I was under the impression that the A.A-T History guaranteed admission into any CAL State. Meaning it meet the history requirements needed to get in.
Now it is saying I needed 2 additional Western Civilization courses too under major requirements?
Or is that only if you don’t have an A.A-T?
Why wouldn’t they have considered this when accepting us months ago? Before we turned in our decisions to all our other colleges?
This is devastating. His counselor at Comm. College knew he was going to cal poly. Why would there be a transfer AA-T for that purpose?
Any chance they’ll let me take in summer online somewhere?
A couple of points - the AAT is relatively new so, there’s not a lot of systemic knowledge about it - which could be wht you received incorrect advice. . It is said to ‘guarantee’ admission to A CSU, not ANY CSU. There simply aren’t enough spots at popular schools (like SLO) for that to be feasible.
Second, provisional admission says essentially, if you take these classes and earn these grades, you have a spot. It sounds like he changed his schedule after submitting his application and didn’t tell SLO - not meeting the commitment. Summer classes may do it but, you’ll have to contact SLO directly for advice - every case is a little different.
He didn’t change any classes. His reported classes on initial application which included 3 semesters of classes, are exactly as shown on transcript. The remaining semester was added to supplemental application by January 15th. By then it clearly didn’t show the Western Civilization courses they wanted. It does show History of World Civilization. But this is populated I think, but it was entered exactly as on transcript. Not one change. So by Jan. 13th his spring classes were showing in progress. And it took them til may 25th to notify us this wasn’t what they wanted?
We’re filing an appeal. We’ve been in touch with admissions director. Nowhere does it state that Western Civilization is requirement for admission. But “required to be competitive in the selection process”.
I realize A A-T doesn’t get you into any CSU but it guarantees it meets the requirements for history at all csu’s. So once we were accepted, why would not assume the classes entered into applications met their requirements for admission since it says they are Objective in their selection process. The process is some schools will overlook reqs and you can take them when we get there… Or actually what I thought was history of world Civilizations was acceptable as an equivacal substitution, since the selection process would have raised a flag if not? I mean he took 7 history courses. If he had taken 2 more he would have had 69 credits… And had to go another semester
Assuming you can document your submissions and their response, It sounds like you may have a good case for an appeal - but, SLO was heavily over-subscribed last year, saw a 10% spike in aps this year and, my understanding is, they have space for less than 900 transfers this year. My guess is they are unapologetically swamped in the admission office. I will be intersted to hear how your appeal goes.
Good luck.
Thank you, I was told they will be looking into it right away due to the circumstances. I can document with application we have on file, but we already had a spot, reserved housing and paid deposit and declined all my other colleges, and passing up $50,000 in other school scholarships already!