2024-2025 Graduate Bulletin

2. Admission, Readmission, and Enrollment

2.1   Veterans with a high school diploma or GED shall be accepted at one of the colleges of CUNY, subject to space availability.

2.2   Veterans with no previous CUNY college experience shall be permitted to file applications for admission at any time prior to the date that registration is scheduled to begin, irrespective of University’s deadlines for filing such applications.

2.3   Veterans whose high school averages qualify them for admission may be enrolled as non-matriculated students if they fail to meet admissions application deadlines and space is not available for them as matriculated students. Those veterans shall be enrolled as matriculated students the next semester and shall receive academic credit for courses they completed as non-matriculated students.

2.4   When veterans’ applications lack supporting data at the time of scheduled registration, those veterans, subject to space availability, shall be admitted pending receipt of such supporting data, provided, however, that they have presented evidence of a high school diploma or GED.

2.4.1   Upon receipt of the supporting documentation to complete their applications, veterans shall be placed in full matriculation if they meet the admission requirements of the college or if they meet the college’s academic standards for continued matriculation at the end of the aforementioned semester.

2.4.2   Veterans admitted under section 2.4 shall forfeit their matriculated status if they fail to provide the documentation required by the college to complete the admissions application or if they fail to meet the college’s academic standards for continued matriculation.

2.5  Admitted veterans who return from active duty at any time during the term will be given the opportunity to audit courses without credit.

2.6   Admitted veterans who return from active duty after the completion of their colleges’ registration period shall be permitted to enroll without late registration fee.

2.7   Admitted veterans who are former CUNY students who had been academically dismissed from a college of CUNY shall be granted readmission to that college but placed on probationary status.

2.8   Veterans applying to graduate degree programs or applying for graduate non-matriculated status should apply directly to the college that they wish to attend.