A-6: PROVISIONAL STUDENT (DEGREE SEEKING)/NONDEGREE TO
DEGREE-CAMPUS/COLLEGES
Procedure:
- The vice provost and dean for
enrollment management and administration has delegated the authority to
review requests for change from provisional/nondegree status to the degree
candidate status at the campuses/colleges to the appropriate executive
officer at the campus/college.
- The admissions officer at the
campus/college may evaluate an application for change of status from
provisional/nondegree student to degree candidate for that location. This evaluation may be performed
at the end of the semester in which the applicant has completed at this
University the minimum number of credits (18 credits for a baccalaureate
degree program and 9 credits for an associate degree program) required for
such an evaluation.
- Students seeking a change
from provisional/nondegree status to degree status need to complete the
web application for undergraduate admission found at http://www.psu.edu/admissions/apply. After verifying that the applicant
is qualified for admission to degree candidacy, the admission officer may
authorize the student to register as a degree candidate at that location
for the next semester.
- Evaluations should be
completed and assurance of admission given within the course add period of
registration of the semester for which admission is sought; otherwise the
admission to degree candidacy should be assured for the next semester.
- If the admissions officer
cannot complete the evaluation by verifying all of the required
information, the admission of the student to degree candidacy should be
processed by the admissions office at University Park.
Approved: DARS (2-14-75)
Announced at ACUI: (2-20-75)
Revised: ACUI (5-19-83)
Revised: ACUE (7-26-96)
Revised: Editorial (7-10-98)
Revised: Editorial (3-13-03)
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