Admission Process

Four Stage Admission Process

1.  Application for 2025 Cohort:

• ROLLING APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN THROUGHOUT SPRING: Positions are still available within PACE. After the application deadline, rolling applications and admissions are considered based on remaining available positions. Contact pace@up.edu to inquire. 
• 2025 Priority Application deadline: December 1, 2025
  • Know your status before Christmas
  • Priority consideration for placements (communicated to candidates in the new year)
• Regular Application deadline: DUE January 31, 2025

2.  Interview

• After applications have been reviewed, eligible applicants will be invited to a PACE Interview.
• Rolling application period: Interviews will be scheduled after completed applications are submitted.
• Priority Application 1 interviews will begin in early November 2025
• Priority Application 2 interviews will begin in early December 2025
• Regular Application interviews will begin in February 2025 and continue until all available positions are filled.
• Interviews are normally conducted via Zoom. 

3.  Acceptance & Placement

• Rolling Applications: Based on available sites and teaching positions; ongoing throughout the Spring semester
• 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.
• 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 each entity 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. Please plan to be on The University of Portland campus with us all summer to ensure that you get the full experience! 

• PACE Move-in: June 14/15, 2025
• PACE Graduation/Commencement Ceremony: Friday, June 20, 2025
• PACE Orientation begins: June 16, 2025
• PACE graduate courses begin: Monday, June 23, 2025
• PACE Summer session ends: Thursday, July 30, 2025