Spring Admission FAQs

Your official admission packet is on its way! Watch your mailbox over the next week!

To be considered for full need-based financial aid to TCU, you are required to submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and the CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE. Once both documents are submitted, the Office of Scholarship and Financial Aid will deliver a financial aid package.

To ensure your spot in the class entering in spring 2021 you will be required to submit your nonrefundable $500 commitment deposit by July 31, 2020.

During the fall semester away from TCU, incoming spring students often enroll elsewhere or pursue work or volunteer experiences. While all experiences can be valuable to a student’s success, enrolling in college courses usually provides the best opportunity for students to stay on the four-year graduation track upon enrolling at TCU.

To ensure the best opportunity to remain on the four-year graduation track, we recommend that you take courses to satisfy credits within the transferable Core Curriculum at TCU. These credits are required of all students, regardless of major, and many can be transferred into TCU from other colleges or universities. You may reference course equivalency guides on the Office of Admission website to see what specific courses to take. Programs such as Business, Pre-Nursing, and Nutrition require a specific course plan, so please reference the available program guides.

If you choose to take classes at another college or university this summer and/or fall, we will welcome you as a transfer student in January. All we require is that you post a grade point average of no less than 3.0 (with no Ds or Fs) in any transferable coursework you attempt.

Unfortunately, no; IDs are created during Orientation.

As all incoming first-year students are required to live on campus for their first and second year, you will be guaranteed housing beginning in the spring. Housing and Residence Life will contact you in late November to submit the online housing application. Once submitted, you will be notified of your housing assignment in mid-December.

The sorority and fraternity recruitment processes are much less formalized in the spring than in the fall. While they are not required, some Panhellenic and IFC chapters may elect to meet with potential new members and invite new students to join in the spring, though often on a limited basis. Instead, many students who enroll in the spring choose to participate in the more robust recruitment processes during the following fall semester, alongside many other second year students.

Student Development Services offers many ways for new students to get plugged in during the spring semester, even though not all First Year Experience programs will be available. The orientation offered in January will allow new students to get connected to each other, to returning students, and to faculty and staff members on campus. Beyond this, other activities on and off campus, such as a campus-wide new student dinner, will be available, the specifics of which will be communicated at a later date. There will also be a spring Activities Fair available during the first week of class to allow all of campus to be exposed to different organizations and programs available to students.