Admission Assessment:

An Admissions Committee will review applications and recommend to the Program Director whether each applicant should be admitted or not and, if so, under what conditions.  The Admissions Committee will play a role that is strongly advisory to the Program Director.

A five-member Cohort Advisory Committee of Public Policy Faculty will be established for each year's entering students.  Students entering the Program in that year will be advised by this Committee whose members will assess each student's previous academic course work in light of the student's stated direction of study.  This assessment will be used to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the student's previous academic history and to suggest specific course work for the student's public policy program.  The amount and kinds of remedial course work required for the Program will depend on the student's background and will be established by the Advisory Committee and confirmed by the Interdisciplinary Public Policy Committee.  The Advisory Committee may also suggest specific course work based on the student's intended direction of study within the Program.  The Advisory Committee will conduct this assessment upon the student's acceptance and formal declaration of intent to attend.  For each entering student, a member of the Committee will be selected to serve as his or her major advisor for the first year in the Program.