Returning Students
Welcome back, Gator! We are excited that you have chosen to continue your education with us. If it has been less than a year, please contact Admission at admissions@lsco.edu to determine your next steps at LSCO.
How to Apply
If it has been more than two long semesters (a year or more):
1. At Lamar State College Orange, our open admissions process is simple. Begin by submitting the online application.
- Choose "Previously a LSCO dual credit student, recently graduated from high school" or "Returning Student (previously attended LSCO)" as your admission type.
- Choose your desired location of instruction.
- Click submit.
- You will receive a link to the admissions application to the email you provided in the Admission Application Access Form. You will have 15 minutes to access the application.
- Once the application is submitted, it will be processed within 24 hours excluding weekends and holidays.
Students with unsettled financial debts to LSCO or any Texas State University System component or incomplete records will not be permitted to register until such obligations are resolved.
2. Submit your official Transcripts
- Official transcripts from ALL colleges previously attended must be submitted, if not
submitted previously or has since been updated.
Students have until the end of their first semester to submit official transcripts. Students intending on receiving financial aid will be required to have all official transcripts on file, to be awarded aid.
- Send Official Transcripts and/or Test Scores:
410 Front Street
Orange, Texas 77630
Student Success Center
Orange, Texas
Lumberton Site
Lumberton, Texas
Polk County Center
Livingston, Texas
Electronic transcripts from your high school or college may be submitted via TRex, Parchment, E-Scripts, National Student Clearinghouse
Test scores can be uploaded using Admissions & Records File Upload
3. Submit Your Bacterial Meningitis shot record if not done previously
- Students under the age of 22 are required to submit a bacterial meningitis shot record.
Evidence of Vaccination must verify that the vaccination was received during the five-year
period prior to and no later than 10 days before the first day of the semester.
- Learn more here: Bacterial Meningitis Vaccination Requirement
- Unable to take the shot? Apply for the Bacterial Meningitis Exemption.
- Only taking online courses. Petition to Waive Bacterial Meningitis.