This policy outlines the step-by-step procedure for prospective students to apply for admission to Richmindale College. It ensures a structured, transparent, and efficient admissions process by defining the requirements, submission methods, and evaluation criteria for all applications.

This policy applies to all prospective students, faculty, and staff at Richmindale College.

Prospective student applicants may apply for admission online from the Richmindale College website on Admissions > Apply for Admission, or copy and paste the link www.richmindale.com/rims/admissions in a web browser. Use the same website link to modify an admission application.

Provide in the online application the required information and documents, including the program to which the applicants are seeking admission and the required admission documents based on their selected program and situation, such as copy of transcripts or certificate of qualification for evaluation purposes. To apply for credit transfer and/or discount, select the appropriate options in the admission application.

Pay the one-time admission fee from the Richmindale College website online via credit card, bank deposit or cash. See the Tuition and Fees section for more details about the admission fee; and Payment Methods section for more details about the payment options.

Although online admission applications are the recommended way to submit an application for faster processing, Richmindale College accepts manual applications through email. To apply manually, applicants may send an email to admissions@richmindale.com with initial information about the admission application, such as the degree program that applicants are interested in, an intention to apply for credit transfer, and an intention to apply for discount. A Richmindale College representative communicates with the applicants, gathers more information to fill out the required information in the applicants’ enrollment agreement, and assists the applicants in fulfilling the requirements and completing the admission process.

Pay the one-time admission fee from the Richmindale College website online via credit card, bank deposit or cash. See the Tuition and Fees section for more details about the admission fee; and Payment methods section for more details about the payment options.

When an admission application is received, Richmindale College sends an acknowledgement email to the applicant that the admission application has been received. It is important that applicants understand, agree, and accept the policies, terms, and conditions of Richmindale College in the catalog.

Richmindale College may not process an admission application if any of the following four minimum requirements are not provided by the applicant:

Admission applications received by Richmindale College are reviewed by Admissions Representatives for any missing requirements. Admissions Representatives communicate the admission application status of applicants via their registered email address.

When Richmindale College receives all requirements, Admissions Representatives forward the completed applications to the Richmindale College Admissions Committee for evaluation. Richmindale College sends a notification email to the applicants to notify them that their applications have been processed. The notification email contains the following information:

Applicants must complete the verification requirement within 21 calendar days from the notification email date, or their admission application will be cancelled. If applicants delay the online verification meeting with a Richmindale Admissions Representative, the application approval process will be delayed.

Richmindale College sends the admission application status information to applicants within the specified response time via their registered email. The status can be one of the following: approved, denied, needs more information, or needs more time to evaluate. If an admission application is denied, Richmindale College documents the reasons and provides the basis for the denial of admission. If the Admissions Committee needs more information or needs more time to evaluate the application, the response email includes the response time, in business days, that Richmindale will complete the approval process. If the Admissions Committee needs more information, the response time resets and starts from the date when Richmindale College receives all the information.

Approval of admission applications takes a maximum of 10 business days from the date when all admission requirements are received by Richmindale College.

Credit transfer evaluation takes another 10 business days, maximum, on top of the admission approval process, from the date when all credit transfer evaluation requirements are received by Richmindale College. Discount application takes another additional 10 business days, maximum, from the date when all discount requirements are received by Richmindale College.

Any missing requirements may delay the admission approval process.

When admission applications are approved, an admission notification email is sent to the accepted applicants to officially inform them of their admission acceptance to their selected program. The notification email contains the following information:

An enrollment agreement is not binding until it has been signed by the applicant and an official Richmindale College representative. Applicants must sign all pages of the agreement. Applicants may fill and sign their enrollment agreement electronically using a software application, such as Adobe Acrobat, or manually using wet ink and scan.

Applicants must send back their duly signed enrollment agreement to Richmindale College via email using their registered email address that is provided in the enrollment agreement within 14 calendar days from the admission notification email date, or they may be denied admission.

After receiving an applicant’s signed enrollment agreement, Richmindale College sends back the fully executed enrollment agreement, with the Richmindale College official representative signature, to the applicant via the applicant’s registered email within 10 business days of receiving the signed enrollment agreement from the applicant.

When an enrollment agreement is fully executed, applicants become official students and Richmindale College provides them their user account credentials log in to the Richmindale College learning management system and student portal.

Admission applicants and students must use their registered email address that they provided in the admission application and reflected in the enrollment agreement to communicate with Richmindale College, especially when sending digitally signed documents such as an enrollment agreement, to be used as evidence to confirm the applicants’ official communication with Richmindale College.