Additional Information
For Academic Year and Semester applicants who are currently enrolled in Chinese language courses at Yale, please staple the Light Fellowship Language Evaluation to the IUP language instructor form and mail it in by the appropriate deadline. No additional steps need to be completed by the Yale Chinese instructor. For summer applicants, no language evaluation form is needed. Language interviews are conducted for all applicants.
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Additional Information (from Karen Cheong at IUP):
"Light applicants may contact IUP Berkeley to set up their 15-minute language interviews at no cost (no non-refundable deposit, no application fee required) beginning November 30th and ending on December 15th. If they pass their courtesy language interviews and want to send in paper applications, we should receive them at IUP Berkeley by the end of December 2011/early January 2012 for the summer 2012 program and by January 11th for the academic year/semester deadline. Please note that passing the language interview does not mean automatic acceptance to IUP; the paper application is equally important. It is important that applicants write thoughtful Statements of Purpose. IUP is a mature language program (the average age is often 26), so it's expected that students express fairly clear career plans/steps in their statements. The more specific career plans they can express, the better. It is also important to express how IUP will help them achieve those career goals and what they plan to do with their language skills post-IUP.
If a Light applicant contacts IUP Berkeley after December 15th, they will have to take the ordinary route like all other ordinary IUP applicants. This means the application must be received by the January 11, 2012 academic year/semester deadline (or by the end of December 2011 for best chances at a summer 2012 spot), they need to pay application fees, and if their academic year/semester application is approved by our admissions committee (results come out in very late February/very early March), they must pay a deposit and sign up for a language interview in March 2012. Summer language interviews will mostly likely be in late December 2011/early January 2012. By taking the academic year/semester language interview in December 2011, they find out about full acceptance status by very late February/very early March at the latest."
Additionally, IUP no longer requires a Chinese language teacher reference and does not require the Light Fellowship language evaluation, mainly because they conduct their own 15-minute language interviews in Mandarin. Applicants only need to send in two non-Chinese language references in their major and school transcripts with IUP applications.
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