Applicants will be notified in writing of their admission decision. A student’s application, including all required materials, is valid for one year from the date of initial admissions decision.

Acceptance

All admission criteria have been met and all admission materials have been received.

Conditional Acceptance

The student has not met all admission requirements. Remaining requirements must be met prior to deadlines stated in the acceptance letter.

Provisional Acceptance

Students entering Bethel with a cumulative high school or college GPA below 2.0 (on a 4.0 scale) are provisionally admitted. In addition, students entering with below 45 transfer credits are provisionally admitted.

• The college GPA will be used to determine provisional acceptance if 12 or more college credits have been completed in A-F letter-graded courses;
• The high school GPA will be used if fewer than 12 college credits have been completed in A-F letter-graded courses.

Students admitted provisionally with fewer than 45 transfer credits and below a 2.5 cumulative college GPA will not be allowed to proceed beyond 3 courses of coursework taken for a letter grade (A - F) until all Foundations of Academic Readiness (FAR) requirements are met. These students should work with their Student Success Advisor in order to fulfill the FAR requirements at the beginning of their course of study.

Provisional Evaluation

Provisional evaluation provides an early assessment of academic success specific to provisionally-admitted students. Provisional evaluation occurs at the end of the term in which a provisionally-admitted student has completed 12 credits in A-F graded courses at Bethel.  

If the student meets the minimum required cumulative Bethel GPA for provisionally-admitted students (1.70) at the time of their provisional evaluation the student will be allowed to continue in their program of study and will then fall under the regular Academic Standing requirements.

If the student does not meet the minimum required cumulative Bethel GPA for provisionally-admitted students (1.70) at the time of their provisional evaluation, the student will be academically dismissed  

Some Bethel University programs may have more stringent policies for continued enrollment than those expressed in the university Provisional Evaluation policy. Such program specific requirements are listed with program information and/or the student handbook

Limited Enrollment

Limited Enrollment is for students who do not meet or do not wish to meet the General Admission Requirements. Students with Limited Enrollment are permitted to enroll as non-degree seeking students for no more than two courses in their first term from a limited list of available courses. Limited Enrollment students must maintain good academic standing in their first term before continuing as non-degree seeking students.