Please write a brief statement evaluating the applicant
Consider the following questions:
What are the applicant’s unique abilities, strengths and limitations? How do these relate to the applicant’s academic or professional goals?
What special personal qualities, capacities and interests does the applicant have that may distinguish him or her from others? How do these relate to the applicant’s academic or professional goals?
How does the applicant compare with outstanding contemporaries?
What is the applicant’s potential ability to apply knowledge and skills to professional practice?
If you are recommending an applicant to the School of Social Work, please also evaluate the functioning of the applicant in social, professional and supervisory relationships. Criteria for admission include the capacity to meet the intellectual and emotional demands of graduate professional education, develop professional self-awareness and self-evaluation and maintain professionally helpful relationships. Professional performance in social work requires an intellectual ability to engage in abstract reasoning, think conceptually and analytically, formulate mature judgments and be clear in self-expression, both in writing and verbally.