Admission Process

Four Stage Admission Process

1.  Application for Summer 2026 Cohort:

• 2025 Fall Application deadline: November 24, 2025
  • Know your acceptance status before Christmas
  • Priority consideration for placements (communicated to candidates in the new year)
• Spring Application deadline: January 12, 2026
• Rolling Application period while positions remain available throughout Spring 2026
  • ROLLING APPLICATIONS ARE TYPICALLY OPEN THROUGHOUT SPRING: After the Spring Application deadline, rolling applications and admissions are considered based on remaining available positions. Contact pace@up.edu to inquire. 

2.  Interview

• Fall Application 1 interviews will begin in late November 2025
• Spring Application interviews will begin in late January 2025 and continue until all available positions are filled.
• Rolling application period: Interviews will be scheduled after completed applications are submitted.
• Interviews are normally conducted via Zoom. 

3.  Acceptance & Placement

• Fall Priority Applicants will be notified of their acceptance no later than December 22, 2025.
• Spring Applicants will be notified of their acceptance no later than March 14, 2024.
• Rolling Applications: Based on available sites and teaching positions; ongoing throughout the Spring semester
• Every effort is made so that, at the time of acceptance, PACE applicants are notified of their community placement, school, grade level(s), and subject(s).
• Applicants must now choose to accept and confirm their invitation to join PACE.

4. Placement Interviews

• PACE involves each candidate and each school directly in the placement process, which gives the candidate and school administration agency and allows each the opportunity to say yes.
• Because all PACE teachers will be formally hired by their placement schools, the principal of each placement school is involved in the final selection of a PACE candidate.
• PACE candidates will interview with the principal and/or school officials of the placement school after acceptance into PACE. 
• These interviews are required and will be arranged as soon as possible after a candidate has indicated their acceptance to join the program.
• After a successful placement interview, the PACE applicant is fully accepted into PACE.

PACE Summer

The PACE summers are fulfilling and lots of fun! They are academic, faithful, joyful, and filled with community building across all PACE participants. If you are applying to PACE, please plan to be on The University of Portland campus with us during the following summer dates to ensure that you get the full experience and fulfill your obligations to PACE and earning your master's degree! 

• PACE Move-in: June 14, 2026
• PACE Orientation begins: June 15, 2026
• PACE Graduation/Commencement Ceremony: Friday, June 19, 2026
• PACE Master's courses begin: Monday, June 22, 2026
• PACE Summer session ends: Thursday, July 30, 2026