1. When your application is received, our senior secretary and student assistants process it and check for any missing elements.
2. Once the application is complete, you will be contacted by post card, telephone call, or email to set up a phone interview, where you get a chance to chat with a LEAD Scholar one-on-one. This is meant to be a mutual interview; please feel free to both answer our questions and ask a few of your own!
3. When the phone interview is complete, your application will be held until the next Selection Committee meeting for review. Your application will be reviewed and scored at that time.
   Most students will receive a letter informing them of the program's decision immediately after that meeting. A few, however, will receive a letter indicating that they are on "hold" status, and will be informed of the program's final decision in June.

As you can see, there are several complex steps to being selected as a LEAD Scholar, and several weeks sometimes pass between the completion of your application and your notification of the Selection Committee's decision.

If You Are Selected:

• Once selected, you will need to commit to the program and pay a one-time LEAD Student's Association membership fee of $125. This helps fund the many events that the LEAD Student's Association teams provide throughout your two years in the program.
• If you are selected early enough, you will be invited to attend a special LEAD Scholars Orientation session in June. Attendance is not required, but this will be your first chance to meet your fellow LEAD Scholars, and our students generally consider it beneficial.
• To receive the program's $200 per semester stipend, it is recommended that you submit a FAFSA form to the Financial Aid office.
• To be placed in LEAD Housing on campus, you must have a housing contract on file with UCF Housing and Residence Life and must also have indicated your interest in LEAD Housing on your LEAD Scholars application. Spaces are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
• Spaces are filled in a similar manner for the REEL Retreat; those who apply and are admitted earlier will have the best chance of attending one of the two 80-person REEL sessions. You will receive REEL information in a separate mailing after you are selected OR inside your selection envelope, depending upon the time of year in which you applied.