Program Application Essay Prompts

CMHC Admission Essays

We would like to know more about you and your interest in becoming a counselor. Please address each of the following questions to the best of your ability. Please give careful thought to your answers. Consider these formal essays, paying attention to clarity of thought, grammar, and punctuation. Please answer the following prompts

Essay 1: Becoming a Counselor (1-2 pages)

1. Where does your desire to become a counselor come from? What skills do you already have that will assist you in being successful in an online education program?
2. What would you like to do with your graduate degree in counseling? Feel free to include the population and setting you believe you would like to work with.
3. How will attending the CMHC program at Eastern Oregon University assist you with meeting your goals? Please speak to the university and program values and mission.

Essay 2: Self as Counselor (1-2 pages)

1. Openness to feedback from instructors is an essential component of growth during a graduate counseling program. Please describe a time when you received feedback that was difficult for you to hear. What were your initial reactions and how were you able to work through those initial reactions in order to act upon the feedback given?
2. Please describe something you have recently done to further your OR others’ understanding of privilege and systemic oppression in our society. This could be a conversation, book, activism/advocacy, or something else. In what ways have you applied your learning? 
3. Is there anything else you would like us to know about you in consideration of your application?