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500-word maximum statement of purpose:

Please include a brief narrative describing

· Yourself

· career goals and the importance of graduate study in clinical mental health counseling at this point in your life. 

· Include relevant volunteer or professional experiences that you feel have prepared you for this profession. 

· You may discuss influences on your intellectual development, educational and cultural opportunities (or lack of them) which have been available to you, and the ways in which these experiences have affected you.

This should not be a recording of facts already listed on the application; it should give the Admissions Committee a better sense of who you are and why you are applying to the clinical mental health counseling specialization at the University