists will have less movement this year after all the deferrals last year. Fingers crossed once York sends out their decisions that we have at least a bit of movement with the other schools!!

I think mine took a couple of days for sure! I checked maybe a day or two after I got my offer and there was nothing, and then I didn't check for awhile but next time I logged on it was there. Not a great answer here lol, but it definitely takes a little bit to show up!!

Thank you so much, that is so helpful!!

Hiya, does anyone know how OSAP works for this program? It starts at such a weird time in the year that I'm not sure how to go about applying for OSAP. Do we apply for 2020-2021 school year to cover Jul-Aug and reapply once 2021-2022 is available for the rest of the months?

I personally went ahead and formally accepted my offer to Orillia, however I plan to remove myself from the acceptance pool if I hear back good news from the MSW program I applied to before the July start of this HBSW. I have a funny feeling that most people who were accepted to this program and 2 yr MSW programs probably didn't bother declining this offer and are simply going to let it expire on it's own (April 30th deadline). If anyone in that position is reading this: please go on to OUAC and decline your acceptance if you don't plan to attend the HBSW!! It's stressful being on a waitlist and I think you would make someones day by starting the waitlist movement a week before the acceptance deadline Good luck you guys. I think there will be lots of movement soon.

I really think that you could! I know at my workplace (CMHA) we have some clinical based positions/positions that would work as a good foot in the door for clinical roles, and while they require a MSW +registration for some of those positions, they don't specifically focus on what school it came from when hiring because experience is much more favoured. I'd suggest taking part in as many clinical professional development and clinical-based volunteer opportunities as you can over the next 2 years, and those will help out with future job apps in tandem with your MSW Not sure what Windsor's practicum placement is like either, but if you can go pretty clinical with that I think you'd be set!

Hey, not sure how helpful I'll be here cause I'm not speaking from first hand experience, but someone earlier in this thread said that for Windsor they just contacted the admissions contact (so whether you've been contacted by a specific person from Western, or simply just socialwork@kings.uwo.ca) and said they'd like to revoke their acceptance. Congrats on multi-school acceptances!!! That's amazing!

Congrats to everyone getting Laurier acceptances!! I did my undergrad there and absolutely LOVED the school and city :') Definitely good reason that it ranks #1 in student satisfaction year after year. Best of luck to everyone still waiting!!