Qualifications for acceptance
What instances have occurred that a school would accept a person who did not meet normal basic qualifications for acceptance if any? Also Does this come up often and any advice on it?
Dawayne,
That would depend on whether it was an admission standard required by your school.
Kimberly Stein
To have a student qualify. Do he or she need a credit check and if so do they have to have good credit to attend school?
I absolutely agree. Typically the main qualifications that students don't meet when trying to enroll other than being financially able to pay are academic. We have people who have no diploma or GED, and they do not qualify. And most often if a student does not qualify it's because they did not have an adequate score on the admission screening exam. If a student can not meet the minimum academic requirements the chances of them falling behind on the in class material is very high. Also, being a medical school, we are preparing students to take care of people, and we would not be very responsible if we pushed through students who did not meet the minimum requirements.
There are set guidelines for a reason. The course guides and agents must clearly state what are the acceptance procedures and requirements for the students to meet, prior to their application to the institution. I don't think that the school should make any special qualifications for students, because it's just molding the students for failure.
Andrea,
It shouldn't come up very often. If a school is making numerous exceptions to its' admission policy the school likely needs to revise its admission policy.
John Ware
