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University should be guaranteed admission as junior provided they
have completed an Associates Degree and fulfill all the necessary
criteria of the joint admissions program.
GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY
Georgian Court University will reserve a place for Union County
College students enrolled in the joint admissions program. The student
will be enrolled in a parallel program of choice and will be
accepted with full junior standing. The student must complete the
Associates Degree under which they were accepted at Union County
College and fulfill the criteria of the joint admissions program.
Union County College does not discriminate on the basis of race,
color, national origin, sex, marital status, religion, age, disability,
handicap, or other legally protected status in its provision of
employment, education, and activities, or other services.
Every year, Union County College students transfer credits to top
Every year, UCC students transfer credits to top
college and universities across the United States.
colleges The College and has universities transfer agreements across withthe overUnited 50 colleges States. and
The programs, College as has well as transfer Joint Admissions agreements andwith Dual over Degree 50 Programs colleges
and with NJIT programs, and Rutgers, as well The as College Joint Admissions of St. Elizabeth, and Georgian Dual Degree Court,
Programs Montclair with NJIT State, and Kean, Rutgers, FairleighGeorgian Dickinson, Court, Seton Hall, Montclair
State, Kean, and Fairleigh New Jersey Dickinson City Universities. and New Jersey City
Universities.
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C H O O S E
PLACEMENT TESTING
“The College Basic Skills Placement Test”
“The College Basic Skills Placement Test” covers basic preparation in
English and Mathematics and is used to determine whether students
are prepared for college-level course work. The results of the test
will not affect admission to the College, but may indicate the need
for required preparatory courses during the student’s first semester.
You must have a Test Permit Card from applying for Admissions to
enter the Test Session. After admission to the College and before
enrolling for classes, placement testing is mandatory to evaluate certain
academic skills. (Students whose native language is not English
must take an English for Speakers of Other Languages test in lieu of
the College Placement Test). This service assists the student in the
transition from high school to college. A major goal of this testing is
the recognition and remedy of weakness in reading, writing and
mathematics.
Union County College requires that the following students take the
test:
(A) Full-time and part-time freshmen entering Union County College.
(B) Students who have not already taken the test but who register for a
course that would result in the accumulation of 12 or more credits.
(C) Full-time and part-time transfer students who have received
Union County College transfer credit for one semester of college
English (for example, ENG 101) must take the reading part of the
College Placement Test unless there is evidence of college level
reading proficiency.
(D) All transfer students must demonstrate proficiency in basic skills
math through approved test scores or satisfactory completion of
developmental courses in arithmetic and elementary algebra to
receive exemption from the math part of the College Placement Test.
Students without math proficiency proof, but with transfer credit for
one semester of college English, must take the math part of the
College Placement Test. A student who has DECLARED a Union
County College program of study which requires the study of mathematics
for college credit (for example, Engineering, Business,
Biology), must have completed a college-level math course for
exemption from the math part of the College Placement Test.
(E) Starting in Fall 2009, any student who presents SAT (Scholastic
Achievement Test from the College Board) scores of at least 540 in
the Critical Reading and 530 in Math will be exempt from the CPT.
As the College Board recommends, the College will use the score
for writing separately. Developmental writing will be waived for
those who score 500 on the SAT writing after taking the college
placement testing.
However, the College may require additional categories of students
to be tested.
The college will deny registration to students who refuse to take
the placement test without an appropriate waiver.
Students whose test results show a need for special course work in
reading, writing and mathematics will be required to enroll in those
courses. Students whose English skills are weak because English is
not their native language are required to take English for Speakers of
other Languages training before they can be enrolled in credit or
non-credit bearing courses. When testing establishes the need for
such training, students must take the prescribed work before they
can be enrolled in credit work. The College reserves the right to
deny registration to such students if they refuse to follow these
requirements. Students who have taken an approved College
Placement Test within the last two years at another New Jersey institution
are required to present evidence of their scores, if they wish
to be exempted from testing. A retest in reading and math only is
available for students on a one-time basis if their score is close to
the proficiency standard.
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