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Program Description:
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The purpose of the M.S.E. degree in School Counseling is to train school counseling professionals with expert skills in coordinating school counseling programs, supporting the teaching/learning process, counseling with students, and consulting with persons having significant influence on students' well-being and development. This program provides graduate-level study which is based on the comprehensive developmental model of school guidance and counseling. This program prepares K-12 counselors to promote development of skills and experiences needed by all students for success in school and later life, to develop prevention programs focused on predictable hindrances to development of identifiable groups of students, to conduct interventions for remediation of individual concerns, and to intervene with both groups and individuals in crisis situations.
Throughout the program, school counseling trainees are required to engage in experiences intended to increase their self-awareness and promote their own personal and professional development. The education and developmental orientation of the School Counseling Program provides students with unique expertise that makes them the appropriate choice for counseling practice in a school setting. Students in the School Counseling Program experience a depth of training and acquire a level of expertise for practice in the school setting that is comparable tot that of counselors in other settings.
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Admission Requirement:
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Admission Requirement:
To be considered for admission to the School Counseling Program, applicants must present evidence of qualities consistent with those required for effective school counseling practice. The written statement prepared by the applicant, combined with the appraisal/recommendation forms from references, will be used as the basis for committee members' judgment of the applicant's personal and interpersonal qualities. All persons admitted to the program are required to meet the same standard in regard to these qualities.
Applicants also must present evidence of potential ability to perform academic work at the advanced graduate level. Standardized test proficiency and past grade performance provide the primary data for judging academic ability; other indicators, such as quality of writing in the applicant's prepared statement, also will be considered. Based on the combination of test proficiency and past academic performance, an applicant may qualify for either unconditional or conditional admission status.
1. Unconditional Admission Status. Academic proficiency for unconditional admission may be established through satisfaction of either of the following criteria:
a) A minimum cumulative undergraduate grade point average of 3.00 (or 3.25 on the last 60 hours of undergraduate work) and a raw score of at least 30 on the MAT or a minimum score of 790 on the combined verbal and quantitative sections of the GRE, or
b) A minimum cumulative undergraduate grade point average of 2.75 (or 3.00 on the last 60 hours of undergraduate work) and a raw score of at least 35 on the MAT or a minimum score of 820 on the combined verbal and quantitative sections of the GRE, or
c) Unconditional admission to the Graduate School, a raw score of at least 30 on the MAT or a minimum score of 790 on the combined verbal and quantitative sections of the GRE, and a minimum cumulative graduate grade point average of 3.25 on 12 or more hours with no more than one graduate-level course with a grade of "C" and no grade less than a "C".
2. Conditional Admission Status. Academic proficiency for conditional admission may be established through satisfaction of either of the following criteria:
a) A minimum cumulative undergraduate grade point average of 2.50 when the GPA multiplied by the MAT score multiplied by 10 is at least 600, or
b) A minimum cumulative undergraduate grade point average of 2.75 when the GPA multiplied by the GRE score is at least 1850, or
c) Unconditional admission to the Graduate School, raw score of at least 30 on the MAT or a minimum score of 790 on the combined verbal and quantitative sections of the GRE, and a minimum cumulative graduate grade point average of 3.00 on 12 or more semester hours with no more than one course with a grade of "C" and no grade less than a "C".
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