Each year that the international education policy program is comprised of incredible education professionals from all over the world. As such, it's difficult to typify the ideal applicant to international education policy. However, successful applicants have shared a few qualities that I can share with you now firstly applicants tend to have some successful applicants tend to have some professional work experience.
We think that having developed your professional identity a little bit before coming to the international education policy program helps you make the most out of the incredible array of choices. You'll have within the curriculum and the wider learning community here at Harvard. However, we do welcome an exceptional number of students in exceptional small number of exceptional students directly from undergraduate each year, so if you don't have any professional work experience.
I don't want to discourage you from applying Secondly successful applicants have demonstrated a sustained commitment to education over the course of your time as a student or professional that you have remained in activities that signal that this is something that you are committed to in the long term and that you are invested in getting the most out of your experience here at iep.
And Thirdly I would say either through their course of study in transcript or through the resume. Successful applicants tend to demonstrate some potential for leadership or to engage problems of education at the systems level at scale, so these 3 qualities. Some professional work experience sustained commitment to education and.