College Horizons: Preparing Native American Students for College and Graduate School

Welcome to the Graduate Horizons Program! We invite you to explore our website, review our materials, and learn about our pre-graduate and professional school workshop for American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and First Nation aboriginals of Canada. Scroll below for information on the program dates, deadlines, application, cost of attendance, financial aid, cancelation policy, eligibility and mailing instructions. We hope you can join us for an intensive, productive, inspirational, and motivating program!

Graduate Horizons is a 72 hour "crash course" for Native American college students, master's students, and college graduates in preparing for graduate school (master's, Ph.D. or professional school). Faculty, admissions officers and deans from a selection 40 graduate and professional schools and representing hundreds of graduate disciplines work will help students:

Select suitable graduate programs to apply to and consider potential career paths
Complete quality applications and resumes
Write effective statements of purpose and memorable personal statements
Receive test-taking strategies on the GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT
Learn how to finance your graduate education
Explore special issues and strategies for Native students' success in graduate school
Develop relationships and network with faculty and student professionals

Whether you are a freshman/sophomore in college and undecided about what graduate programs or career to consider, or whether you are a college graduate who has been "out of school" working for 3-10 years - the Graduate Horizons curriculum can meet your individual needs.

The workshop is 4 days long (Sat-Tue) and consists of 75-90 students. Students are required to participate for the entire program. late arrivals or early departures are not allowed.

Eligibility: To be eligible, each student must,

Be American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or First Nations/Aboriginal/Metis AND provide appropriate tribal/ancestry documentation (copies of relevant tribal enrollment forms or descent documentation issued from a state or federally recognize tribe, or verified Hawaiian ancestry documentation such as required by the Kamehameha Schools, or from the Ho'oulu Hawaiian Data Center, or birth certificate showing Hawaiian descent);
Be a current college student or master's student or college graduate;
For those students applying for financial aid scholarship (tuition or travel assistance), a copy of your tax return and income information is required;
Submit a completed application packet by the established deadlines.

Mail Applications: Mail all parts of the application in one envelope to,
Christine Suina
College Horizons
Program Coordinator
PO Box 1262
Pena Blanca, NM 87041

Questions: If you have questions, please contact our staff,

Christine Suina, Program Coordinator
Phone: 505-401-3854
E-mail: info@collegehorizons.org

Carmen Lopez, Executive Director