Current Student School of Social Welfare Application

School of Social Welfare Application

As a current UAlbany student interested in the Social Welfare major, you are required to complete this application, an essay, and obtain two references. All materials required for the application are contained in this form. Upon completion, please make sure to submit the application as it will be sent to the admissions committee for review.

The supplemental application includes:

A resume
A personal statement of not more than 3 pages which can be uploaded
Two letters of recommendation; one professional and one academic, which are submitted separately by the individuals you select.

Before completing the application, please take some time to consider your current readiness to undertake education and training to become a social work professional. The questions below are meant to help you decide about applying for the major and are not meant to be answered in writing in the personal statement.

The social work program is demanding and requires considerable time and attention. In addition,
functioning as a social worker requires a capacity to put one’s own issues aside in order to be
helpful to clients, so consider these questions carefully before you complete the application.

If you are working full-time, will you be able to attend classes 2 mornings per week for 2 years and be available to attend a 2 day, 16 hour per week field internship in the senior year?
What supports are available to you for assistance with family or personal issues if the need arises? What do you need to put in place before becoming a student so that you or others who depend on you will still be able to function once you are involved with the program?
Are you dealing with significant personal issues that would make you unable to function effectively in the social welfare major? Might your situation be made worse by the physical, financial or emotional stresses of being a social work student?

Please remember that the above questions are for your personal reflection only.

First Name

Preferred Name

Last Name

Birthdate

Albany ID

Email

Permanent Address

Country

Street

City

Region

Postal Code

Cell Phone Number

If you would like to share your gender identity, please feel free to do so:

Preferred Pronouns

He/Him

She/Her

They/Them

Applicants to the Undergraduate social welfare major can be reviewed for conditional admission to the Advanced Standing MSW program during their senior year in the social welfare major. Detailed information provided upon acceptance to the Program. Would you like to be considered for conditional admission to the Advanced Standing MSW program?

I would like to be considered for conditional admission to the Advanced Standing MSW program.

SOCIAL WELFARE/HUMAN SERVICES EXPERIENCE

Please list all experience, voluntary or paid, that relates to the field of social welfare or human services. Include a description of your responsibilities.

Organization 1

Your Position

Type of Position

Date you started your experience with this organization

Date you completed your experience with this organization

Number of hours per week

Responsibilities

Organization 2

Your Position

Type of Position

Date you started your experience with this organization

Date you completed your experience with this organization

Number of hours per week

Responsibilities

Organization 3

Your Position

Type of Position

Date you started your experience with this organization

Date you completed your experience with this organization

Number of hours per week

Responsibilities

Organization 4

Your Position

Type of Position

Date you started your experience with this organization

Date you completed your experience with this organization

Number of hours per week

Responsibilities

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

If there is any additional information about yourself that you would like the Admissions Committee to consider, please specify in the space below.

PERSONAL ESSAY

Please compose a personal essay that answers the following questions:

Why are you interested in social work as a career? Please discuss information about life circumstances, work or volunteer experiences that have influenced your choice of career.
Social workers help individuals, groups and/or communities engage in activities to achieve their goals. What are some of your strengths and lessons learned from your past that have helped you to help others? How have these strengths and lessons prepared you for social work?
Social workers are passionate about fighting against racism, sexism, and other social and economic injustices. Please specify an issue or social problem (e.g. HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, mental illness, homelessness) you are passionate about, and how this relates to your career goals.

Please save your personal essays in a .doc or .docx file and e-mail them to bswapplication@albany.edu.

REFERENCES

Reference forms should be completed by two individuals who can provide the reviewers with information about your qualifications and preparedness to become a professional social worker. One reference should know your academic work and one should know your work in the human services field. If you do not have either work or volunteer experience in human services, you should use two academic references. The individuals who provide the references should not be immediate family members or friends.

Prior to sending the Letter of Reference form to the individuals who will serve as references, check whether you waive the right to read the reference or not.

Please indicate whether or not you do or do not waive your right of access to this reference

I DO waive my right of access to this reference

I DO NOT waive my right of access to this reference

Please enter your first reference's email:

Please enter your second reference's email:

AFFIRMATION

ALL APPLICANTS MUST CHECK HERE:

I certify that the information provided in this application is true and complete to the best of my knowledge.