Admission

Provisional, Probationary vs Unconditional Admission

When you get college admission in USA, your I-20 will state one of the following admission types.

  1. Unconditional Admission
  2. Probationary admission
  3. Provisional admission

In this post lets explore above 3 types of admission and how it impacts your financial aid.

If you have an understanding about different admission types and flowchart of graduate school admission process, you can be better prepared during visa interview.

Unconditional  admission

  • Unconditional or Full admission to a graduate degree program means that you have met all requirements for admission
  • Have been accepted by the department and the graduate School

Basically, you got admission without any problems.

Probationary admission

Probationary admission means that you have do not meet all requirements for full admission. This can a low GPA (or percentage), not meeting department requirements, or lack of background for the chosen master’s program. You will change from probationary to unconditional admission upon completing the requirements.

  • For example, if you apply for department transfer (Mechanical to Computer Science), you will have to complete all the pre-requisite courses before you will be considered in unconditional admission status.
  • If your first semester GPA drops below 3.0 your admission status will go to probationary.

Students will not be eligible for financial aid under probationary admission.

Provisional admission or Conditional

Provisional admission is usually give when some of the some admission documents are missing. For instance, when you are applying for Fall 2011, you might not have senior year (7th and 8th semester) transcripts and degree certificate. You will be allowed to college with provisional admission status.

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9 Comments

  1. I received Probationary Admission when I was accepted into a PhD Program at the University of Wisconsin. Once I completed all the required course work and internship, I was still prevented by the department from completing my dissertation and receiving my degree. Just 1 professor in the department didn’t like me .

  2. I m vijeta I got admission for summer intake at Wilmington university..my sponsor is govt of India.i wanted to know about tution fee year wise .in my i20 its mentioned tuition fee for nine months is doller 10,600,living expenses 11,000 total 21,600 and finding for nine months is doller 49,838 .now I govt is asking year wise fee detail can you please help me how to explain them.

  3. How do i get admission into any university in turkey that offers undergraduate course in information technology?

  4. Hello Sir,

    In Probationary admission status, will the student be able to apply or eligible for intern or scholarship based on his performance in his first semester.

  5. Looking at the topic I though it would be something related to the "Early Admission" process as it is one of the types of getting an admit.

    Not all schools support it but it's still an option for those who are sure about choosing a particular university. The only details I have is that you have to send the documents much earlier and the school confirms the admission around November itself. But then once you accept it, you can't back out or apply to other schools.

    Can you shed some more light on it…

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