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I received a perkins as well with no grant

Do you think you will attend? I am in a similar situation.

I know people have heard about the Leadership in Education awards, however, I am curious to know if anyone has received information about the Urban Scholars award?

Has anybody heard back about the urban leaders of educational leadership scholarships? I think many of us are becoming anxious!

Congrats everyone! I was accepted to IEP as well. I think we will receive scholarship info. in the next two weeks.....crossing my fingers!!!

Honestly, maybe you should consider giving yourself some time in between undergrad-graduate school. If you want to talk about this, I have some ideas/suggestions that may be useful to you.

So..in regards to the IEP info session, a couple of things stood out to me: 1) Your GRE scores are important, but not really. They placed emphasis on the writing score but said the GRE wouldn't rule anyone out of the process. 2) The committee placed a large emphasis on the SOP! Make it good, make it real, write from the heart. 3) Dream of things bigger than yourself. They don't want humble/mediocre people- they want those that have big goals and are determined to achieve them. 4) Letters of Rec- a person that can speak in more detail about you is more important than one that has an important title. Hope that helps. My own personal advice to current undergrads: Two and a half years ago, I was just coming out of my undergraduate career with what I perceived to be loads of international experience and work compared to my peers. I had amazing academic records and solid recommendations. I did get into graduate school out of undergrad, but with little funding. I decided, instead, to teach for two years (onto my third now) and it drastically altered my perspective on the future. I highly recommend you take a couple years to work and reflect on what is important in your career. I would have made a huge mistake going into graduate school straight from undergrad. I know, right now, it seems stressful and tempting to want to jump directly to graduate school but, I highly recommend that you don't. Again, it is your own personal decision, but I think you will find out a lot more about yourself if you take at least two years to do something different.

Thanks for all of the advice....I will be attending the IEP info session tonight and post details after.

Thanks for your feedback!! I do have low score on the quant an verbal section of the GRE, I am not a great test taker and sort of bombed that section when I took it a couple years ago. What do you all suggest as far as recommendations? In addition, would anybody be willing to swap SOPs???

Hi everyone! I'm applying to the International Education Policy at HGSE! I wanted to know if anyone with experience in applying to HGSE or current IEP students could give me some advice about my application. I am a Teach For America alumni and have three years teaching experience at a Title I International Baccalaureate School in New York City. In addition, I hold a leadership position at this school with several accomplishments. I hold a Bachelors degree with a 3.9 GPA from a renowned state university (graduated with Honors). I also hold a Masters degree in teaching (required for certification). My experiences include working in three different countries for two very well-known non-profit education organization as well as being a teaching assistant at an international university. I have held several fellowships here in the United States and started education programs for three non-profits. I have a 4.5 on the writing portion of the GRE but low in verbal and quant. Please let me know if you have any suggestions or feel that I am not qualified for this program. Any advice helps!