Admission to the graduate school normally requires the following
items:
• The following courses, totaling 9 semester hours
of psychology, are program prerequisites for the MA/CP:
- General Psychology (3 hours)
- Statistics (3 hours)
- Clinical psychology elective (Therapeutic, Personality,
or Abnormal) or developmental elective (3 hours)
• The completed Application Form which includes two
personal statements as follows:
- A statement of the applicant's past and present spiritual
life. This may include one's Christian conversion and other
significant spiritual events and formative influences in
one's life (one or two pages).
- A statement outlining the applicant's motivation to study
at Trinity Graduate School, an evangelical Christian school,
and one's future goals (one or two pages).
• An official transcript indicating graduation with
a baccalaureate degree or its equivalent from an accredited
college or university, typically including at least 60 semester
hours of liberal arts course work with a cumulative undergraduate
grade point average of 3.0 or higher (on a 4.0 scale).
• In addition, official transcripts must be submitted
from schools attended since high school where more than three
courses were taken and from all schools where prerequisite
courses were completed. Applicants who attended secondary
school (high school) outside the United States should submit
those transcripts as well. Certified translations for non-English
transcripts are required.
• Submission of scores from the Graduate Record Examination
(GRE) verbal and analytical sections or the Miller Analogies
Test (MAT). Test scores must be less than five years old.
• Letters of recommendation from (a) a pastor who knows
the applicant, (b) a faculty member in a school where the
applicant recently pursued academic studies (undergraduate
or graduate), (c) an employer or other relevant individual.
• Proof of English competency for students for whom
English is not the first language. Competency is normally
measured by the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).
The minimum score required is 237 (computer test) or 580 (paper
test), and scores submitted must be less than two years old.
Waivers are not normally granted from this requirement. However,
if a waiver is authorized, applicants then become subject
to the same standardized testing requirements as their native
English-speaking counterparts, required to submit qualifying
scores from either the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) or Miller
Analogies Test (MAT). Applicants should weigh this prospect
carefully before requesting a waiver from the TOEFL. Waiver
requests must be submitted in writing to the Director of Admissions
at least three months (90 days) prior to the application deadline
date in order to allow sufficient time for testing if the
request is denied. Failure to submit qualifying test scores
by application deadlines may result in outright denial of
admission or postponement of application decision to a subsequent
semester.
• Submission of a $25 nonrefundable application fee.
• In addition to the General Admissions requirements,
an interview with the MA/CP faculty may be required for admission.
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