Most students are admitted to the school provisionally pending receipt of a final transcript. New freshmen who fail to submit a transcript which shows receipt of a high school diploma and graduate students who fail to submit a transcript showing that a bachelor's degree has been conferred are not eligible to receive financial aid. If aid has been disbursed it will be returned and the student will owe the school for any accrued charges and the amount of aid that was refunded to the student for living expenses.
Students taking continuing education courses, visiting students, and special students who have been allowed to take courses but have not been formally accepted by the college are considered non-matriculated and are not eligible to receive financial aid.
Postbaccalaureate teacher certification students are eligible to receive aid as undergraduates even though they are not in a degree or certificate program. Likewise, undeclared (premajor) graduate students may also be eligible to receive aid for one year as an undergraduate, if they are taking prerequisites, even though they have not been accepted into a degree program.
