Application Instructions & Required Documentation
In addition to completing the online form below, please include all of the following documents when submitting your application to the UCD-SPREE program no later than 5pm (PST), Tuesday, November 1, 2016.

1. Statement of Program Interest, no more than two pages, double-spaced (approximately 600 words) – Please address the following:
          a. What draws you to the topics of poverty and inequality?  What  
               ideas do you have about research in these areas?
          b. Discuss how your interest in the UCD-SPREE Program may assist
               in leading to a career in academia, policy, non-profit or another
               career choice.
          c. How will the UCD-SPREE program benefit your academic
              undergraduate and graduate school plans?
          d. Please share why you would be an ideal candidate for this 
               program.
2. College-level writing sample.  Please submit a college paper that is no more than five pages in length, double-spaced on a topic related to either one’s major, minor or graduate study interests.
3. Copy of college/university transcripts; unofficial is fine
4. One letter of recommendation from a faculty member at home institution (to be sent directly from recommender to povertycenter@ucdavis.edu)