After submitting your application, you will have access to an Education History card at the top of your Applicant Center. You will be able to enter your attended university(ies) and upload your transcripts in that card.

Despite this function being available upon application submission, Teach For America does not require a transcript be submitted until and unless an applicant is invited to interview. However, uploading a transcript early does allow our team to ensure your eligibility should we wish to invite you to interview.

If you are invited to attend an interview, you will submit your Classroom & Regional Preferences, where you can list any personal circumstances you would like us to consider when determining your assignment, such as a spouse or significant other. We encourage you and your partner to submit identical Classroom & Regional Preferences and indicate your desire to be placed together. We will do our best to place you in the same region, but cannot guarantee that you will work in the same district or school.

Though rare, deferrals are typically granted for admitted applicants who have serious emergencies or who have a unique opportunity that will significantly add to their value in the classroom or to ending educational inequity.

Regions are filled on a first-come, first-served basis based on regional selections at each application deadline. Given this, some regions may be closed to new corps members by the time someone applies at a later deadline. Applying earlier may be advantageous if you have a particular region you would like to teach in.

Your regional and placement community selection(s) have no bearing on your admissions decision.

Teach For America uses the following key factors in determining placement:

You will get to tell us where you would like to teach as a part of your initial application. After you've completed your interview, you will have the opportunity to revisit your original regional selections.

You will have the opportunity to research and submit your regional selections in your initial application, and you will have an opportunity to revisit these selections after you've completed your interview.

At this time, you will also indicate your preferences for what you want to teach.

Depending on your application timeline, you'll receive your regional and subject assignment about two weeks after finalizing your regional selections.

Then, you'll have about 2 weeks to consider and accept your offer.

Given the volume of applications Teach For America receives, we are unable to provide individual feedback about admissions decisions to applicants who are not accepted at any stage of the application process.

If admitted to the corps, you are expected to submit to any and all background checks required by school districts, charter schools, other employers, Teach For America, and other relevant agencies.

Teach For America reserves the right to deny admission to or dismiss any corps member who has been involved in a criminal proceeding other than minor traffic violations, regardless of the outcome.