You will be notified of your admission decision about one month after the application deadline. You will be notified by e-mail when the decisions are made. You will be asked to pick up your notification from the communications main office (360 BRMB). Please include a legal size envelope with your name, emphasis, and BYU ID number on the front. This will be used for your admission notification.
Students who fail to meet the minimum standards are encouraged to find another major at BYU. Additionally, students may apply to the communications program only twice. If you are not admitted into the program the second time, you cannot apply again.
If you are admitted to the program, you will be required to attend an orientation meeting. Students who don't attend will forfeit their place in the program.
Students who are admitted into the program cannot begin to take courses in their emphasis until the next semester or term. This delay in taking courses is one of the frustrating results of the admission process. Communications faculty strongly recommend taking courses in a planned minor during the application semester. This serves two purposes: first, all communications students should complete a minor to give them a much broader understanding of social behavior; second, the minor could prove to be a worthwhile major should you not be accepted into the communications program.
The five emphases allow flexibility in your course schedule. However, where prerequisite courses are involved, accreditation rules preclude us from waiving prerequisites or allowing courses to be taken out of sequence. These courses represent what we consider to be important preparation for more-advanced classes.
