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+'''How does Titles Staff evaluate my Sophomore application?'''
+Titles Staff checks these three components for all Sophomore applicants: wiki, forums, and killboard, because they are easily evaluated without you (the applicant) having to do much.  However, lots of students participate in a variety of other activities that aren’t easily tracked by the game or the EVE University servers.  Incursions, AMC, and Solitude are examples of PvE activities that can be hard for Titles Staff to evaluate (although there is no reason why participating in those campuses wouldn’t lead to activity in the wiki, forums, and killboard).  In these cases we can rely on references.  If you feel that you are active in some way that we won’t be able to assess, then in the text of your application give us some names of individuals that can vouch for your activities.  These people could be Mentors, Campus Officers, or other students that hold the Graduate Title.  Titles Staff will contact them and ask them about your ‘active participation.’
+Contribution to the wiki shows participation, but it isn’t for everyone.  If you are actively participating in the EVE University forums, that goes a long way, too.  Titles Staff does not just count how many posts you have, we read most of them (that’s right)!  Saying hello, thanking people for teaching a class, putting in requests for LSC and NSC shipments are fine, but they aren’t considered ‘active participation.’  Getting involved in discussions in a real, meaningful way is what we look for.  That being said, trying to over think whether your forum activity ‘counts’ or not and second-guessing every post probably isn’t a good approach.  We also examine your EVE University killboard.  It is a way to measure your activity in the PvP aspect of the game.  We look at the frequency patterns in your kills and losses, we examine your losses for fits and for comments.  We expect to see an improvement over time (comments should demonstrate what you learned from a loss, and we should see your fits improve over time, too).
+We do not expect you to lead any of these activities for Sophomore (but if you do—awesome), and we don’t expect you to heavily participate in all ways.  Some people do a moderate amount of a variety of things, and that activity is ‘enough.’  We’ve also seen people with no wiki edits, or forum posts, but a solid active killboard that carries their application, or folks with no KB to speak of, but a very heavy forum presence that carries their applications.
+Ultimately, Titles Staff can only evaluate you on what we can see and verify.  Before you apply, put yourselves in our shoes and think about how we can evaluate your participation in EVE University activities.  If you participate in ways that you think we won’t be able to detect, let us know in that text box in your application.  If your activity is hard to verify, try and think of some way that we can do so.
+Finally, the requirement is ‘shows engagement,’ present tense.  If you were really active and awesome months ago, then took some time off of EVE, and are now jumping back in, your ‘participation’ is now historic: don’t apply for Sophomore yet.  Get back into your activity patterns and let them re-establish so that when you do apply and your application is evaluated, we see current activity.
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+'''How does Titles Staff evaluate my Graduate application?'''
+The Titles Staff does a deep review of your wiki contributions and your body of work as represented by your forum posts and killboard searching for the Graduate qualification aspects .  Just as with Sophomore, if there are activities in which you engage that would demonstrate the key aspects which we look for in Graduate applicants, but which are not reflected in those areas, then you need to tell us about them in your application, and provide references, if needed.
+The Graduate applicant should demonstrate that they have mastered a range of aspects of EVE gameplay and mechanics.  You aren’t expected to know everything about EVE, but you should be extremely knowledgeable about several areas of EVE gameplay.
+The Graduate applicant should show evidence of ‘giving back’ to EVE University.  We don’t mean monetarily, we mean using your time and energy to help other EVE University pilots.  Some examples are (but are not limited to): actively PvPing in a squad commander or fleet commander capacity; helping new players learn how to operate in fleets (PvP or PvE); contributing to analyzing AARs for PvP pilots; giving fitting advice; helping to answer questions; helping with logistics; taking on campus roles; being a good scout; being a part of staff; updating the wiki; teaching classes; organizing hangars; etc.
+There's a difference between just actively playing the game as an EVE University member and ‘giving back.’  The former you can do and qualify for Sophomore, but just coming along and participating, no matter how well you hit F1, doesn’t qualify you for Graduate.  You need to be a little more proactive.
+This aspect of the Graduate Title is about  sharing your knowledge and experience with newer players and assisting them to find their way in the game. This can be done in manifold ways as described above. However you do it, in the end it comes down to what you are showing us and what we can see. If we can not see what you have been doing, then we can not consider it while processing your application.
+This title also has a present tense requirement for the ‘giving back’ aspect.  See the text above for Sophomore about how Titles Staff evaluates present activity.
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