Now for both universities, I will be interviewed by the faculty and staff before entrance into the program. On February 12th, 2010, I was sweating bullets from 8am – 2pm in the longest interview of my life at Winthrop University!!
Let me tell you what happened…..
INTRO SPEECH – So they eased your fears by giving you a nice PowerPoint about the program and how to get your state licensure to be a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). By the way, the process to getting this licensure is nothing short of cutting off your finger for admission. I mean, I will have to take 60 CREDIT HOURS (OMG that is a lot of classes with mean a lot of money), 2 years worth of 2000 counseling hours and you have to take a 5 hour test!! OMGeeee!!
ESSAY – Then after the soothing PowerPoint, they lead all 42 of us to a computer lab to type up a 300 word essay on the subject of counseling. In specific, they wanted you to write about if counseling is an ART or a SCIENCE or both. I mean can you imagine writing a paper in APA writing style for only 45 minutes!! Surprisingly, this activity was quite easy for me and enjoyable out of everything.
GROUP ACTIVITY – Then after feeling all overwhelmed, we had to go into a small room that was being videotaped by the faculty. In there you had to pretend to be the counselor and the client and act out a counseling session. That was the most embarrassing to endure because everyone was watching you. SIGH…I need a drink after that!!
GROUP INTERVIEW – This was a part that I wish I could have changed. The faculty then called each person and asked them one interview question. You had to answer in front of everyone. That format was a bit nerve wrecking but I made it through with my sanity still intact!
After all of that, I just want to crawl into bed and stay there for 2 days!! I don’t know what is going to happen at the NC STATE interview. I will let you know then.
Wish me luck on the next one!!
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