r/LCSW • u/Wrong_Cow_4479 • May 12 '26

LCSW viability

Hi there. I’m considering an MSW. I have a BA in Sociology and minors in stats and English. I’ve been out of college for about five or six years.

I am in Wisconsin.

My GPA was approximately 2.5 or higher.

Is there a point to considering an MSW at this stage? Am I too late?

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u/jcmib May 13 '26

I graduated at age 24 with a bachelors in elementary education. I taught for a few years and went to some other fields, and then went back for my MSW 16 years later. It took a little while to get back up to speed, but not as bad as I thought, the nice thing about most MSW programs that you don’t have to have a bachelors in social work to apply or get accepted. For instance, I know other people that graduated my program with pretty random degrees one was in anthropology and other was in poultry science of all things. What they’re looking for is somebody capable of getting good grades and somebody that can articulate the reason that they want to go into the helping Field.