{"id":10672,"date":"2021-12-10T12:16:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T17:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/?page_id=10672"},"modified":"2024-10-25T10:13:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T14:13:42","slug":"reduced-course-load-for-medical-reasons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/reduced-course-load-for-medical-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduced Course Load For Medical Reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/welcome\/incoming-students\/maintaining-your-f-1-status\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> F-1 immigration status<\/a> are required to maintain full-time status. They are required to obtain approval from the PDSO in the Center for Global Education office prior to dropping below a full course load, in order to maintain their status. If you are uncertain if you qualify for a reduced course load, please schedule an appointment via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-affairs\/batesreach\/\">BatesReach<\/a>, with the PDSO.<\/p>\n<p>F-1 students who experience a medical emergency or event and need a break from their studies, should work with the PDSO to request a reduced course load (RCL) for medical conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Students may apply for a reduced course load (RCL) if they have a temporary medical condition or illness that would require them to enroll in less than full-time courses or no courses at all. They must provide medical documentation issued within the past 30 days from their licensed professional holding one of the following credentials: medical doctor (MD), doctor of osteopathy (DO), or licensed clinical psychologist (PhD or PsyD) who is practicing in the United States. The documentation is usually in the form of a letter and should specify if it is recommended that the student enroll in a part-time course load or in no credits. The PDSO may authorize an RCL for up to 12 months during the course of study at that program level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remember:<\/strong> You must always talk to the PDSO <strong>before<\/strong> you stop attending classes, otherwise you risk having your SEVIS record terminated by the PDSO for unauthorized withdrawal and must depart the United States immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in F-1 immigration status are required to maintain full-time status. They&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":924,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-10672","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10672"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11892,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10672\/revisions\/11892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/global-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}