Purpose:
Provisional admission program policy for graduates of any accredited
high school
Date Approved:
August
11, 1988 (Editorially
amended September 2000 and April 2003)
Background:
To permit the general academic institutions to establish higher standards or exercise enrollment management controls on provisional students dependent on campus needs and capacity to serve these students, approval was given for The University of Texas System Provisional Admission Program Policy, initially approved September 12, 1969, and amended on December 7, 1973, and December 9, 1983.
(Note: Not applicable to U. T. Austin; for U. T. Austin's Coordinated Admission
Program Policy, click here; for U.
T. Austin's Summer Enrollment Plan Policy, click here)
a. The
Provisional Admission Program for freshmen shall apply to all System four-year
general academic components. Any Texas
resident may enter any component institution regardless of his or her high
school record or score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or American
College Test (ACT) provided that he or she has graduated from an accredited
high school with the required units and subjects as prescribed by the
institution.
b. Provisional
admission students may enroll initially in the summer session (both summer
terms) or the spring semester following the student's graduation from high
school provided the student has not previously enrolled in credit courses in
any other institution of higher education following high school graduation.1
c. In
accordance with Part One, Chapter IV, Section 2, Subsection 2.11 of
the Regents' Rules and Regulations,
each institution shall develop an academic policy comparable in minimal course
load to regularly admitted students with the understanding that courses will be
selected from English, mathematics, natural sciences, social sciences,
humanities, and foreign languages.
d. The
student who demonstrates ability to perform college level work by achieving a
GPA of 2.0 or above during the entire summer session (both summer terms)
or during the spring semester may be admitted as a regular University student
in subsequent semesters.
Provisional admission
students who achieve a GPA of at least a 1.5 in their first semester or summer
session (both summer terms) may be allowed to continue for the next semester or
summer session. At the conclusion of
the second period of enrollment, the student must have achieve a cumulative GPA
of 2.0 or above to continue in the institution.
A
component institution may establish higher grade point average requirements or
adopt provisional admission enrollment limits based on institutional enrollment
management needs or capacity by including such provisions in the institutional
General Admissions Policies for approval by the Board.
e. Each
institution will provide some means of academic advisement or counseling for
provisional students to enhance their chances of success.
f. Each
institution will maintain an adequate system of record-keeping on provisional
students for the purpose of evaluating their academic performance.
Any deviations from these
basic guidelines will require approval by the U. T. Board of Regents as a
part of general campus admissions policy statements.
1 U. T. El Paso has, with concurrence of the U. T.
Board of Regents, admitted provisional students in the fall semester since
1973. A fall semester program, called
the Academic Enhancement Program, was approved for U. T. Arlington in 1981.
Last reviewed April 2003