Eligibility

Who is Eligible?

• Teams must consist of graduate students enrolled full-time at an accredited educational institution in the United States or Canada for the academic period in which the competition is conducted.
• Part-time business/real estate students and fifth-year B.Arch.  or L.Arch students may be eligible to participate provided they meet the specific criteria outlined in the supplemental verification forms found in the Submitting Your Application section.
• Members of the jury; the competition advisers; all officials, current employees, and recent former employees of the Urban Land Institute (ULI); the employees, students, and immediate families of any of the aforementioned parties; and those who ULI deem to present conflicts of interest are ineligible to compete.
• All students from the finalist teams in the 2010 and 2011 competitions are ineligible to compete.

ULI reserves the right to disqualify teams or to limit the number of teams allowed to participate in the competition. Teams will be notified by e-mail to the designated student team leader on Monday, December 11, 2011 as to their participation status.

Teams can be disqualified if:

• they do not have the proper number or mix of students;
• they do not have a faculty adviser;
• they do not have the endorsement of their school/department/program head;
• their application is late; or
• they have not included all the necessary documentation with the application.

Please see the section entitled “How to Form a Team” for more detailed information regarding the requirements for student teams.

ULI reserves the right to limit the number of participating teams and the advancing teams can be chosen based on geographic diversity, team statements, team makeup, university diversity, or any of the criteria listed above.