[EXTERNAL] [La-cgs] WES evaluation requirements?

[Eddie Lyons]

Good morning everyone:

McNeese's international admissions policy states the following  are required:


  1.  Have complete, official college transcripts and diplomas sent directly from the institution to the Office of Admissions. All documents must be properly attested by either the registrar, attestation officer, or controller of examinations. Transcripts must be in English or accompanied by official line-by-line English translations.
  2.  Submit an official course-by-course evaluation of credentials for all college or university academic credit earned from foreign institutions. Transcripts must be evaluated by World Education Services, Inc. (www.wes.org<http://www.wes.org/>), The Evaluation Company (www.evalcompany.com<https://evalcompany.com/>), Josef Silny and Associates (www.jsilny.org<http://www.jsilny.org/>), or Global Credential Evaluators, Inc. (www.gceus.com<http://www.gceus.com/>). Detailed instructions for ordering a credential evaluation can be found on each evaluator’s website. The credential evaluation must be sent directly from the evaluation service to the institution.
  3.  Have official GRE or GMAT test scores sent directly from the testing agency to McNeese. (This requirement may be waived for certain programs. See individual program requirements.)

This seems to be working for us.

Eddie K. Lyons, PhD
Executive Director, Doré School of Graduate Studies
Co-chair, Human Subjects Institutional Review Board
McNeese State University
Lake Charles, LA 70609
337-475-4077

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Good afternoon from LA Tech everyone,

We are discussing whether to require WES (or similar) transcript evaluations as a standard requirement for international student applications. A few programs on campus already require this, but there is no institution-wide evaluation mandate.

A few institutions are requiring it, I'd appreciate knowing how you're all approaching this and whether you have any general thoughts or feedback on it.

Yours,
-Leland

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Leland Weiss, PhD
Dean of the Graduate School
Thurman Lauret Professor
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Louisiana Tech University
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