Hello this is my first post and I’ve been both interested and terrified by all the lurking I’ve done. My daughter is applying to Cal Poly in a few weeks as an incoming freshman. She has 11 CC classes. Most of them are pretty cut and dry and I can easily determine the A-G designation. There are 4 though that are ECE classes. She wants to teach preschool over the summer. Anyway, those don’t qualify for A-G, which is fine, that isn’t why she took them. I still want them to count towards her rigor. Do I add them and leave the A-G blank?
Are the community college classes on her CC transcript? Are they found on University of California A-G Course List ?
They are on her transcript and they are transferable to CSU, but they aren’t on the University A-G course list and we aren’t using them for A-G. She exceeds in all the categories without them. You need 12 ECE units to teach preschool where we are, so she took them for that. One of them, Child Development is on the list for G. The other three Child, Community and Socialization, Principles and Practices on Early Childhood Education and Creative Expression in Early Childhood Education aren’t. I wondering if I just put them in the college coursework section and then don’t assign them a A-G category?
I hope that someone else will chime in with advice. In the end I believe that you will get your best answer if you reach out to the Cal Poly admissions office in an email with your question. You may even want to share the name of the CC in the email.
My understanding is that all transferable CSU classes (I’m not sure about non-transferable courses, but you mentioned that they are transferable) on a CC transcript at the time of application should end up on your application to any CSU including Cal Poly. I suspect that their advice may be to classify them as “G-College-Preparatory Elective”.
All CC courses need to be reported under College course work especially if they are CSU transferable.
Based on my research, the ECE courses would be CSU transferable and the A-G category would be G (College Prep).
As noted by @Learnum, Cal Poly admissions will let you know how to categorize the courses and if there are issues, they will can recategorize the courses if needed.
Some CSU’s will calculate CC courses into the CSU GPA for admission and some do not. Since there is an 8 semester Honors point cap in the SLO GPA calculation, most students meet that cap just on HS courses.
Those courses may be used for HS course rigor but based on the historical MCA point calculation, electives (G) were not given bonus points. I have no idea if this has changed.
Electives (Area G): One year is required. Electives can be taken any year but must fall within the following subject areas: Visual and Performing Arts, History, Social Science, English, Advanced Mathematics, Science and languages other than English.
Page 34 of the guide explains A-G matching for College courses. https://www.calstate.edu/apply/freshman/Documents/cal-state-apply-freshman-application-guide.pdf
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Thank you!
She has plenty of rigor without them, they were just for the summer job she wants. They also align with her major. I was more worried about taking A-G credit for them if they didn’t qualify and looking like we were trying to pull a fast one.
I’ll email Cal Poly as well.
Thanks for your help!
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