Some remarks on the application first:

There are two ways to apply to MacREU. You can apply yourself or you can be nominated by a Southern California faculty of a Community College or a 4-yr college.

If you apply yourself, your application will include up to three letters of recommendation (one or two may be sufficient). The more the recommender knows about you, the more helpful their letter will be for us in evaluating your application.

We may contact a faculty member or an administrator from your college about you; we will share with that person the information you provided about yourself.  If you are applying from a Southern California college, we likely have a contact at your college already. If not, we may contact the authors of your letters of recommendation.

We will need to know your grades. The application will ask for a pdf or jpg file. You can scan your transcript and upload that scan. You can get your transcript from your college's website and print it into a pdf file and then upload it to us. You can take a screenshot showing your transcript. You can take a photo showing your transcript. An unofficial transcript is fine. Just make sure that all is in one file only. Also note that grades are only one factor in determining your admission. There is no grade cut-off.

We will ask for demographic information in the application. They will not determine your admission. But they will help us document to NSF who applied (in a summary manner) and, thus, help us maintain NSF support for this project. Please provide them!

We strive to interview as many applicants as possible. We will contact you about the interview a few days or weeks after the application deadline closes.  Interviews take 10 minutes, are conducted on Zoom, and give you an opportunity to present your motivation and drive to participate in MacREU. It will also serve to align your career goals and the research group we place you in at UCR. 

Please also have a look at the list of faculty hosts at UCR. At the time of the interview, please give us an idea whom you think may suit you best. This list is NOT complete. Each year, new faculty join the group of hosts and established faculty may skip a year to take a student. The main objective of the interview process is for us to learn with whom we should place you based on your career aspirations.  

The Application:

So how do you get to the application?

The application is a Google form. The form and your answer are stored on the UC Riverside Google platform, and not on a personal account. It is as secure as most other web applications of UCR. It requires that you sign in with a Google email address; any Google email address works. The email addresses of most colleges are hosted by Google. So try your school email address, or any other email you prefer. You can find the application link in the menu at the top.

YOU CAN FIND THE LINK TO THE APPLICATION IN THE MENU AT THE TOP.

The Nomination:

Faulty from Southern California Community and 4-yr Colleges can nominate each year one student for participation in MacREU. If you are a faculty member and have a student in mind, talk to them. If they agree to be nominated, send an email from YOUR account to bartels@ucr.edu introducing the student to us. CC the student on that email. Please use the subject line: MacREU NOMINATION. If at all possible, nominated students will be interviewed. There is no strict deadline for nominations, but we fill places in March and April.