YOU ARE IN...NOW WHAT?
YOU ARE IN...NOW WHAT?
Congratulations on being offered admission to Gallaudet's Graduate School!
Have you received access to the Admitted Graduate Students Portal? Be sure to log in with your Gallaudet email address. This website contains important information about what you need to do before you begin your graduate program. Review the steps involved in morphing into a full-fledged Gallaudet Bison!
1) Have you paid your Admission fee of $100* to Graduate School?
When you receive the admit letter online, it comes with an enrollment form with the following options:
After you submit the form, you are taken to the Nelnet payment page immediately. This is where you can make the Admission Fee payment. If you choose to skip, you will need to go to Self Service Center when you are ready to make the payment.
*Deferred - you can only defer your admission to the following year. After that, you'll have to apply for the program again.
*The admission fee is non-refundable*
2) Have you set up your Gallaudet email address?
Set up your Gallaudet email address here: http://newuser.gallaudet.edu. More details on how to set up your Gallaudet email address is in your admit letter. You will need your student ID number listed in this letter too.
Use your Gallaudet email address all the time when corresponding with people on campus. If you try to use your personal email to contact units on campus, your personal email may be quarantined as spam and you might wonder why people aren't responding to your email. Your Gallaudet email address also verifies your identity so we know you are actually the person we are talking to (personal emails can come from, well, anyone!). Your Gallaudet email account will give you access to Gallaudet email system, Bison, and Blackboard.
It is very important that you check your Gallaudet email address on a regular basis.
Issues? E-mail ITservicedesk@gallaudet.edu including your name, your date of birth and the last four numbers of your Gallaudet ID.
PRO-TIP: Have you completed your 2-Step Verification for your Gallaudet email account? You can do this here!
3) Complete the "Incoming Student Survey" <-- click here for the survey!
(If you don't do this, you can't start classes ---> this is important)
Issues? Please contact Graduate Admissions (graduate.school@gallaudet.edu)
4) Graduating with a BA degree the same month you're entering the MASLED program?!: If you have not yet graduated with your Bachelor's degree but you will in May, that means Gallaudet still needs your most recent official transcript indicating conferral of a BA degree. Please remember you must have your final, official transcript indicating your bachelor's degree was conferred, sent to Graduate Admissions before you can start classes in May!
PRO-TIP: Graduating from Gallaudet with your BA? Order your transcripts NOW and add a special note saying to hold the transcript order until your degree has been conferred/posted. Registrar's office will mail your transcript to Graduate Admissions when your degree has been conferred/posted. Just in case, check with the Registrar's office to be sure your transcript has been mailed.
5) Financial Aid - For US citizens and permanent residents only.
Visit the Financial Aid website for details including contact information. If you have VR support, hope to receive assistance/scholarships or need student loans, you must complete the following prior to the first day of class (the earlier you do it, the possibility for more funds available).
Here are the links to FAFSA and IFAA Applications. For more details, please visit Financial Aid page on this website.
6) Join the Masters in Sign Language Education Facebook groups!
Please click the buttons below and request to "Join Group".
7) Early April: Start ordering books and equipment for your classes: The required book/equipment is posted in the private Facebook cohort group. You want to order your books and equipment as soon as you can. You can
8) April-May: Brush up on your technology skills and check out past alumni's tips!
PRO-TIP: Review the technology requirements, recommendations and software frequently used at this link and tutorial videos here. You do not want to have to learn the "technology" on top of learning the content required in our courses. Check out MASLED alumni sharing their wisdom and tips with you all here.
9) First week of May: Complete online Business Registration. This makes sure you promise to pay off most of your remaining debt (tuition, fees, dorm & meals) before the start of the next semester. You can have a balance remaining up to $1,000 and still register for courses the Fall semester. Click here to complete your Online Business Registration.
Click here to read the instructions on how to complete the Online Business Registration.
10) Monday May 11th: Attend the online MASLED Graduate Student Orientation (GSO)! We will meet at noon Eastern time for a 2-hour orientation and meet each other live! The Zoom link will be shared with the 2020 Facebook group.
If you can't make it, the orientation will be recorded and shared with you via the 2020 Facebook group.
11) Wednesday May 13th: Attend the online MASLED 2019 & 2020 Social! We will meet at noon Eastern time for a 2-hour social and meet each other live! The Zoom link will be shared with the 2020 Facebook group.
If you can't make it, the social will be recorded and shared with you via the 2020 Facebook group.
12) Monday May 18th: Check out your Summer classes on Blackboard! As new students, you will be automatically registered for FIVE courses: ASL 709, 724, 741, 743 and 750!
This experience will be intensive - according to past students, it may take you easily 4 to 8 hours per day to work on the course assignments.
Please do not consider doing full-time work during the MASLED Summer 2020 dates of May 18 - July 17.
Check Blackboard (blackboard.gallaudet.edu) and check out your courses!
13) Due to safety precautions, MASLED Transitions to a Fully Online Summer for the First Time Ever!
Here's the Revised schedule:
Four Weeks: May 17 - June 12 - online asynchronous (similar to the last 9 years!)
June 15 - 19 - your vacation!
Four Weeks: June 22 - July 18 - online asynchronous, however, please hold Mondays through Fridays from 12 noon to 2 pm Eastern time for potential synchronous gatherings with your professor.
Mondays - ASL 709
Tuesdays - ASL 724
Wednesdays - ASL 741
Thursdays - ASL 795 (Primary Language)
Fridays - ASL 795 (World Language)
14) MASLED 2019 Cohort Celebration!:
Every year, on the last evening of the summer semester (Friday, July 18th), we have a program celebration, celebrating the milestone of completing all MASLED requirements for the second year students. First year students are always invited to cheer the second year students on! We are still figuring out the details how to host this event online. Hold the date!