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), Wednesday, December 4, 2019.

1. Statement of Program Interest, no more than two pages, double-spaced (approximately 600 words) – Please address the following:
   1. Explain your interest in pursuing a Ph.D in economics or sociology. Describe your prior research experience or relevant coursework.
   2. What draws you to the topics of poverty and inequality?  What  ideas do you have about research in these areas?
   3. How will the UCD-SPREE program benefit your academic
      undergraduate and graduate school plans?
   4. 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)