Bad news, Everybody!

[Kaz]

I can't remember/find if the academic policy date is set the day you enroll or the day they complete the official evaluation.

I am also going to ask if changing majors within Liberal Arts affects the policy date.

Kinda' neither. I believe the phrase "academic policy date" is being used with a little incorrect emphasis here. Students don't have an academic policy date. That was my confusion. The school has dates that they set academic policy on. Apparently July 1st 2010 is the next one. You get to do your degree under the policy that was in effect when you enrolled. You are enrolled as soon as you get them a completed enrollment form and they take your money. As long as you don't trigger a "re-enrollment event" (my own term) you shouldn't lose the policy you started with. Examples are dropping out and coming back or changing from the Liberal Arts school to the Business school. I don't know if changing majors would count as a re-enrollment event.

Excelsior defines enrollment and matriculation differently. Enrollment is described above. Matriculation occurs after the initial evaluation is completed. Everything I've been able to find on the policy dates revolves around enrollment, not matriculation, so not having your evaluation completely finished doesn't seem to matter. IOW, you don't have to be matriculated in order to lock-in the current academic policy, only enrolled.

https://www.excelsior.edu/Excelsior_Coll...ndbook.pdf