State requirements for the General Administrative Endorsement include two years of full-time teaching experience or school service personnel experience. The committee reviews such requests at its regular meeting. Decisions to grant the waiver are based on the student profile as represented in the other admissions materials including undergraduate GPA, master s GPA, and letters of recommendation. However, in pursuing certification, you should be aware of potential pitfalls in taking classes prior to admission. First, the department reserves the right to purge class lists and remove SAL students when there are admitted students who need the course.
Admitted students receive priority in terms of course enrollment.
Second, the specific course requirements for the endorsement change periodically, and it can take up to a year before those changes are reflected in the graduate catalog. The courses you will be required to take depend upon the date of your admission to the degree program or the certification track. If you rely upon the courses listed in the catalog and take courses on your own, you may have to take additional coursework after your admission. Instead, doctoral level courses are substituted for approximately half of the courses. If you take courses on your own, you may take courses that will not be counted as part of the doctoral program.