• Students taking courses under special student status are not eligible for financial aid 
• Special student status does not guarantee acceptance
• Students studying in special student status must abide by the prerequisite course requirements listed in the course catalog
• You may take a maximum of 16 QH in special student status
• After completing 16 QH, you will be blocked from further course registration until you have been officially admitted into a program

• Scholarship review will begin once all official transcripts have been received and the applicant is admitted to a program
• Visit our transfer credit policy pages for more information:
  • Bachelor’s Completion Transfer Credit Policies
  • Graduate Transfer Credit Policies

English Language proficiency exam scores are valid for two calendar years from the date of the exam.

To request a deferral, follow these instructions.

Please note that graduate students who have paid the enrollment deposit/committed may request to defer their acceptance once (only) for a future term relative to their original term of acceptance. The requested new term of entry must be within 1 year of their original term of acceptance. The deferral request must be submitted by the add/drop deadline for a full-quarter class for the original   term of acceptance.** If you have not done so already, visit your applicant portal to pay the enrollment deposit/commit. If any student already had 1 deferral request approved, and submits another deferral request, the second request will not be approved; such students are invited to re-apply for admission, without a guarantee of acceptance. There is an exception rule for students in the U.S. military who are called to service or deployed.

**Policy change in effect as of November 1, 2024.

Bachelor’s Completion/Undergraduate Programs Deferral Policy

Please be aware that the University’s academic policy on plagiarism is defined as using the words, ideas, data, code, or other original academic material of another without providing proper citation or attribution. This includes our admissions process.