Personal Statement Criteria

Your social work Personal Statement must be double-spaced and four to five pages in length. Within your Personal Statement, please address the following:

1. Why are you a “good fit” with the mission of EMU’s MSW program?
2. In our society, there are many types of privilege. Identify and discuss ways in your life in which you have been in a position of privilege, and how it might affect your work as a social worker.
3. Discuss your reasons for why you selected your specific concentration (i.e., mental illness/chemical dependency, families, and children, or services to the aging)?
4. What are your mission-related career interests and post-graduation plans?
5. Describe a situation where your attitudes about a particular stigmatized population (e.g., LGBT, people of color, persons in poverty, etc.) were challenged, and what you learned from that experience. In what ways are you ready to have your attitudes and social stereotypes be further challenged within an educational setting?
6. What attracts you to the MSW program at Eastern Michigan University?

Note: You must complete the Personal Statement according to the requirements of the School of Social Work.