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Undergraduate Admissions
Undergraduate Admissions Office of Undergraduate Admissions Campus Address and Phone: Address: 219 Student Union, Stillwater, OK 74078-1035 Phone: 405-744-5358 or 1-800-233-5019 ext. 1 Website: admissions.okstate.edu (http://admissions.okstate.edu) E-mail: admissions@okstate.edu Application Procedure • When to Apply. Incoming freshmen may begin the application process at Oklahoma State University beginning July 1 once they have completed their junior year in high school and have an official six-semester transcript. Oklahoma State University’s priority scholarship deadline for students who plan to enroll in the summer or fall semester are: • November 1: Early Opportunity Scholarship Deadline • February 1: Priority Scholarship Deadline • July 1: Final Scholarship Deadline The priority scholarship deadline for students planning to enroll in the spring semester is October 15. • How to Apply. Students can apply online via the Undergraduate Admissions website or apply in person at the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. OSU requires a non-refundable application fee of $40 or application fee waiver for domestic students. Official transcripts and test scores are also required before an admission decision can be determined. • Freshman. For the purpose of determining admission, a freshman student is one who has earned no more than six hours of college level credit after graduation from high school. (This excludes credits earned concurrently with high school enrollment and credit earned by examination.) • Concurrent. For the purpose of determining admission, a concurrent student is one who is currently enrolled as a high school junior or senior and is interested in earning college coursework during their junior or senior year of high school. • Transfer. For the purpose of determining admission, a transfer student is one who has earned seven or more semester hours of college-level credit after graduation from high school. • Readmission. A student who has attended OSU, but was not enrolled during the immediate past semester (except the summer session), must submit an updated Application for Admission/Scholarship and a current application fee or waiver. A student who has enrolled in another college or university since last attending OSU must submit a transcript from each institution, an updated Application for Admission/Scholarship and a current application fee or waiver. A returning service member whose enrollment was interrupted due to service obligations must submit an updated Application for Admission/Scholarship. Returning service members must submit confirmation of military service orders that necessitated absence from the university in order to receive an application fee waiver. Admission status will be determined after an evaluation of all previous work has occurred. Freshman Admission Requirements For purposes of admission, a freshman student is one who has earned no more than six hours of college level credit after graduation from high
school. (This excludes credits earned concurrently with high school enrollment and credit earned by examination) To be admitted in good standing a student must graduate from an accredited high school or have earned a General Education Diploma (GED) and meet both the performance and curricular requirements listed below. (Accredited high schools are those fully accredited by one of the six regional associations of schools and colleges or by the individual state department of education.) Performance Requirements To be admitted in good standing, a student must satisfy at least one of the following performance standards and all of the curricular requirements listed below. 1. Achieve a four-year high school unweighted GPA of 3.00 or higher (on an unweighted 4.00 grading scale; GPA is an unweighted average of all grades “A” equating to 4.00 and “D” equating to 1.00 taken 9th through 12th grades), and rank scholastically among the top one-third (33.3%) of their graduating class, or 2. Achieve a GPA of 3.00 or higher (on a 4.00 grading scale standard weighting (1.0) to The College Board’s Advanced Placement courses and the International Baccalaureate higher-level courses) in the required 15 core high school courses (see Curricular Requirements listed below) and attain either an ACT composite score of 21 or higher or a total SAT score of 980 or higher, or SAT score 1060, or 3. Attain an ACT composite score of 24 or higher or a total SAT of 1160 or higher. 4. Achieve a GPA of 3.00 or higher (on a 4.00 grading scale standard weighting (1.0) to The College Board’s Advanced Placement courses and the International Baccalaureate higher-level courses) in the required 15 core high school courses OR attain either an ACT composite score of 22 or higher OR a total SAT score of 1100 and answers to the application questions. SAT total score is the combination of Critical Reading and Math sections only. SAT scores indicated here represent tests taken on or after the National March 2016 test. Curricular Requirements All students must complete the following curricular requirements for admission:
Subjects
Years
English (grammar, composition & literature) Mathematics (algebra I & above)
4
3 History & Citizenship (American history required, plus additional units from economics, geography, government, history, or non-Western culture) 3 Laboratory Science 3
Other (from any of the above or foreign language or computer science)
2
In addition to the above requirements, it is recommended that students also complete the following additional courses:
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