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: