Daniela Tullio

What do you mean by 1 year of relative experience? The one good thing is that I'm not making a major change, I'm going from psychology to social work. I don't know if this is considered relative field experience but I have worked in 3 different psychology labs doing psychological research, one which included administering assessments to preschool aged children. I volunteered as a hotline counselor, where I answered 4 different hotline, worked over 200 hours and had 75+ hours of training. I also did some volunteer work at an elderly community in Tallahassee. Would you say this is the sort of thing they are looking for? or what exactly do you mean by "relative experience?"

Hi guys, I am currently a Psych. Major at Florida State University. In December I applied to PhD counseling programs and needless to say it didnt work out. I started to weigh out my options and have decided to attend an MSW program and get a LCSW. Potentially I want to do counseling/therapy in the future. But I am so new to all of this. I talked to an advisor at FSU, who basically told me to use the CSWE for accredited programs and that most of the programs have later deadlines. However as Ive been doing my research on schools, it seems like a lot of schools have deadlines that have already passed. Thus I was wondering when do most MSW programs have deadlines? (because it seems to vary a lot online) For instance with psychology you want to apply between december-jan. Does the same apply to MSW programs Also I noticed that for some MSW programs they offer spring admissions only to those with a BSW, is this true for most programs? and do a lot of programs offer spring admissions? would it be wise to wait until the spring to apply? In other words is it too late to apply to a lot of programs? and or if you were me would you wait it out until next year to apply or would you apply for the spring semester? Help!!!