How Do I Apply?
Students must apply to both the Peace Corps and Michigan Tech. Since Peace Corps requires US citizenship, you must be a US citizen to enter this program.
Students should maintain contact with Blair Orr, the Coordinator in the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, and their Peace Corps recruiter while they are applying to the program.
Apply to the Peace Corps
Students must apply and be accepted to the Peace Corps. Students should indicate their interest in the Master's International Program on the Peace Corps application.
Once the application is received, the student will be assigned a recruiter who will guide him/her through the Peace Corps application process. Further information is available by call 1-800-424-8580, option "1" after you connect, or by accessing the Peace Corps website.
Apply to Michigan Tech
Michigan Tech applications for the 2008-2009 program, to begin in August of 2008, are currently being accepted on a first-come first-served basis for qualified applicants. There is no application deadline; applications are considered on a rolling basis. Students apply through the standard application process to Michigan Technological University and must meet academic standards for entry into the Graduate School.
We also recommend, but do not require, financial aid applications be filed at the same time. Michigan Tech now works directly on financial aid and the FAFSA form should be sent using the MTU financial aid code, 002292.
Entrance requirements
The Michigan Tech program is designed for students with an undergraduate degree in any field. The core program is designed for students with no previous course work in forestry. We can design specific programs for students who have some academic background in forestry, natural resources, or environmental studies or who have a Bachelor of Science in Forestry or a related field.
- Applicants must complete a bachelors degree and a college-level chemistry course prior to entering the program in the Fall. If you have not completed a college-level chemistry course you will find they are offered by local colleges, universities, and community colleges. Be certain that you are enrolling in a college level course. Some colleges, universities, and community colleges offer pre-college level programs that will not meet the entry level requirements for the Peace Corps – Michigan Tech Master's International Program in Forestry.
- The School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science generally requires a 3.0 GPA and a composite GRE verbal and math score of 1000 and 4 on the analytical written test. Students who have taken the old GRE test should have accomposite score of 1500. For the MI program these standards are recommended but not required.. We will consider students who are strong in other areas, but have a lower GPA or GRE scores.
- You must think that living, working, and learning in a different culture will be exciting.
- You must have the flexibility to adapt to the unexpected. Peace Corps Volunteers learn to laugh about the delays and obstacles that are "part of the job."
- We recommend that applicants have completed a college-level statistics class. Students who have not completed a statistics class may be admitted, but they will be required to take a one-semester statistics class while at Michigan Tech. Students may also complete the statistics class through their local colleges, universities, and community colleges prior to arrival on campus or through distance education courses.
What To Send, and Where To Send It
Send:
- Application Form
- Original Transcripts of all college work
- GRE Scores. When you fill out the GRE application, the Institution Number for Michigan Technological University is 1464 and the Department Code is 0108.
to:
- Dean of the Graduate School
Michigan Technological University
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI 49931
Send:
- Your personal resume
- A 1-2 page description of your background and interest in the MI program (a letter of intent)
- Three letters of recommendation
to:
- Chairperson, Graduate Studies Committee
School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science
Michigan Technological University
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI 49931
A Word On Patience
"By the Uganda railroad, which was then being built, we traveled to its provisional terminus, Station Sigistifour (sixty-four). The boys unloaded our quantities of equipment. I sat down on a chop box, a crate containing provisions, each one a man's headload, and lit a pipe, meditating on the fact that here we had, as it were, reached the edge of the oikumene, the inhabited earth, from which trails stretched endlessly over the continent. After a while an elderly Englishman, obviously a squatter, joined me, sat down, and likewise took out a pipe. He asked where I was going. When I outlined our various destinations, he asked "Is this the first time you have been to Africa? I have been here forty years."
"Yes," I told him. "At least in this part of Africa."
"Then may I give you a piece of advice? You know, mister, this here country is not man's country, it's God's country. So if anything should happen, just sit down and don't worry."
– from Carl Jung's "Memorys, Dreams, Reflections," Kenya and Uganda section of the Travel Chapter. Jung traveled through Kenya and Uganda in 1925.
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