Graduate Admissions Essay
This is an admissions essay for graduate school. I am seeking my master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling. Please write an essay of no more than three double spaced pages in response to the three questions below. This essay should reflect my developing knowledge of and interest in the counseling profession and my potential place within it. Please address each of the areas identified below:
1. What draws you to counseling and the particular concentration you have chosen within that profession.
2. Discuss any personal and professional experiences that have helped prepare you to begin graduate studies in the counseling profession.
3. Share your perspective regarding the role of multiculturalism and social justice in counseling.
This is very serious and important essay that must be coherent and well written or else it can jeopardize my acceptance into the master’s program. I please ask that you answer each question precisely.
– For question #1, please talk about the importance of mental health, the stigmas behind mental health and how my goal as a future professional counselor is to help individuals heal and gain an overall well-being both mentally and emotionally. Emphasize and elaborate on my desires to specialize in clinical mental health and what draws me to this field such as, engendering hope to individuals in our diverse communities.
– For question #2, I will upload for you some of my personal and professional experiences to incorporate in this section. However, please feel free to elaborate accordingly to my personal and professional experiences.
– For question #3, please elaborate freely on this topic in regard to “the role of multiculturalism and social justice in counseling”.
Please avoid creating a story about my life or getting into nonreal personal details about my life, just answer these questions precisely with information I have provided and with facts and research regarding mental health and counseling. Thank you for your help.
