Your Academic Statement should be a concise statement of your plans for graduate study, your career goals, and how the MSU’s MSW graduate program will help you meet your career and educational objectives. When preparing your Academic Statement, please consider the following information: Briefly describe key experiences that led you to graduate studies. Examples might include employment, research experiences, internships, coursework, or extracurricular activities. Share specific, relevant examples of how these experiences helped you develop skills for success as a graduate student. For instance, you might demonstrate ways that you have synthesized knowledge from the classroom, developed professional skills, communicated effectively, acted as a leader, or gained other meaningful skills and responsibility over time. Explain how your goals for graduate study relate to your longer-term career plans, including the pursuit of additional degrees or certifications if applicable. How have you contributed to a diverse educational community, or how will you do so as a graduate student? How have you promoted understanding among persons of different backgrounds and ideas, or how will you do so as a graduate student and professional? Your Academic Statement should be concise and represent the equivalent of no more than two type-written pages (roughly 600 words).
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