Admission Checklist
Thank you for your interest in attending SOWELA Technical Community College. We look forward to getting to know you and helping you achieve
your educational goals.
After submitting an online application at www.sowela.edu, please submit the following items to the One Stop Enrollment Services Center. Since
you have not yet submitted the indicated items, you have been provisionally accepted. Please note that provisionally accepted students cannot
receive financial aid. Once all final official transcripts and other required documents have been received, students may be fully admitted and
eligible for financial aid consideration.
Please review the checklist below for documents that you are required to submit.
Official High School transcript or Official GED scores
Official college transcript from all colleges/universities attended. Transcripts must be submitted in the following ways:
• In a sealed envelope from the college/university
• e-Script
• Mailed from the college
Proof of Immunization
Placement Scores (The following are accepted. All must be within 3 years)
• ACT scores
• ACCUPLACER
• COMPASS scores
Cost: $25 for entire test; $18 for 2 sections; $11 for 1 section
To register for a placement test, please view the “Online Test Scheduling” at www.registerblast.com/sowela/exam
New Student Orientation
• Schedule online https://www.sowela.edu/orientation
• Phone: Mr. Randall Guidry (337) 421-6973 or Ms. Dedria Walton (337) 421-6967
• E-mail: orientation@sowela.edu
Proof of Selective Service (Males 18-25 only)
NOTE: Once documents have been submitted to the One Stop Enrollment Services Center, they cannot be returned.
Registration and Tuition Payment Deadlines:
P
lease consult the Event Calendar on the SOWELA home page (www.sowela.edu) for details on registration dates, tuition and fee payment
deadlines, semester start and end dates, holidays and more.
It is important to be attentive to the payment/payment plan deadlines. If payment in full, financial aid/scholarship or a payment plan is not in
place to secure your schedule by the payment deadlines, then classes will be removed. Questions about your financial aid and/ or scholarship
status should be sent to financialaid@sowela.edu and questions about your student bill should be sent to businessoffice@sowela.edu.
Do not hesitate to contact the One Stop Enrollment Services Center at onestop@sowela.edu with the enrollment process.
SOWELA Technical Community
College
One Stop Enrollment Services
Lake Charles, LA
Jennings, LA
Revised June 2016
