School counselors, GT coordinators, or other school officials can nominate students for Arkansas Governor's School.

If you did not create a nominator account last year, follow these directions to create an account:

• Click on the link to create a new nominator's account: Nominator Account Creation.
• Choose your High School from the list. If your high school is not listed, you will be asked to enter the name of the school and give some contact information during the next step.
• Complete the rest of the form and choose a password. Your password must contain at least 6 characters. Your email address and password will be used to log into your account.
• The first person that logs in for each school will be asked to enter the junior class size. This we be used to determine the number of eligible nominations since schools are allowed to nominate up to 10% of their junior class.
• Enter the number of students you would like to nominate. You can always come back and add additional names at a later date. Click on "Submit" once you have entered the number of students.
• Enter each student's first and last name and school email address. Click on "Submit" when you are finished entering the students.
• The students have now been nominated and will receive an email inviting them to apply. This email should arrive within minutes. If it does not show up in their inbox, have them check their spam folder. You may need to ask your IT department to add ags@atu.edu as an allowed address.

If you have already created a nominator account, follow these directions to nominate students:

• Click on the link: Login to AGS Application Portal. If you have forgotten your password, click on "Forgot Password?" to have a reset link sent to your email.
• Enter the number of students you would like to nominate. You can always come back and add addtional names at a later date. Click on "Submit" once you have entered the number of students.
• Enter each student's first and last name and school email address. Click on "Submit" when you are finished entering the students.
• The students have now been nominated and will receive an email inviting them to apply. This email should arrive within minutes. If it does not show up in their inbox, have them check their spam folder. You may need to ask your IT department to add ags@atu.edu as an allowed address.

Additional information:

• You can nominate additional students by logging back in and entering their information as described above. The system will only let you nominate up to 10% of your junior class.
• To monitor the progress of the student applications, go directly to the Nomination Summary page by clicking on "Review Existing Nominee(s)".
• On the Nomination Summary page, you can submit the School Recommendation Form and the student's transcript. Click on "Browse..." and choose the file on your computer and then click "Upload". "View Nomination" or "View Transcript" should show up next to the student name. You need to view your submission to make sure everything came through as you intended.
• The School Recommendation Form is an Adobe fillable form. You should be able to open it and type information in the form using the free program Acrobat Reader. However, you may not be able to save the completed form to your computer if you do not have the full Adobe Acrobat Pro program. In that case, you need to print the completed form, get the required signature on the 4th page, and then scan the form to save it on your computer.
• You can also monitor the student's progress through the application by clicking on "Details". This page will indicate how many pages of the application have been completed. The system only checks for entries for the answers. It does not check for quality of the answer. It is possible that students have entered incomplete answers so that the system will let them go to the next page. You may need to check with students on your own to see where they actually are in the application process.
• Students must complete all of the application questions and SUBMIT the application in order to be considered.
• The AGS Person Status will change to "Student Applicant" once all the required information and items have been received. If the student has completed the application but the status does not change to Student Applicant, it is generally because they have not submitted their application.

Teacher Recommendations:

• Many students who start the application process will not complete the process all the way through to submission. We know teachers are busy and therefore we do not want them to have to work on a teacher recommendation for a student who may not complete the application.
• Therefore, when the student enters the teacher’s name and email address for a recommendation, an initial email will be sent to the teacher letting them know that the student has tentatively listed them to give a recommendation but the link to submit the recommendation will not be included.
• Once the student has submitted their completed application, a second email will be sent to the teacher with a link that they can use to complete their recommendation. Teachers have 3 additional weeks after the student deadline to complete their recommendation.
• An email will also be sent to the school personnel who nominated the student with the name and email address of the teacher. Please check to make sure the email address is correct for the recommending teacher and that the person indicated is actually a teacher and not a friend or family member.
• Nominators can check the status of the teacher recommendation and correct the email address from the student "Details" page on their nominator account. There will also be a link to the teacher recommendation if for some reason the email gets lost. Each link is specific to the student and the recommending teacher.

 

Please email ags@atu.edu with any questions.