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ORIGINAL: Alumbrado

Statements like the above, along with the highly suspicious story of two instructors being able to withold an earned degree because your 'mental health' is based on partying with the undergrads, and your OP claim about private schools and social sciences, leads me to wonder if you really understand how higher education works.

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ORIGINAL: Alumbrado

Statements like the above, along with the highly suspicious story of two instructors being able to withold an earned degree because your 'mental health' is based on partying with the undergrads, and your OP claim about private schools and social sciences, leads me to wonder if you really understand how higher education works.
There is nothing wrong with my mental health. I have plenty of friends outside of school and no problem socializing with them. I'd have friends at the college as well if there wasn't such an age gap. The young traditional 18-21 year old social work students hang out together on campus, but at 34, I don't see how I can fit in. Because I don't hang out with them, I'm seen as lacking social skills and they are questioning whether or not to admit me to the social work program. I didn't say anything about partying with them. Of course I understand how higher education is supposed to work. It's supposed to be based on academic achievement. Apparently, at private colleges, it's based on a popularity contest. This wouldn't happen in a public college.

Are you aware that 'social work' is a job certification, such as LCSW, while 'social sciences' encompasses psychology, criminology, and sociology degrees?
duh, like I didn't already know that

First you get a degree from a regionally accredited school, then you satisfy the certification  requirements in whatever profession you decide to work in.  Two different ballgames.
Of course it's two different ballgames, but you can't get certified without the degree. Since social work licensing involves a criminal background check, there's no reason why there should be an approval into the social work program to get the degree. But there is.

If NASW picks and choose between regionally accredited schools as you imply, I'd like to see a link.
I'm not sure how that works. All I know is that my social work instructor at the junior college told the class to be very careful when selecting a college to transfer to. Apparently, his daughter was offered a social work degree by a college and when he went up there with her, he found out they weren't even approved.

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ORIGINAL: MadRabbit

I imagine this is another case of the truth of whatever is going on being distorted by DBG's neurosis and need for a pity party about how everyone in the world is out to get her and ruin her life.

I imagine, as usual, this thread can carry on for another 6 pages and she will provide a counter to every reply as to why she can't do it, won't do it, how it's hopeless, how it's all going to go wrong, how it won't work out, and how her life is being ruined.