786 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dear INSERT STUDENT NAME I am writing to give you directions for completing your application to the Obama Singh STEM initiative. Some steps in this email are very technical. You must start now and complete this job in the next few days. Follow the directions carefully and complete them now. HOW TO COMPLETE YOUR ONLINE APPLICATION TO THE OSU GRADUATE SCHOOL Follow the directions below. You must complete your online application to Ohio State University in the next few days. There is no new information for you to gather ? so this should be an easy thing to do. As a part of the application, you will come to a question that asks for your SUBPLAN. Enter ? STEM ? for your subplan. Here are the directions for applying to the OSU Graduate School: 1. Complete this process in the next few days. 2. Click on this link: https://www.applyweb.com/apply/osugrad/index.html 3. Click on ?Create your account.? Create your user name and password. After you complete this process you will see a screen that reads ? Apply for your CollegeNet account. Close this screen. You have already created this account. 4. Click on this link again: https://www.applyweb.com/apply/osugrad/index.html 5. Near the bottom of the screen, click ?Graduate Application.? 6. On the next screen, click ?I Agree.? 7. Begin the 7 page application. This list will not answer every question, but it does answer many Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): 8. At the top of the page, it says how much the fee is to complete the application. You will not have to pay this. Finish the application. 9. For campus, select Columbus. 10. For degree type, select Education: Teaching and Learning ? M.Ed. 11. For term, select AU / 14 12. For ?Subplan?, use the phrase listed in this email above. 13. For ultimate degree objective, select Masters. 14. For US Social Security number, leave blank. 15. For immigration, select ?I do not have a US visa? ? if accepted you will get one later. If you have a visa now because you visited the US recently, that is not what this quesiton means. Click - I do not have a US Visa. 16. For address, complete only the block that reads ?Address outside the US.? 17. For financial support, select ?self.? 18. For GRE / GMAT score, leave blank. You do not need this score. 19. For TOEFL, DO NOT ENTER YOUR SCORE. We will do this for you. Leave this blank, or select that you have not taken the test yet. It is important that you let us enter your score. DO NOT ENTER A SCORE HERE. 20. To show where you earned your first degree(s), under university search, enter the city and country where you earned the degree. Then click enter. Sometimes your university will appear. If it does, click on it and the university will appear in the application and you can enter the dates you attended and the degree earned. Note that when entering dates, the US uses a Day/Month/Year format. If your university does not appear, type the name of the university into the blank part of the form. 21. For ?Are you a sponsored student? say YES. 22. For Funding Opportunities ? Graduate Teaching Assistant ? leave blank. 23. For University Housing, leave blank or say NO. 24. For Application Fee Waiver, check the box that reads ?OBAMA-SINGH 21c.? 25. The application asks whether you have ever been convicted of a ?felony?. A ?felony? means a serious crime ? not a traffic ticket. 26. At the end of page 7, if you have everything completed click ?Submit.? If you do not have everything completed, you can ?Save? your application and complete it on another day. 27. If you have questions, please send them to me. 28. You must complete this form in the next few days. It may take some time to complete so you should start working on it now. Thank-you for completing the application. Please let me know when it is completed. INSERT SIGNATURE HERE Adrian Rodgers, Ph.D. Associate Professor Executive Director, US/Indonesia Teacher Education Consortium (USINTEC) Dept. of Teaching & Learning, College of Education & Human Ecology The Ohio State University 2066 Founders Hall, 1179 University Drive Newark, Ohio 43055 Tel: 740-366-9261 Fax: 740-366-5047 Email: Rodgers.50@osu.edu