<p>oh thank god. more waiting! hopefully this email will just say spring if you're offered it... i'm probably going to check my email on my phone during my break between my 2 ap's that day....but i'm on the east coast so it probably wont email that early in the day.</p>
<p>Technically an Articulation Agreement is a contract between SC and a student spelling out what a student needs to do/get to gain admission. For instance...IF you get an A average, with transferable credits from an agreed upon university THEN SC will admit you for spring. IF you don't but have a 3.0 average, or better, from an agreed upon school THEN SC will admit you as a sophomore. It is an individual contract, worked out with Admissions, for students who were close to getting in, but for reasons they didn't. There is not guess work here...you keep in touch with your Admissions person from SC, sending updates...and then as the student fufills their contract, SC admits you.</p>
<p>This is NOT a one size fits all agreement. I imagine that there might be an instance where the agreement might say, for instance, a 3,7 and you're in as a sophomore. There are no additional applications, SC knows who you are...You may have to be admitted undeclared and then transfer into your desired major. But the school that you attend first does NOT have to be a community college, the school just has to be approved.</p>
<p>ellebud- I suggest you speak to your regional counselor so that they can explain to you, straight from the source, what an articulation agreement is.
It will save you all a lot of heartbreak to research and understand the language of the articulation agreement. It's clear you haven't even looked at one since they do not sitpulate admission is guaranteed is you have A's in any given combination of courses. 4.0's have been turned down in many cases for failure to understand the supplemental applications due at respective professional schools.</p>
<p>You are right in this aspect: you do not have to be a community college student to fall underneath an articulation agreement.</p>
<p>For those of you who will be attending a community college next year: YOU MUST FULFILL THE FOLLOWING REQUIREMENTS (w/ the highest grades possible) to be in a good position to be admitted...
FIND YOUR ARTICULATION AGREEMENT HERE:
USC</a> ARR : Articulation</p>
<p>Sorry Woman of Troy...My daughter had one...and that was EXACTLY what it said.</p>
<p>You mean the minimum requirements for admission?</p>
<p>-Intem. Algebra
-English
etc.,?</p>
<p>No. The Admissions Counselor that was assigned to our daughter gave her the list of courses that she could select at another university that could (a)transfer credit to SC and (b)be academically demanding so that she could demonstrate her academic prowess. This had nothing to do with high school work. After she selected her courses our daughter received approval from SC for her courseload at another university. She sent in her mid semester grades, her grades just prior to finals (signed by her professors) and was then admitted pending her final grades for that semester. An Articulation Agreement spells out, when done with the counselor, what has to be done to come to SC.</p>
<p>Admissions counselor, ad com...I used the term interchangably. SC may have changed their policy this year, but this is what was done several years ago.</p>
<p>Yes, it's a very good outline of what courses transfers should be taking in order to be competitive. I presume your D also had very good stats and wasn't admitted merely BECAUSE she took those classes. Congrats. :)</p>
<p>Yes, she had excellent stats. Her high school counselor didn't do his job (per a counselor at SC) and that was the reason that she wasn't accepted in the first place. (Other child had a different counselor, but we didn't really consult her). Absolutely, an applicant with a 2.5 wouldn't have been given this type of agreement, as an example. And she LOVES SC...</p>
<p>since usc is private, there is not a certain number amount of units that are required to transfer, or so i read. But if you transfer is 30 or more units, then your high school records are discarded, or they won't be used, only only community college work. I remember seeing the articulate agreement for UCs schools and USC and if i remember correctly USC had an easier path? like you only had to take one english class or something compared to the two for the UC, this was a couple years ago so things might have changed.</p>
<p>I'm glad. :) I love it there already I just need to get admitted first! lol.</p>
<p>The articulation agreements are now available to any student that is thinking about transferring but are not binding was what I was trying to say.</p>
<p>none of this has to do with people appealing this year...</p>
<p>wow like 4 days left... scary</p>