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University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Policy Name: Admission Categories
Policy Number: 502.1
Effective Date: April 1, 2010 (review date)

Policy:

After reviewing the appropriate credentials, an admissions officer will determine if a student may be accepted or deferred admission. Non-degree‐seeking students will be classified as transient, temporary, Non-degree seeking, or another classification. To ensure that all necessary requirements for admission have been fulfilled before registration, students are urged to submit all transcripts of previous academic work at least 30 days before registration. Transcripts from other institutions of higher education must be sent directly to UALR by the institution.

Admissions Categories of Entering Freshmen

First-time entering freshmen are persons who have never been enrolled in an institution of higher education since graduating from high school or earning a GED. Such applicants must submit:

  1. Completed application for admission
  2. Official high school transcript or GED scores
  3. ACT or SAT scores taken within the previous five years
  4. Proof of two MMR immunizations (required of all applicants born after January 1, 1957)
Transfer Students

Transfer students are those who have been enrolled previously in a higher institution of learning and have at least 12 transferable college credit hours and a grade point average of at least 2.00 on all previous college work to be granted regular admission. Such applicants must submit:

  1. Completed application for admission
  2. Official transcript of each college previously attended sent to UALR by the college
  3. Proof of two MMR immunizations (required of all applicants born after January 1, 1957)

Transfer credit from regionally accredited institutions will be evaluated only after a completed application for admission and final transcripts have been received. Transcripts from institutions not accredited by the regional accrediting associations will be handled at the discretion of the Director of Records and Registration. Students presenting such transcripts may be given provisional credit subject to the satisfactory completion of further work at UALR in subjects for which they are asking advanced standing and a satisfactory grade point average. However, such transcripts may be refused altogether. Only official transcripts will be accepted for evaluation. They must include complete records of the courses taken at all other institutions and be sent to UALR by the institutions. The director may also request that a catalog or bulletin of the years covered by the transcript be presented.

Provisional Admission

Transfer students who have not submitted all credentials necessary for admission by the application deadline may be admitted provisionally. In such cases, the student is admitted with the provision that s/he submit the missing admission credentials by the end of the term during which provisional admission was granted. The credentials will be evaluated upon receipt, and the student will be admitted and placed in the appropriate student status, or deferred admission.
If evaluation of the records shows that the student does not meet UALR’s minimum admission requirements, the student may be required to reduce the number of courses for which he or she is currently enrolled. For example, the student may be limited to no more than seven credit hours of enrollment. Such reductions may occur after the semester has already begun, in which case the student may be required to withdraw from some courses.


Source: Undergraduate Catalog 2009-10, p.11
Revised:
Approved By: Dr. Charles Donaldson, VCESS
Custodian:

Updated 9.30.2010