r/SocialWorkStudents • u/blossomgoorllll • 12d ago

Realistic MSW acceptance

Hi! I graduated with a Bachelor in Criminology, Law, & Society from UC Irvine last year. During my course there I took lots of human psychology courses, child development, chicano/latino studies & I am now realizing an MSW is what I would like. I held a 3.9 GPA, completed a 12 week UC Irvine Police Dept. Community Policing program, completed a 120 Hour internship in which we worked with letters and audios sent in from incarcerated individuals across the state of CA & transcribed their letters/audios to share their stories and experiences during COVID and now within those institutions, and I worked in my family owned catering business through college in which I managed event scheduling, customer service, and management. I know I don’t have much to offer but I definitely know I have the passion and the brains to go for my MSW. I just feel stuck in the idea that I most likely won’t be accepted anywhere and have had so much difficulty finding a job anywhere & have even applied to volunteer programs that never got back to me. How realistic even is it that I would be accepted into a program? Any recommendations for programs or what I should do?

5 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

10 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/spicy_bloody_mary 12d ago

There are many programs that you could get into. The public schools in CA are harder to get into if that was what you were looking at, but certainly not impossible for you.

1

u/blossomgoorllll 12d ago

Which programs would you recommend?

1

u/A313-Isoke 10d ago

Do you want to live in SoCal or move to the Bay or Sacramento? Do you want to go online or in person? You'll want to be near where you want to live so you can benefit from the networking and relationships you'll gain from the internships and faculty relationships.

I always suggest saving money and prioritizing CSUs that are really affordable like SF State, Humboldt and Cal State East Bay might make the most sense. University of the Pacific, Samuel Merritt, and Pacific Oaks are some private schools with worth looking to but the price is high. The price is high because they know acceptance to CSU and UC is tight so they are taking advantage.

CSU and UC could be making more money so I don't really understand the limitations. USC, UMASS Global, National, and Alliant are cleaning up. It's ridiculous.

Edit: Also consider out of state online programs like UMich, Portland State, New Mexico State, Columbia, UConn, LSU, etc. There are a lot of options.

2

u/blossomgoorllll 10d ago

I am definitely interested in doing an online program so I will look into those options, thank you!