GAPP – Student Outreach and Retention Center

About

The SOAR Graduate Access Preparation program is focused on demystifying the graduate school process for historically underrepresented, undocumented, low-income, and other underserved populations to increase enrollment, retention, and graduation rates in graduate programs. The program will consist of three main components:

1) 1.3 Seminar Unit series that will include:

An Orientation and overview: Community building with Graduate mentor & field study intern
What is graduate school & the core components of graduate school
Diversity matters in graduate education
How to research graduate programs & creating your action plan for applying
Mentorship and faculty research
Statement of Purpose/Personal Statement writing
Financing graduate school, searching, and applying for fellowships
Graduate Student Panels (networking/connecting with current graduate school)
Close out: Student portfolio presentations and next steps with GRE summer course.

2) Graduate Student in-residence mentorship

3) Students will need to attend 2 office hour sessions with the Graduate student in-residence throughout each quarter.

Students who apply, are accepted into the cohort, and complete 2 quarters of the program will have the opportunity receive a FREE summer GRE prep course completion of the workshop series.