ADMISSIONS
No. 6-2 Rev. 12-14-10 Date 4-20-77
III. ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
A. The University will establish admission application deadlines for each academic term. Applicants must submit all required credentials and forms by the established deadlines as published annually in the University catalog.
B. Admission to the University does not ensure acceptance into a specific program, department, or college of the University. Academic units may require additional information and separate applications for admission into specific programs.
C. General Application Criteria:
1. Applications will be reviewed when all required information is on file.
2. Documents submitted by applicants who do not enroll will be discarded after a period of one semester.
3. If admission is granted prior to
graduation from an accredited high
school graduation or while work is in progress at another college or
university, the admission decision is contingent upon satisfactory completion of
high school graduation requirements, or the work in progress, and will be
revoked if the student fails to graduate or if the transfer work is not
acceptable.
4. Acceptance notices are valid only for the semester indicated.
a. Applicants who do not register during the semester for which they were accepted and who wish to be admitted for a subsequent semester must notify the Admissions Office.
5. In the absence of a final cumulative high school
GPA from an accredited high school,
non-high school graduates will be considered for admission only if their ACT/SAT
composite score meets or exceeds an annually established benchmark.
D. Application Requirements by Application Status
1. New Freshmen - New freshmen applicants will be admitted based on the following:
Verification of high school graduation
from an accredited high school or
General Education Development Test (GED) with scores established by the
University (applicants from Utah must submit Basic or Alternative completion
Diplomas and transcripts), and minimum scores on the ACT (or SAT equivalent), or
ACCUPLACER tests according to the WSU Assessment & Placement Standards
document.
Application Requirements by Application Status Based
on test results students will be placed in specific English, math or reading
courses according to the WSU Assessment & Placement Standards document. A fee
will be charged for each assessment test. Students are not allowed to register
for any course(s) before taking all applicable tests. All students requiring
developmental coursework must enroll in and not withdraw from their initial
developmental course(s) within the first two semesters. These students
Upon enrolling in a developmental course, these
students are then required to enroll in developmental course(s)
and make progress (defined
as the minimum course grade of C) each subsequent semester
(excluding summer) until all relevant minimum developmental requirements
(including Math 1010 if applicable) have been met for the students' declared
degree program of study (A.A.S., A.S., A.A., or bachelor's degree). Otherwise,
a hold will be placed on their registration which can only be removed by the
Student Success Center. Students who are out
of compliance with WSU’s Assessment & Placement Policy three times or more will
only be allowed to register for their required developmental courses until they
have been successfully completed with a grade of C or better.
2. Admission of Transfer Students - Students seeking to transfer to the University will be admitted in accordance with the following guidelines: