Early Identification Program (EIP)

Chilin, whose family came from El Salvador in 2000, when she was 9 years old, has temporary protected status (TPS), an immigration status provided by the U.S. government to nationals of countries destabilized by war or catastrophe.

This George Mason University junior is majoring in finance and accounting. She is a member of five student organizations (at least—that’s what she could recall off the top of her head) and works two part-time jobs, including one as a mentor in Mason’s Early Identification Program (EIP).

An infusion from a new grant means that as many as 60 additional students from Alexandria will get the opportunity to enroll in George Mason University’s Early Identification Program (EIP).

The true measure of what George Mason University’s Early Identification Program (EIP) will have meant to her family will reverberate long after senior Ingrid Roque-Oviedo’s graduation this week.

Joseph, a 3.98 GPA student from the Honors College who was named Mason’s Black Scholar of the Year, was a Truman Scholarship finalist and received Honorable Mention honors for the Goldwater Scholarship that is reserved for the nation’s top STEM students.