Requirements

If you don’t meet these requirements, you may well be advised to register for a support that is co-requisite in addition to your math and English course, or perhaps you can be advised to register for an intensive, reading and writing course prior to college composition. Support courses are made to help you in completing your English and math courses during your first semester. Do you really need math or English courses to get a certificate or degree? You are strongly encouraged to take these classes through your first semester. Advisors will assist you within the right course.

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Options to Demonstrate College Readiness

Option 1. ACT, SAT or Accuplacer Scores

Unofficial ACT, SAT, and Accuplacer placement test scores from in the past five (5) years may online be submitted.

The test that is minimum to show College Readiness are as follows:

• ACT | English: 18 | Math: 19 for MAT 120/135 or 23 for MAT 121
• SAT (Taken just before March 2016) | Critical Reading: 430 for English | Math: 460
• SAT (Taken after March 2016) | Evidence-Based Reading and Writing: 470 for English | Math: 500 for MAT 120/135 | Math: 560 or higher for MAT 121
• Classic Accuplacer | Sentence Skills: 95 | Reading Comprehension: 80 (Recommended) | Elementary Algebra: 60 for MAT 120/135 | Elementary Algebra: 85 for MAT 121
• Next Generation Accuplacer | Writing: 246 for ENG 121 | Quantitative Reasoning, Algebra and Statistics: 240 for MAT 120/135/155/156 | Advanced Algebra and Functions: 245 for MAT 121/123.
• Scores from advanced placement exams, international baccalaureate exams, and/or CLEP exams from within the past five (5) years could be submitted for review in the Testing Center.

Option 2. High School Coursework & GPA

• College-Level Math Course without Support Lab
• If you’re currently in or graduated senior high school inside the past couple of years with a 2.75 cumulative unweighted GPA and passed Algebra II or Math III with a “B” grade or better you might enroll in any entry college-level math course without a support lab.
• College-Level Math Course with Support Lab
• You may enroll in any entry college-level math course with the appropriate support lab if you are currently in or graduated high school within the past two years, passed Algebra II or Math III, but do not meet the GPA or grade requirements.
• English 121 without Support Lab
• If you’re currently in or graduated senior high school within the past couple of years with a 2.75 cumulative unweighted GPA and passed English III or AP English with a “B” grade or better you might enroll in English 121 without a support lab.
• English 121 with Support Lab
• If you’re currently in or graduated senior high school in the past couple of years and passed English III or AP English, but do not meet the GPA or grade requirements, you may sign up for CCR 092 or ENG 121 paired with CCR 094.
• You should turn in your high school transcripts to registration and records. We shall review the transcripts to exempt you against taking all or portions for the assessment tests (math, reading and English).

Option 3. College Credit Transfer

Official transcripts are evaluated for transfer of credit and reviewed to exempt a student from taking all or portions associated with assessment tests (math, reading, and English).

Official transcripts and test score reports must certanly be submitted to the working office of Registration & Records (Confluence Building, room 114).

It’s also possible to mail transcripts that are official test scores to your Office of Registration & Records: Campus Box 201, P.O. Box 173363, Denver, CO 80217-3363.

Unofficial college transcripts are reviewed to exempt a student from taking all or portions of the assessment tests (math, reading, and English). Unofficial transcripts should be submitted along side a completed Transcript Intake Form for review.

• Transcripts is likely to be reviewed for evidence that an Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, bachelor’s, master’s, or degree that is doctorate conferred or that developmental or college-level courses demonstrating reading, writing, and math was successfully (C or higher) completed at a regionally accredited institution.
• International transcripts must be evaluated and translated by one of many agencies listed on the NACES webpage.
• Math coursework completed a lot more than 10-years ago cannot be employed to be eligible for an exemption from the math assessment test. Exemptions depend on the way the completed coursework even compares to courses offered by CCD.
• Transcript reviews take up to 7-10 business days. Please plan accordingly.

Option 4. Twelfth Grade Equivalency Diploma

GED (Taken after 1, 2015), HiSET, and TASC transcripts can also be reviewed for exemptions and can be submitted online january.

The test that is minimum to show College Readiness are the following:

• GED | Reasoning through Language Arts: 165 | Mathematical Reasoning: 165
• HiSET | Language Arts Reading: 15 | Language Arts Writing: 15 | Math: 15
• TASC | Reading: 580 | Writing: 560 | Writing Essay: 6 | Math: 560

Option 5. College Ready Questionnaire

You may demonstrate you will be ready for college-level English through an English self-assessment questionnaire. Your responses is likely to be reviewed and you shall receive a message to your CCD email account aided by the most appropriate English and/or college composition for your needs. If the total outcomes of the survey are unclear or you usually do not agree with the outcomes of your placement, you may possibly choose to use the English placement test.

Students are automatically placed to the college-level math class for their math pathway with a support class. Should you intend to opt-out of this math support courses you can easily submit college transcripts or test scores to demonstrate college readiness. If you are unable to submit college meaningful link transcripts or test scores that demonstrate college readiness, you may choose to take the math placement test.

English as a Second Language (ESL)

CCD enrolls many students whose first language is not English. You may or may not need additional English as a Second Language (ESL) courses before pursuing your certificate or degree of choice (or if ESL courses are your only educational objective at CCD) if you would like to improve your English,. You ought to take the ESL assessment test in case the primary language is other than English. You may also speak to an ESL advisor when you have questions about ESL classes. Learn more about the ESL placement test.