How to Join
How to join DAPi:
- Click here! A one-time $10 application fee will be due upon admittance to the Delta Alpha Pi, BYU chapter.
Criteria:
Undergraduates
- Register with the Accessibility Center and provide documentation of disability
- Complete a minimum of 24 credits
- Maintain an overall Grade Point Average of 3.10
- Demonstrate an interest in disability issues
Graduates
- Register with the Accessibility Center and provide documentation of disability
- Complete a minimum of 18 credits
- Maintain an overall Grade Point Average of 3.30
- Demonstrate an interest in disability issues
What’s expected of DAPi members?
- Attend at least one planning meeting and at least one DAPi activity each semester.
- Participate in the planning and execution of at least one DAPi activity (service, social, or educational)
- Maintain a 3.1 or higher GPA for undergraduates, 3.3 or higher GPA for graduates.
Benefits of Membership:
- Recognition as an honor student who happens to have a disability.
- Membership in a dynamic organization with over 3200 members nationwide.
- Joining a community of like-minded students who also are high-achievers with a disability and who support rather than criticize.
- Developing or enhancing skills in leadership through activities such as holding an office or being a mentor.
- Developing or enhancing advocacy skills for yourself and for others with disabilities.
- Learning how to plan and implement programming to educate others about disability issues.
- Having the opportunity to “give forward” by helping to lessen the stigma surrounding disability and demonstrating that students with disabilities can be and are successful.
- Wearing the DAPi blue and gold honor cords at commencement/ graduation.
- Having the opportunity to apply for the $2000 DAPi scholarship which is awarded each year to an active undergraduate member of a chapter of DAPi.
- Enhancing your resume through membership in an academic honor society.