Special student. Special student enrollment is a nondegree status. Special students may apply for admission as degree-seeking students by requesting a change of status and by meeting regular admission requirements. Students who have never enrolled in college are generally expected to have been out of high school for two or more years before enrollment at the University as special students.

This is what I have been told that they are making exception to with recent HS Graduates. In the past it has be Shelton State that filled the void, but they can not keep up with those numbers now.

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Posted by sarc

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Posted on 1/3/13 at 4:49 pm to Irons Puppet

I'd like to see some evidence to support that. I read that quote to mean that, in general, students have to be out of high school for 2 years (an exception being someone out of high school for 18 months). You're saying they are basically disregarding the entire purpose of this designation in order to boost enrollment by bringing in recent HS graduates who don't meet normal enrollment requiremnts.

I just don't believe that such a measure would be necessary to increase enrollment. This is from Sept. 2011:

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The freshman class was drawn from a record 22,136 applicants, up over 200 percent since fall 2002. UA has become significantly more selective with 53 percent of applicants admitted for fall 2011, down from 85 percent in 2002.

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With such an increase in applicants, it seems unlikely that UA would be unable to meet enrollment goals with applicants meeting minimum enrollment requirements.

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