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Early Graduate Admissions Program Office of Graduate and Professional Studies 1 What is Early Graduate Admissions? Assist departments Admission in recruiting of REU & Apply decision high quality USRG early for September domestic

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Early Graduate Admissions Program

Office of Graduate and Professional Studies

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What is Early Graduate Admissions?

  • A program open only to summer undergraduate

research students participating in a structured research group

  • Students can apply early for the Fall 2020 semester
  • Admittance decision in September 2019

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REU & USRG students Apply early for Fall 2020 Admission decision September 2019 Assist departments in recruiting of high quality domestic and URM graduate students

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  • May apply to any

participating department

  • Students have until

April 15, 2020 to decline

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What is Early Graduate Admissions?

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Motivation for EGA

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  • Money and time for recruiting events/activities to

expand our pool of high quality domestic graduate students.

  • Competitive student interest and opportunity to

discover excellent researchers.

  • Early admissions programs are becoming a

national best practice.

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Benefits

  • Offer of admission in pocket

when beginning senior year (strategy used by industry)

  • Focus on applying for funding

in senior year

  • Students admitted will be highly

considered for appropriate University Level Fellowships

 Graduate Diversity Excellence Fellowship

  • Addresses goal of increasing

high quality domestic and underrepresented minority graduate students

  • Personal performance

assessment in addition to traditional application materials

  • Early pool of potential high

quality fellowship nominees

  • Students are enthusiastic about

having a TAMU admission decision

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Stud Student Univers rsity ity / D Departm tmen ent

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Program Timeline

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  • Deadline for departments to notify OGAPS if participating
  • Informational session for USRG students
  • Informational session for REU students

June

  • EGA applications due to OGAPS
  • EGA applications forwarded to departments
  • Departments begin notifying OGAPS of admission decisions

July

  • Departments notify OGAPS of admission decisions

August

  • Final department notifies OGAPS of admission decisions
  • Students notified of departments’ decision
  • Deadline for students to submit online application – Application fee

is paid by OGAPS

September

  • Departments enter admission decisions and Admissions Office

sends official letter of admission

  • Students officially admitted to TAMU through Office of Admissions

November

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EGA Application Materials

  • Official Transcript

From REU/USRG Application

  • Two letters of recommendation

From REU/USRG packet

  • Statement of Purpose
  • Resume/CV

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If Accepted

  • Students must complete online application (e.g.

ApplyTexas, EngineeringCAS, etc.) no later than September 30th

  • Students should take the GRE by November 2019

and submit scores to department to be competitive for university/college/department fellowships

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EGA Student Demographics

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5 10 15 20 25 30 35 2012 - 2013 2013 - 2014 2014 - 2015 2015 - 2016 2016 - 2017 2017- 2018 2018- 2019 Applicants 19 29 31 8 26 16 18 Applicants Accepted 13 22 28 6 23 15 16 Attending TAMU 10 12 11 1 15 4 # of Participating Programs/Departments 22 17 22 7 12 23 32 Fellowship Awardees 7 4 4 1 1 Applicants Applicants Accepted Attending TAMU # of Participating Programs/Departments Fellowship Awardees

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Participating Departments

10 Department: Program Level Participation: Accepting previous year REU Experiences: Ag Leadership, Ed & Comm MS (Thesis Option), PhD Yes Biological & Ag Engineering All Yes Biochemistry & Biophysics PhD No, 2019 only Entomology MS and PhD yes Construction Science MS in Construction Management yes Public Service and Administration MPSA Yes Biomedical Engineering MS, MEN, PhD Yes Chemical Engineering MS AND PhD Yes Computer Sci & Engineering MS Only Yes Electrical & Computer Engineering ME, MS, PhD Yes Mechanical Engineering ME, MS, PhD Yes Materials Science & Eng MSEN, MENGR, MS, PhD Yes Nuclear Engineering ME, MS, PhD Yes Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution MS in Engineering Technology Yes Geography MS, PhD, and MGSC last summer only Genetics PhD last summer, forward Marine Biology MS (Thesis option) and PhD Yes Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences MPH No, 2019 only Environmental and Occupational Health MPH in Occupational Health & Safety; MPH in Environmental Health No, 2019 only Epidemiology and Biostatistics MPH No, 2019 only

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Applications are due by 5:00pm on Friday, July 19th

– Email to ogaps-grad-recruit@tamu.edu or – In person to Jack K. Williams Administration Building, suite 112

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Questions?

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Early Graduate Admission Program

  • Dr. Shannon D. Walton

shannon@tamu.edu

Office of Graduate and Professional Studies

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