The 2025 ASSIP application deadline has been extended to 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. Submit your application early to avoid possible last-minute technical problems.To best submit your application, we recommend that you-1. Download a copy of the application and questions; complete essay questions and longer questions offline as a document. Then, when you've finished, enter your completed essays and longer answers into the application. You cannot edit your application once you have submitted it. If you would like to amend your submitted application, you will need to submit another; if there are more than one applications for a given applicant, only the most recent will be used.2. Review the list of prospective 2025 ASSIP Mentors BEFORE you begin your application. You must list at least one mentor and may list up to 3 mentors. Make sure that your interests in those mentors are supported by statements elsewhere in your application. Understand that some mentors get many applications, while newer mentors tend to have fewer applications.3. Consent to share your application with 2025 ASSIP mentors. If you are not yet 18 years old when you submit your application, your parent/guardian must consent to share this information with 2025 ASSIP mentors.4. Consider consenting to share your anonymized application with ASSIP which is helpful for our program improvement, research, and publication. All ASSIP application data is de-identified and anonymized prior to data analysis so that no individual applicant's responses can be tracked to a particular student. Applicants' consent and minor applicants' parent/guardian's consent for such uses are deeply appreciated. Whether you and your parent/guardian consent has no impact on an applicant's acceptance into ASSIP. You may withdraw your consent at any time should you decide to do so.5. Be ready to pay the $25 fee or submit the fee waiver immediately after you click the submit button. Have your credit card or ASSIP fee waiver code handy before you submit your application. If you are eligible for free/reduced lunches or Pell Grant Aid, email cosassip@gmu.edu and request a fee waiver in advance of submitting your application. All requests are confidential.
6. Clicking on the SUBMIT button will take you to the secure Marketplace portal where you will pay the application fee. Your order receipt will be sent to the email you enter on Marketplace and is the only confirmation of submitting your application. You will not receive a separate submission confirmation from ASSIP. 7. If you have additional items (honors, awards) that you wish to include after you have already applied, you must complete another entire application and pay again for that re-submission. Again, resubmission is easy if you have saved your answers as a document. Questions? First, check the ASSIP FAQ: Frequently asked questions on our home page or email us at coassip@gmu.eduWe look forward to reading your application!Mentors will select applicants to interview between late February and the end of March. It is unlikely that all applicants will be interviewed. Acceptance letters will be sent to applicants after each mentor's interviews are completed. We will send notifications to all applicants about their status by early April.
