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Catawba Admissions Deadlines
We encourage you to adhere to the following deadlines to ensure you maximize your chances for admission and scholarship opportunities. Applications and all necessary required items must be submitted and completed by the following dates for consideration:
Early Action Deadline (non-binding): November 15
Students will be notified of their admissions decision on or before December 15.
Regular Decision Deadline: February 1
Students will be notified of their admissions decision on or before March 1.
Rolling Admission Period: Post February 1
Applications submitted after February 1 will be reviewed, and decisions will be released on a rolling basis.
In order to transfer to Catawba College, students must be academically and socially eligible to return to the school they are currently attending or in which they were previously enrolled; and must have attained a cumulative college GPA of 2.0 or higher.
Students with less than 24 hours of college level course work will be evaluated for admission based on their academic performance in high school as well as in college level course work. Students with 25 or more credits of college credit will be evaluated based on their transfer work only.
For more information, visit catawba.edu/transfer
For nearly 170 years, Catawba has provided an education rich in personal attention grounded in experiential learning with a focus on career and vocational development. Not everybody is going to pick Catawba, but Catawba can be a place for anybody.