Autumn 2027 - Doctoral Program Hardship Request

This form is for applicants who are experiencing difficulties submitting application materials to the Stevens Doctoral Program because of a widespread disruption, which affects access to your means of completing or submitting an application requirement. In case of such a disruption, we may allow you to submit your application without one or more required application materials (e.g. TOEFL/IELTS), although it does not waive the requirement(s). You will still be required to submit the missing item(s) as soon as circumstances allow, but before an offer of admission can be made.

This form is not to be used for application fee waiver requests; those must be submitted within the Stevens Doctoral Program application. Fee waiver requests submitted via this form will not be acknowledged or accepted.

Please note that an approval of this request, including temporary waiver of a requirement to allow you to submit your application, does not imply that the requirement(s) will be waived for the purposes of admissions decisions.

Guidelines

1. You must have started an application to the Stevens Doctoral Program before submitting this form.

2. Requests will not be processed without a detailed explanation of the widespread disruption affecting your ability to provide the application requirement.

3. This form may not be used to request an extension of the Chicago Booth PhD application deadline. The application deadline for Fall 2027 is December 15, 2026; all applications must be submitted by 11:59 pm PST in order to be considered.

4. This form is not to be used to request a TOEFL/IELTS waiver for applicants who are already eligible for a permanent TOEFL/IELTS waiver according to our policy. If you are already eligible for the waiver per our policy, we will waive the requirement after processing your submitted Stevens Doctoral Program application.

5. We do not approve hardship requests that are related to personal or family circumstances. Only hardships connected to a natural disaster or other widespread disruption of services, such as access to the internet or electricity, or affecting schools and testing centers' ability to operate and provide services such as transcripts or score reports, qualify for assistance with submission.

Applicant Details

First Name (as it appears on your application)

Last Name (as it appears on your application)

Email Address Associated with Your Application

Application Reference Number (9 Digits)

Birthdate

Hardship Request Details

This form is for the Stevens Doctoral Program only. This form may not be used to request temporary waivers from any other Booth School of Business or University of Chicago program. If you are not applying to the Stevens Doctoral Program, you should not submit this form, as your request will not be processed, nor received, by any other program, and other programs are not obligated to review or honor requests made via use of this form.

Please select 'Stevens Doctoral Program' below, then indicate which Stevens Doctoral Program dissertation area you are applying to from the list of dissertation areas that follows. Since applicants to the Stevens Doctoral Program may apply to only one dissertation area per application cycle, you may select only one of the dissertation area boxes from the list below.

By selecting 'yes' below, you are confirming that you will be submitting an application to the Stevens Doctoral Program, and that you are using this form to submit a hardship request for your Stevens Doctoral Program application only.

Yes

Please indicate the type of hardship request(s) you are making*:
*submission of a request does not guarantee approval of said request, and approval of hardship requests do not result in a permanent waiver of said requirements, but rather a temporary suspension of the requirement to allow applicants to submit their application and have their applications sent for review.

I cannot provide GRE/GMAT scores at this time.

I cannot provide TOEFL/IELTS scores at this time, and I do not qualify for a waiver.

My recommender cannot access the internet to provide a letter at this time.

I have a different request.

GRE/GMAT Scores

Have you taken the GRE or GMAT already?

If you cannot provide an official GRE or GMAT score report as part of your application at this time, please explain why:

If you have not yet taken the GRE or GMAT and do not expect to be able to do so before the application deadline, please explain your situation, and provide as much detail as possible:

TOEFL/IELTS Scores

Have you taken the TOEFL/IELTS already?

If you cannot provide an official TOEFL or IELTS score report as part of your application at this time, please explain why:

If you have not yet taken the TOEFL or IELTS test and do not expect to be able to do so before the application deadline, please explain your situation, and provide as much detail as possible:

Recommendation Letters

Please list which recommender(s) cannot submit their letter(s), and explain why. Please note the intention of this box is not to excuse applicants from securing at least two recommenders. It is only to be used for those applicants who have recommenders secured but have been notified that their recommenders cannot (or may not be able to) submit their recommendations by the application deadline due to widespread disruption as described at the top of this form. Requests that have the 'recommenders' box selected but no recommender names provided in this box will not be processed.

Other Requests

Please detail your request here. We do not guarantee that temporary waivers will be granted on the basis of 'other' requests. This box is NOT to be used to request an application fee waiver or to request to extend the application deadline. Fee waiver requests are made within the Stevens Doctoral Program application, and no deadline extension requests will be granted.