The April 15 Resolution (“National Signing Day”) by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) is an agreement among the signatory graduate schools, including UNC Charlotte, to provide applicants until April 15 to consider offers of admission that also include financial support.
Highlights of the resolution include:
- Applies to both master’s and doctoral programs that offer financial support to their students as part of the offer of admission
- Students are under no obligation to respond to offers of financial support (graduate scholarship, fellowship, traineeship, or assistantship) prior to April 15
- Earlier deadlines for acceptance of such offers violate the intent of this resolution
- Applies only to offers made for fall semester admission
- More than 325 universities in the United States are signatories
A copy of the April 15 Resolution is available for download from the Council of Graduate Schools.
