The MCC Admissions Office can accept anyone unless they don’t meet the minimum requirement on the ESOL/CELSA exam or if they don’t get a hold lifted for a disciplinary dismissal.  Financial aid & graduation eligibility is separate.

The high school transcript shows us if a student graduated, or is on track to graduate, from high school:

• We can accept anyone who is on track to graduate with a Local or Regents diploma, or has graduated with one, without having to set their status as “pending” for an admission interview (not needed for those with a GED/TASC diploma).
• If a student has any ESOL coursework on their high school transcript, then we have to set their status as “pending” and they’ll have to take an ESOL/CELSA exam and meet a minimum score (which can be found on our website) to be admitted.

IEPs are Individual Education Plans and if a student graduates with an IEP diploma, they may not be eligible for financial aid unless they pass our Ability to Benefit version (ATB) of the placement exam. Then they could be eligible for state aid, but not federal aid until they earn a GED/TASC diploma. This is assuming that they are also financially eligible for aid.

• Having an IEP plan in high school does not necessarily mean they’ll have an IEP diploma. They may have graduated with a Local or Regents diploma, which will admit them in the normal way.
• IEP diplomas can be listed as CDOS credentials now (a student can graduate with a Local or a Regents diploma and a CDOS credential, they would be fine for financial aid and graduation in that case).
• Admissions has a document that goes over the diploma/credential requirements for NYS. Contact us if you would like it.

Others that we need to have additional information for financial aid (and in some cases the student’s graduation from MCC) are:

• Students that graduated from a high school outside of the country
  • Can be eligible for Federal Aid, but for State Aid, they would have to pass the ATB exam*
  • Ok for graduation from MCC
• Students that were homeschooled, or at a high school not recognized by the state the student was in at time of completion, need to give us a Superintendent’s Letter showing that they received an equivalent high school diploma for financial aid and graduation.  If they can’t get a Superintendent’s Letter, then…
  • For federal aid, after a specific set of 24 credits at MCC, they can apply to the state, to have these credits translated into a GED/TASC diploma, and then they’ll be eligible for federal aid* (Admissions can get you the list of specific courses needed)
  • For state aid, they can be eligible if they pass the ATB exam*

*=if the student is financially eligible for Financial Aid

English Placement

The following link shows the placement testing guidelines for who can have English waived for placement purposes and who can be placed by Math due to their high school scores: http://www.monroecc.edu/fileadmin/SiteFiles/GeneralContent/depts/placementtesting/documents/Monroe_Community_College_Placement_Testing_Waiver_Criteria.pdf

• Admissions enters this information in the SOATEST screen in Internet Native Banner

Transfer Credit

• • There are students that earn credit through college courses taken somewhere other than MCC
    • If it was something they took in high school and it wasn’t through MCC, we would want the official college transcript sent to Admission to be evaluated for transfer credit
    • Some terms we see that we want to note to you are SUPA (Syracuse University college coursework) and Gemini courses (FLCC college coursework)
  • MCC college credit would already be in our system, no need to send a separate transcript

AP/IB Exam Scores

• • The A-Z Index will show what the student can earn for transfer credit for AP and/or IB Exam scores
    • We ask for the exam scores to be sent to us and this is often not on the high school transcript, though we can see that they took an AP and/or IB class
    • In the index, it would be under A for Advanced Placement and I for International Baccalaureate
• Transfer schools may have different criteria from MCC, best to be in touch with them on what will transfer
• Advising houses an entrance requirement booklet that both Admissions and Advisement utilizes
  • This is helpful for who is eligible to get into a program
• Pre-reqs for courses are often on high school transcripts, rather than in their MCC transcript
  • You need to make sure to have access to ImageNow in order to view high school transcripts; there is a specific training for this.
  • Since we really have 100 and 200 level courses, the high school pre-reqs come in handy and it’s vital to be checking out the high school transcript on a regular basis with students.