Admissions

This is an archived copy of the 2015-16 Catalog. To access the most recent version of the catalog, please visit http://catalog.norwich.edu/.

The admission of students to Norwich University is competitive. Each applicant’s file is carefully reviewed by the Office of Admissions. Norwich University is a rolling admissions school, which means that while applications and deposits may be received past the deadlines outlined below, they are accepted only on a space-available basis.

Application Preferred Deadline:
  • Fall Enrollment: February 1
  • Spring Enrollment: November 15
     
Deposit Deadline:
  • Fall Enrollment: May 1

  • Spring Enrollment: December 1
     

High School Applicants:

Students entering, or during the course of, their senior year are encouraged to submit an application to Norwich University. Online and paper applications are accepted (students must use a Norwich University application, as Norwich is not a member of the “Common App”). In addition to the application, students must submit the following:

1.  Official High School Transcript (including senior year courses and/or senior year grades)

  • Competitive applicants must have completed:
    •  four years of English; four years of mathematics;
    • three years of social sciences/history;
    • three years of lab-based sciences;
    • two years of modern languages.

Each applicant’s file is reviewed considering the academic program that the student has applied for; because some programs are more challenging in certain academic areas than others, the courses and grades earned in each course is carefully scrutinized to ensure that the accepted student is ready for the university coursework

  2.  SAT or ACT Scores (Norwich’s SAT Code is 3669; ACT code is 4308)

  • Students applying for the nursing degree must supply SAT or ACT scores. Applicants for other majors are encouraged to submit scores, though are not required to. Norwich “super-scores” each test, and records only the best scores that the applicant has received.

  3.  Applicants are also highly encouraged, though not required, to submit:

  • Letters of Recommendation;  two or three letters are recommended. Students should choose teachers, coaches, employers, mentors, etc., who know both their academic abilities and their personality.
  • Essay; a 300-500 word open-topic essay may also be submitted.
     
Transfer Applicants:

Students who have completed high school and are enrolled in, or have earned 12 or more college/university credits, are considered transfer applicants. Transfer applicants must submit:

  1. An application to Norwich
  2. Final High School Transcript
  3. College Transcripts
    • Any/all college transcripts must be received to properly review a student’s file. In order to be evaluated for transfer credit, college transcripts must be official.

   4.  Transfer applicants are also highly encouraged, though not required, to submit:

  • Letters of Recommendation; two or three letters are recommended. Students should choose teachers, coaches, employers, mentors, etc., who know both their academic abilities and their personality.
  • Essay; a 300-500 word open-topic essay may also be submitted.
     
International Applicants:

Applicants who are not United States Citizens, or Permanent Residents of the United States, are considered international applicants. International applicants must submit:

  1. an application to Norwich
  2. Secondary school (high school) transcripts;  If the transcript is not in English, the applicant must also submit a translated copy.
  3. English Proficiency
    • Students must submit English language proficiency requirements in one of the following ways:
      • The applicant is a citizen of Australia, Canada (except Quebec), Great Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales), or New Zealand.
      • Submitting TOEFL or IELTS scores
      • The applicant has successfully completed an academic English program at an institution approved by Norwich University’s International Center.
      • The applicant has graduated, or is on track to graduate, from a foreign institution where the language of instruction for the secondary and/or post-secondary degree(s) was English.
      • The applicant has graduated, or is on track to graduate, from a US accredited school abroad with English as the medium of instruction.
      • The applicant has graduated, or is on track to graduate, from a secondary school in the US that he/she attended for a minimum of 1 year and that included at least one unit of college preparatory English.
      • The applicant has earned a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution of higher education in the US or has completed at least 12 or more credits at an accredited institution of higher education in the US.

   4.  International applicants are also encouraged to submit:

  • Letters of Recommendation;  two or three letters are recommended. Students should choose teachers, coaches, employers, mentors, etc., who know both their academic abilities and their personality.
  • Essay; a 300-500 word open topic essay may also be submitted.
     
Interested in Admissions:

All students seeking admission to Norwich University are highly encouraged to contact our office. In addition to phone/email contact, students and families should consider visiting our campus to get a better feel of the university and the opportunities offered to prospective students. Day visits can be scheduled during the week, Monday-Friday, and families are asked to kindly schedule with two weeks advance notice.

Office of Admissions:

Address: Norwich University, 27 I.D. White Avenue,Northfield, VT 05663; Phone:  802.485.2001;  Email: nuadm@norwich.edu , Web: www.norwich.edu/admissions