APPLYING FOR A DEGREE

You will not receive a bachelor's degree until you take the initiative of filing a degree application. Forms for this purpose are available from the Undergraduate Adviser Margot Nims (margot@phys.washington.edu / 206-543-2772 / C139A, PAT). The time to file your application is at the beginning of the second quarter before the quarter in which you want to receive the degree. (For example, in autumn quarter if you expect to graduate at the end of spring quarter.)

Physics majors submit their degree applications to the Undergraduate Adviser Margot Nims (margot@phys.washington.edu / 206-543-2772 / C139A, PAT)

When filling out the degree application, do not list courses to be completed by name or course number unless they are required specifically to fulfill minimum degree requirements. If you have requirements to complete (for example: humanities distribution credits) for which many choices are possible, simply indicate the area and the number of credits (for example: humanities distribution, 5 credits). If you must earn a certain amount of credit to make up the required total of 180 credits, but do not need to take specific courses or kinds of courses to meet that minimum credit requirement, simply indicate the amount of credit under electives. Do not indicate credit beyond the minimum required even if you plan to take more credit.

(The reason for these rules is that the primary use of the application form is to enable the Graduations Office to check that requirements still to be completed actually are completed. You will be held to exactly what you write down in the application. Hence, you should not list anything that is not actually necessary and about which you might have a change of heart.)

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