Please provide a personal statement that addresses the following areas:
- Educational Objectives
Please describe the educational and career objectives that motivated you to apply to the MSW program. Relate these objectives to your personal experiences and life goals. - Professional Motivation
Discuss any personal obstacles or life circumstances that you have had to overcome. How have your efforts to overcome these obstacles influenced your decision to enter the field of social work? Please describe your personal knowledge, identification, and/or experience with disenfranchised communities as a catalyst in your social justice practices perspective and motivation. - Work/Volunteer Experience
Discuss any experiences you have had in providing services to, or working with, a specific disenfranchised group or community. Please describe your professional knowledge, identification, and/or experience with that disenfranchised community.
Your personal statement should not be more than 3 typed pages, double-spaced, 12-point font and it must include all three areas listed above. One page is about 220-270 words.
Graduate school and the social work profession require a significant amount of writing. As part of your application for admission to the MSW program at SF State, you are to write an essay detailed below. This essay will be used to assess your writing skills along with critical and analytical thinking. Please provide citations for all sources used in your essay, including, but not limited to, expert opinion, scholarly articles, and media sources (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc). Your statement must NOT exceed 2 typewritten, 12-point font (Times New Roman), double-spaced pages, one-inch margins). One page is about 220-270 words.
Select a social issue/social problem that you are likely to encounter as a social worker in today's society/world. Discuss the origins and impact of that issue/problem, and develop a social justice response to this problem with the assumption that you have the resources and power to promote change.
Please go to the Recommendation section of the CalState Apply website to submit the request to your recommender. Information on how to request a letter of recommendation and how to upload the letter for your recommender can be found here.
Please advise your recommender to look for this email in their inbox, as well as their spam or junk-mail folder.
Please note:
- Leave ample time prior to the deadline to submit your required reference.
- Request confirmation of online recommendation submission from your recommender.
- Please check your email for a notification when your recommender has submitted a letter of recommendation. You are responsible for following up with your recommender to make sure that the required letter of recommendation is submitted by the deadline.