Apply Online - GPPA/Honors College

1. Read all information regarding the GPPA/Honors College application.

Check the deadlines for the term to which you are applying. (Please note that deadlines vary for GPPA programs.)

2. Please determine if you are a GPPA Applicant or Honors College Applicant.

3. Before proceeding, determine if you are a Domestic or International Applicant.
Please note that individual GPPA programs have specific residency requirements for application eligibility. We recommend that you view the admission requirements prior to applying.

Domestic - an applicant who fits into any of these categories:

• U.S. Citizen (born or naturalized)
• U.S. Permanent Resident (must submit a copy of your permanent resident card)
• Adjustment in Status (submitted application for permanent residency)
• Asylee (must submit documentation)
• Refugee (must submit documentation)
• Non-citizen - Status Identified
  You fit into this category if you can answer yes to all of the following:
  • Did/will you graduate from an Illinois high school or attain a GED in Illinois?
  • Did/will you attend school in Illinois for at least 3 years during K-12?
  • Did/will you live with your parents while you attended school in Illinois?
• Paroled in Public Interest
• Non-citizen - Other (other categories do not apply to you)

International - an applicant who is a citizen or permanent resident alien of a country or political area other than the United States and who has a residence outside the United States to which he or she expects to return and either is, or proposes to be, a temporary alien in the United States for educational purposes. Any applicant who holds a VISA or who is a citizen or resident of any country other than the United States falls under the International Applicant category.

If you are eligible you can apply for GPPA/Honors College.

4. Use the same login ID and PIN that you used for your freshman application.
Click the image on the right for a preview.

5. Select your admission term and fill in your first and last name.

6. Checklist
Next you will be brought to a Checklist page. Click on a section name to access that area of the web application. Fill out each section completely.

When you have completed a section, a red checkmark will appear by its name.

7. Name
Start by filling out your name. This should be your full legal name as it would appear on all your other documents; do not use nicknames or abbreviations.

Click the "Checklist" button to return to the Checklist menu. Click the "Continue" button to proceed to the next section, "Permanent Address Information."

If at any time you wish to quit and resume applying later, click "Finish Later."

8. Personal Information
Fill out the rest of your personal information. Be sure to verify your email address for accuracy, as it may be used to contact you throughout the application process. The same care should be applied when filling out your birth date, especially the year.

9. Parental Information

10. Planned Course of Study
Choose your program. If your desired program is not listed in the drop-down box, it is for one of the following reasons:

1. The application deadlines have passed.
2. If your desired program is not listed,
   DO NOT select another program for which you do not intend to seek enrollment. Program codes will not be changed after submission.

11. Test Scores
Please enter any Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate tests that you have taken.

12. Personal Statement
GPPA applicants who are required to be members of the Honors College, as well as Honors College Only applicants, must complete both personal statements.

For those GPPA applicants who are not required to be members of the Honors College (programs in the College of Applied Health Sciences except Nutrition, and all programs in the College of Engineering and College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs), completing the Honors College statement is optional yet highly encouraged; however, you must submit a response to the GPPA academic and professional goals statement.

Please address these topics directly and refrain from using the information you supplied for the personal statement in the freshman application.  Each response should be limited to 750 words.

13. Additional Information
Please answer all questions regarding extracurricular activities and special recognition you have received, and special skills you have acquired.

Note: By clicking "yes" on the final question, you certify that all information entered into this web application is correct and complete.

14. Back to the Checklist
When all sections have been completed, a checkmark will be displayed next to each section's name (as indicated to the right).

Press the "Application is Complete" button.

15. Submit any additional required credentials
Please be sure that you have sent your ACT/SAT test scores to the University of Illinois at Chicago.

In addition to the submission of this online application, please be aware that additional materials are needed in order to make your application to the GPPA programs and/or the Honors College complete:

Have three letters of recommendation sent to one of the following addresses using the downloadable Letters of Recommendation Form (pdf). Also, using the downloadable High School Transcript Request Form (pdf), please send an additional set of official high school transcripts to one of the following addresses.

For GPPA Applicants:
Special Programs Unit (MC 018)
Office of Admissions and Records
Box 6020
Chicago, IL 60680-6020

For Honors College Only Applicants:
UIC Honors College (MC 204)
103 Burnham Hall
828 S. Halsted St.
Chicago, IL 60607