M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling Admission Requirements

Requirements for All Students

1. Application Deadline for Early Decision: January 7.
2. Application Deadline: March 1.
3. Bachelor's Degree from a Regionally Accredited Institution.
4. GPA 3.0 minimum.
5. GRE General Test. Institution Code 1905.
6. Official Transcripts from each individual school at which you ever enrolled - even for just one credit and even if it appears as transfer credit on your bachelor's transcript.
   • E-transcripts preferred. Address them to nancy.crane@wheaton.edu.
   • Mail hard copies to Nancy Crane, Graduate Admissions Dept., 501 College Av., Wheaton, IL 60187.
7. Application Form - online.
   • Form contains three essays, signed Statement of Faith, and Community Covenant.
8. Four Recommendations, which are online forms. Letters accepted as supplements to the forms.
   • Academic. Should be an instructor from whom you have taken a class.
   • Pastoral. Can be a Christian leader who is not a pastor.
   • Professional. Should be a person with whom you have had a supervisor-employee relationship, which can be in a non-paid context.
   • Mental Health Professional. Should be a licensed, mental-health practitioner or a psychology professor.
9. Resume - chronological.
10. Interview with a CMHC Faculty Member. We hope to use the interview to get to know students better and to give them an opportunity to get to know our program better.
    • NOTE: Applicants should submit their application forms at least forty-eight hours prior to the interview. Supplemental items are not required for the interview.
    • 12/14/18, Friday, 8:30 am CST, video conference.
    • 1/25/19, Friday, 8:30 am CST, video conference.
    • 2/15/19, Friday, Interview Day on campus. Time to be determined. We strongly recommend coming to this day.
    • 2/22/19, Friday, 8:30 CST, video conference.

To schedule an interview, please contact the CMHC Program Administrator at cmhc@wheaton.edu

Additional Requirements for International Students

• An English Proficiency exam (TOEFL or IELTS) is required for all international applicants instead of the GRE.
• If TOEFL or IELTS is waived, then MAT or GRE is required.
• Transcript evaluation report required with every official transcript.
• Please review Graduate International Admissions for full information.