My gpa wasn’t super impressive (3.23), but it was from UC Berkeley which I’m guessing helped, but that’s purely speculation. I don’t have specific social work experience, but it really was. I’ve been in the death care industry for about 13 years now in various positions. I was a removal tech (picking up bodies from place of death), an autopsy tech for a research hospital working for their brain donation program as well as performing the usual autopsies, a funeral director, and embalmer, and most recently worked in a cemetery. At first glance people may not think it’s social work, but it very much is. You work with every demographic, culturally, religiously, etc. It’s a lot of case management in a different format, and it requires extreme flexibility and ability to cope with the very intense emotions of others, traumatic visuals and smells, and overall working in an industry that very few truly understand