CGS’ Policies On Admissions & Financial Support
Indiana University and Purdue University participate in the Council of Graduate Schools’ (CGS) “Resolution Regarding Graduate Scholars, Fellows, Trainees and Assistantships” also known as the April 15 Resolution. The deadline for acceptance of financial aid remains on that date, at midnight April 15, 2021. We, at IUPUI, also follow the guidelines for the April 15 Resolution.
Participation in the resolution obliges us to allow admitted graduate students to consider all offers of financial support through April 15. Over 325 U.S. institutions offering graduate degrees have agreed to abide by this resolution. Cooperation with the agreement, ensures that both student and program conduct their admissions in an ethical manner, and that they receive equal treatment and consideration in the financial support decision-making process.
Here are some important aspects of the Resolution:
- The April 15, 2021, deadline applies only to acceptance of an offer of financial support such as a graduate scholarship, fellowship, traineeship, or assistantship.
- It applies only to offers of financial support for the following academic year.
- Although you can send out your offers well before the deadline, prospective graduate students are under no obligation to respond to offers of financial aid prior to April 15.
Starting Fall 2020, acceptance of an offer of financial support made after April 15, 2021, is conditional upon resignation by the applicant of any previously accepted offer. A formal release by the program is no longer required.
- All offers of financial support should include a copy of or link to the April 15 Resolution
In addition to direct information on the resolution, some explanatory language should be included in all financial support letters. Below is an example of wording that you are free to use in your letter.
Please inform us in writing of your decision no later than April 15, 2021. In accordance with the Council of Graduate Schools’ (CGS) resolution, we will honor this offer until the April 15 deadline, after which point it will be rescinded unless you are informed in writing that the deadline for a decision has been extended. Although you are under no obligation to accept this offer prior to April 15, please let us know as soon as you have made a decision so that we may extend offers to other prospective students if possible. You may consider other offers of financial support; if you choose to accept another offer of financial support, you must first resign from your acceptance of our offer, either before or after April 15.
Questions? Email Monica Henry mlhenry@iupui.edu