Personal statement

Personal statement

I am applying to XXXX University for the Masters of Social Work program. My vocation aim is to work with underprivileged adolescents, particularly those with a annals of behavioral and emotional problems. I have important backdrop in this area; in supplement to a full-time place with a recruitment firm, I am a respite counselor for a goal assembly in a residential remedy setting. I desire to support this functional know-how with focused teaching in alignment to best assist those persons who most require our support as a society.

As with numerous social employees, I have selected this occupation as a outcome of problems in my own childhood as a ward of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts—a foster child. Both of my birth parents misused me bodily and strongly sensed, prompting the enclosures to lastingly eliminate me from their power. I subsequently shifted through a succession of foster dwellings and adolescent shelters. My high school years were, thus, highly traumatic. I could not have endured them without the help of the counselors and social employees that were so kind to me. And my difficulties were not all on an emotional level. I certainly assaulted economic adversities in alignment to graduate from high school and embark on a school career. I paid nearly all of my way through school employed a smallest salary job. This made my first two years particularly difficult. But I persevered, and accomplished an general G.P.A. of 3.5 for my last two years in school. I furthermore dedicated much of my time to campus undertakings and have held several authority positions.

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