APPLICATION

Dear Prospective Student:

Thank you for your interest in graduate studies in English at the University of California, Riverside. If you plan to apply to our graduate program,  complete the Preliminary Information form as soon as possible. This will be sent directly to the English Department and allow us to evaluate your interests and qualifications before we receive your application for graduate admission.

UCR’s Department of English accepts applications for the fall quarter only. To receive full consideration for financial assistance, your completed application and all supporting documents must be received by December 10 (or the following Monday, should the 10th fall on a weekend). We will continue to accept applications up to and including January 25th (for international applicants) or March 15th (for domestic applicants), but please keep in mind that completed files received after December 10 are unlikely to receive consideration for most forms of financial support.

APPLICATION PROCESS

STEP ONE:
Request that your official general GRE scores be sent to UCR’s English department at your earliest opportunity. (This is time-sensitive as it takes 2-3 weeks for the campus to receive official scores. The exam must have been taken within the past five years prior to September of the year that you are requesting admission. (In other words, if you are applying for fall 2005, the GREs cannot have been taken prior to September 2000.) The subject exam (Literature in English) is no longer required. To insure that your scores arrive by December 10, you should take the GRE no later than early October. The GRE school code is 4839 and the department code is 2501.

STEP TWO:
Complete UCR’s official online Application for Graduate Admission at http://www.graduate.ucr.edu/admtoc.html. On the application, next to Primary Degree Objective, indicate M.A. only if the Masters is your final or “terminal” degree objective and you do not intend to pursue a Ph.D. If your ultimate goal at UCR is receive a Ph.D., indicate Ph.D. as your Primary Degree Objective. Admission to the Ph.D. program is open to qualified candidates with a B.A. or M.A. degree. Applicants to the Ph.D. are eligible for a full range of financial support. Support opportunities for students applying to M.A. program are more limited.

STEP THREE:
After you have completed your online application, call up the Graduate Application Disclaimer Statement. Complete, print, and sign the Disclaimer at the bottom, then staple your check to it. The check should be made out to "Regents, UC" in the amount indicated online. Send your check immediately after you have completed your online application  to the following address:
University of California, Riverside , Department of English, Attention: Tina Feldmann, Riverside, CA 92521-0323.

STEP FOUR:
Also call up the ‘Letter of Recommendation Form (To be submitted by all applicants).’ Print, complete, and sign three copies, giving one copy to each of the three faculty members whom you have selected to write a letter of recommendation for your application packet.  This form should accompany each faculty  letter and sent in a sealed envelope with each professor’s signature placed across the back of the envelope, or you may ask  your Career Services Center to send your letters of recommendation directly to our office (address listed above).

STEP FIVE:
Compile and submit the following materials in one envelope, in hard copy form (single-sided documents only):

1. Two signed copies of your Statement of Purpose.
   
   
2. Two copies of the two-page Supplementary Information sheet (pages 4a & 4b for domestic applicants and Pages 3a & 3b for international applicants).
   
   
3. Two official transcripts (in sealed envelopes) from each college attended. Request that they be sent directly to you. (While the outside of the envelope may be stamped ‘Issued to Student’ when you receive it, the envelope will be sealed, and that is considered an official transcript.) Include both sealed envelopes in this envelope. If you took one or more courses at a college – as a high school student – that were not credited as college transfer units, please leave that information off your application and do not request transcripts from that college. If you took one or more courses at a college as a high school student that were credited as college transfer units, please add that college to the list of colleges on your application, and be sure to include a short letter explaining these units. Be sure to request two official transcripts from that college in the same way that you are requesting two transcripts from the other colleges.
   
   
4. One copy of your writing sample (approximately 8-15 pages). Generally speaking, the writing sample should be an essay written for an English class in one of your primary areas of interest. It should reflect your critical skills and writing ability. Please submit a clean, single-sided copy (without comments or grades by teachers).
   
   
5. Your three letters of recommendation (as indicated in the instructions under “STEP FOUR”).
   
   
6. For international applicants only: TOEFL score must be taken within the past two years.

Mail all materials in one envelope to the following address:

University of California, Riverside
Department of English
Attention: Tina Feldmann
Riverside, CA 92521-0323

Please note that your file cannot be evaluated for admission to the M.A. or the Ph.D. program until all of the above materials are received. After completing the online application, the remaining materials should be sent together in one envelope, provided that all copies of your transcripts and your three letters of recommendation are in sealed envelopes with a signature or stamp across the back of the seal.

If you have any questions about the application process, contact me at tina.feldmann@ucr.edu (or phone (951) 827-1454).  Once you have submitted your application and supplementary materials, please feel free to check with me on the status of your file.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
Tina Feldmann

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