Straight to the Workforce

Admissions Requirements

To be admitted as a concurrently enrolled student at Rose State College you must be able to satisfy all 15 curricular requirements for graduation no later than the spring semester of your senior year and meet one of the requirements listed below:

Accredited High School Juniors and Seniors

• The SAT score is 990
• The PSAT score is 990
• GPA is 3.0
• National ACT is 19

All concurrent students must complete an online application, submit a concurrent enrollment form and official transcript to the Academic Outreach Office in the Learning Resources Center in Room 204. A high school student may enroll in a combined number of high school and college courses per semester not to exceed a full-time college workload of 19 semester credit hours. For purposes of calculating workload, one-half high
school unit shall be equivalent to three semester credit hours of college work.

Also, concurrent students may not enroll in remedial (zero-level) course work offered by colleges and universities designed to remove high school deficiencies.

Home Study or Unaccredited High School Juniors and Seniors

Homeschooled students and students from unaccredited high schools shall have completed enough high school course work to be equivalent to an individual who is classified as a junior or senior at an accredited high school and meet the applicable criterion below.

• The SAT score is 990
• The PSAT score is 990
• GPA is 3.0
• National ACT is 19

Course Placement for All Concurrent Students

At minimum, concurrent students shall demonstrate college readiness in a particular subject area to be eligible to enroll in a college-level course in the corresponding subject area. A high school student not demonstrating college readiness in science reasoning, mathematics or English will not be permitted enrollment in the corresponding college subject area. A student who is unable to demonstrate college readiness in reading will not be permitted enrollment in any other collegiate course (outside the subjects of science, mathematics and English). Concurrent enrollment students are prohibited from enrolling in any form of developmental education, including any configuration in which developmental education is embedded within a
credit-bearing course. A concurrent student will be eligible to enroll based on the criteria detailed in the PDF chart below.