A student attending any institution for the first time at the undergraduate level. Includes students enrolled in the fall term who attended college for the first time in the prior summer term. A first-year undergraduate student. A student enrolled for 12 or more semester credits, or 12 or more quarter credits, or 24 or more contact hours a week each term. The sum of grade points a student has earned in secondary school divided by the number of courses taken.
Weighting gives students additional points for their grades in advanced or honors courses.
Academic work chosen or designed by the student with the approval of the department concerned, under an instructor's supervision, and usually undertaken outside of the regular classroom structure. Any short-term supervised work experience usually related to a student's major field, for which the student earns academic credit. Any arrangement by which a student completes part of the college program studying in another country. Can be at a campus abroad or through a cooperative agreement with some other U.S. college or an institution of another country. The student may transfer with or without credit.