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Your Progress Once You are Accepted into the Program
Graduate Student Handbook
Timeline of Procedural Steps Toward Earning a Master of Arts Degree in Chicana and Chicano Studies
Student Standing: Unclassified, Conditional, Classified, or Advanced to Candidacy?
It is extremely important that you know your current standing, and the steps to take to advance your standing in the Graduate Division. The CCS Graduate Advisor can help you with this. Your standing has ramifications for financial assistance as well as attainment of the degree.
Upon admission to the program, you should have classified or conditional standing.
- If you are unclassified, you need to initiate paperwork in the Graduate Division IMMEDIATELY.
- If you are conditionally classified, you need to initiate paperwork in the department office. You must present documentation that you have met the conditions of your admission. This documentation (of which you should make copies) will accompany your paperwork. You should make every attempt to meet the conditions of your admission as soon as possible, regardless of any timelines included with your admission letter. (These are maximum timelines, which may work for part-time students, but delay by full-time students may interfere with completing requirements for the degree on time.)
- If you are classified, you need to file your official Program of Study by your third semester.
- The student is automatically Advanced to Candidacy upon Graduate Division approval of the official Program of Study.
