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The Rome Center welcomes applications from qualified students of Loyola University Chicago one year ahead of a term's start date.
Spring 2010
We are currently still accepting applications for Spring 2010. Remember that a photocopy of your valid passport must be submitted with your application form.
We are currently still accepting applications for Spring 2010. Remember that a photocopy of your valid passport must be submitted with your application form.
Fall 2010 or Full-Year 2010-2011
We will begin accepting applications for Fall 2010 or Full-Year 2010-2011 after Labor Day. Again a photocopy of your valid passport must be submitted with your application form.
We will begin accepting applications for Fall 2010 or Full-Year 2010-2011 after Labor Day. Again a photocopy of your valid passport must be submitted with your application form.
PRE-APPLICATION INFORMATION SESSIONS
Find out about the John Felice Rome Center by attending a Study Abroad 101 session at the Lake Shore Campus. These 101 workshops are designed to provide an overview of the program and a glimpse at the highlights of the JFRC.
Application Requirements
The following requirements must be met before an application will be reviewed:
- At least 15 semester hours (or 24 quarter hours) of credit earned
- Attainment of at least a 2.75 (on a 4.00 scale) cumulative grade point average
Application Instructions
- Application Checklist - Please be sure to complete all of the steps
- Program Application (PDF) - Please print off, fill out, and return to the Rome Center Office (Sullivan 206 if you are on the Lake Shore Canpus).
- Photocopy of the basic information page of your valid passport. "Valid" for the Italian consulate is a passport with an expiration date at least 90 days beyond the concluding date of the academic term in which you will be enrolled at the Rome Center. "Valid" for the Department of Homeland Security is a passport with an expiration date at least six months after the end date of your international travel. Be sure your current passport is "valid."
- A one-page typed essay - This should explain the reasons why you want to study abroad and what you hope to gain in terms of personal development from a year or semester at the John Felice Rome Center.
- Academic Advisor Recommendation (PDF) - Please print off the form and fill out Part II. Either bring or send the form to OIP to ask the JFRC staff to complete Part I. You can pick it up before your advising appointment and give it to your academic advisor during your appointment, or you can ask OIP to send it directly on to your advisor. He or she will complete the form and send it back to the Rome Center's Chicago Office.
- Judicial Life Recommendation (PDF) -Please print off, fill out the top portion and bring or send to the Office of Student Conduct. This office is located in CFSU, Room 100. The judicial officer will complete the form and send it directly to the Rome Center Chicago Office.
- Official Transcripts. Loyola students need not provide a Loyola University Chicago transcript as the Rome Center staff can view this on LOCUS. If students have attended any other colleges or universities, transcripts should be requested from those schools and sent to the Rome Center Chicago Office.
- All materials do not need to be sent at the same time, but a photocopy of the passport must be submitted with the application form and essay; recommendations and transcripts (if needed) may follow later. Keep in mind, however, that an application will not be reviewed until all required materials are received by the Rome Center Chicago Office. Please send materials to: Loyola University Chicago, The John Felice Rome Center, 6525 N. Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60626. Or students are welcome to submit applications personally in the Sullivan Center for Student Services, Lake Shore Campus, Room 206.
LOCUS Student Center "To Do List:
To alert you that we have received the required parts of your application in our office, there is a feature on LOCUS that will allow you to track our receipt of any documents needed for your Rome Center application or, after admission, for your preparations to study in Rome.Upon receiving your application to study at the Rome Center, we will set up a Rome application checklist on LOCUS for you. You will then find, in the "To Do List" on your LOCUS Student Center, a list of Rome documents. When you click onto "details," you can see which of your application documents have been "received" in our office and which we are still awaiting. An "initiated" status indicates that we do not yet have a particular document; a "received" status means that we do have it.
Once we have all your documents, your checklist is coded "completed," and it disappears from your "To Do List." At that point, we will review your file on the regular Friday schedule and issue you a decision about admission.
After you have been accepted, an "acceptance" checklist is created for you. Now your "To Do List" will itemize the dozen or so documents that you will receive in your Rome information packet, as well as the two items requested in your letter of acceptance: the signed "intent to enroll" form and the deposit. Information packets will only be prepared for students who submit both the deposit and the signed form; packets will be available from the HUB according to the timetable noted here. Once you have your information packet and have acquired all the documents noted on the checklist, you will be able to track our receipt of these documents as you complete them and turn them in to OIP.
With this feature, it will no longer be necessary for you to call, e-mail, or stop by the Rome Center office in OIP to ask if your application is complete or if all of your documents have been received; you will be able to know this from your LOCUS Student Center. This checklist will also remind you of the final date by which documents are due.
Once you've been accepted and you've turned in your "intent to enroll" form and your deposit, then you will also be given access to register for Rome classes prior to the opening date of registration for undergraduates. You will always register at your assigned access time.