World Education Services Evaluation Requirements To ensure accurate assessment of international transcripts, a World Education Services (WES) evaluation is required of all students who have studied outside of the United States. All official transcripts from non-US post-secondary educational institutions must be translated (as applicable) and sent directly to WES by the issuing institution. This is required before a missions file will be considered complete. Information is available at www.wes.org. Students can apply for an evaluation on the WES website, and should apply for the Course-by-Course evaluation if they have completed any university-level coursework. If transcripts and diplomas are in languages other than English, students must provide a translation. On the WES form, the student must request a copy of the report to be sent to "a third party" and indicate the following: Office of Admissions Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary PO Box 1889 Wake Forest, NC27587-1889 WES evaluations may take up to 4-6 weeks to be completed.
New International Student Orientation All international students attending the main campus or students who are entering under a new application are required to attend New International Student Orientation at the beginning of their first semester. Orientation information is delivered to accepted students one month prior to the beginning of the semester. During orientation students will take care of class registration, parking decals, student identification cards, as well as having a photograph taken and remitting payment for tuition and fees. Under no circumstances are students allowed to register for courses prior to this assigned time.
Math and English Placement Math and English placement exams are required for all international undergraduate students. These exams are given the first day of New Student Orientation. The Math and English Placement section of this catalog provides more information on this requirement.
Visiting Campus Wake Forest, NC, is home to the approximately 300-acre campus of Southeastern. The school is located 10 miles north of Raleigh and 25 miles east of Durham. Together with Chapel Hill, the three cities comprise an area known as the Research Triangle. The Triangle area is home to three of the nation’s major universities: Duke University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University. The town of Wake Forest is at the intersection of US 1 at NC 98. It is serviced by the Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) and is easily reached from Interstates 95, 85, 40, and 540.
Preview Days Preview Days at Southeastern provide opportunities for prospective students to see firsthand what God is doing at Southeastern, to hear from our faculty and students, and to fellowship with others who are discerning a call to ministry. During the scheduled Preview Days, prospective students attend classes, tour the campus, have dinner with some of
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