{"id":20712,"date":"2020-04-22T09:57:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T09:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/free-online-gre-prep-program-for-ahs-students\/"},"modified":"2020-04-22T09:57:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T09:57:17","slug":"free-online-gre-prep-program-for-ahs-students","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/free-online-gre-prep-program-for-ahs-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Free online GRE prep program for AHS students"},"template":"","news_categories":[11],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-20712","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-student-news"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","intro_text_body":"<p>All AHS students are invited to apply to participate in a free online GRE prep program taking place every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. beginning on May 23 to July 25.<\/p>\n<p>Program includes online instruction from\u00a0 a certified GRE instructor. Student participants must purchase their own materials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To apply, complete the following application by May 11, 2020: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/go.uic.edu\/AHSUHPGREPrepProgram\"><strong>https:\/\/go.uic.edu\/AHSUHPGREPrepProgram<\/strong><\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The mission of the <a href=\"https:\/\/uhp.uic.edu\/\">UIC Urban Health Program<\/a> is to recruit, retain and graduate underrepresented racial\/ethnic minority students, specifically African Americans, Latinx and Native Americans, in the health professions, and to expand educational opportunities for these populations at the pre-college (K-12), undergraduate, graduate and professional levels. \u00a0Additional details will be sent upon completion of registration.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this program is being offered at no cost for the summer 2020 to support our AHS students interested in applying to graduate or professional schools.\u00a0<\/em> <strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UIC College of Applied Health Sciences has partnered with Get Better Scores to offer AHS students a GRE Program package that includes a computerized pre- and post-test, four hours of class time for 8 to 10 weeks, workbooks, weekly vocabulary quizzes and weekly detailed study plans. Blackboard will be used as software platform to evaluate the exam essays. Students will receive individualized support and online resources.<\/p>\n<p>Questions? Contact Ken Morgan at <a href=\"mailto:kmorgan@uic.edu\">kmorgan@uic.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"Free online instruction from a certified GRE instructor. Register by May 11, 2020","content_author":"Ken Morgan","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"intro_text_image":false,"intro_text_image_alt_text":"","intro_text_image_caption":"","intro_text_image_attribution":"","news_include_thumbnail":false,"news_thumbnail_image":false,"news_thumbnail_image_alt_text":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=20712"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=20712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}