Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis arrived at Southeast Missouri State University before the university evaluated his transcript from the university he attended in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Southeast Missouri State University President Dr. Kenneth W. Dobbins said at a press conference Thursday that Nafis came to the United States on Jan. 9. Southeast received his transcript from North South University on Jan. 18, the day after classes started.

Nafis was arrested for planning to bomb the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. Nafis attended Southeast only in the 2012 spring semester.

Nafis was admitted into Southeast before he came into the United States and did not put his college transcripts on his application, Dobbins said.

According to the university's admissions application for international students, applicants are required to submit complete secondary and post-secondary transcripts that are verified by their previous schools and confirmation of graduation.

"He submitted his scores from high school," Dobbins said. "When he came to Southeast, he brought his transcript, we evaluated his transcript and told him he could not be regularly admitted and changed his admission status."

Dobbins said that a letter was sent to Nafis stating he was on academic probation.

Dobbins said academic requirements for international students are higher than non-international students.

"Their test scores have to be a little higher," Dobbins said.

Heather Meng, the assistant director of International Admissions, told the Arrow on Thursday that she would not be available to discuss the process of international admissions until next week.

According to an AP report, a North South University official said that Nafis was "a terrible student who was put on probation and threatened with expulsion if he didn't bring his grades up and that he eventually stopped coming to school."

Nafis continued his pattern at Southeast.

Dobbins said he spoke with a few faculty members who had Nafis in their classes. The faculty members told Dobbins that Nafis frequently was absent.

Dobbins said during the press conference that Nafis had poor grades at North South University but was not failing.

Earlier Thursday Dobbins said he was unaware of Nafis' academic problems in Bangladesh when asked about them by an Arrow reporter.

"I have no knowledge of that and even if I did, which I don't, under the Family Educational Rights of Privacy Act, I can't talk about that," Dobbins said. "That university actually can't do it either, and that's a federal law."

Nafis requested his transcript be transferred to a Brooklyn, N.Y., institute over the summer, according to Dobbins.

"We complied by his request and followed the procedures of the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, which means we sent his records and notified homeland security that he had left Southeast," Dobbins said.

Dr. Dobbins met with the Federal Bureau of Investigation Thursday morning. Agents told him that Southeast was never a target of terrorism and that the campus was safe.

Arrow reporter Cameron Jeffery and sports editor Erin Neier contributed to this report.