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If you are a high school student interested in obtaining college credits before graduation, the Post-Secondary Enrollment Option (PSEO) program might be for you. (Please note that some academic programs at Southern State require high school graduation or completion of the GED and may exclude entrance under the PSEO).

In most cases, though, admission is based on the high school grade of the applicant. Here's what to do:

• Submit a completed PSEO application to the Records Office by the deadline listed below:

  Fall 2011 - July 1, 2011
  
  Winter 2012 - November 15, 2011
  
  Spring 2012 - February 15, 2012

• Provide official high school transcripts that reflect the required cumulative grade point average (GPA) for the following grade levels:

3.75 Freshmen
3.50 Sophomores
3.0 Juniors and Seniors

• Junior and senior students must provide documentation that all parts of the Ohio Graduation Test (OGT) have been successfully passed. Freshman and sophomore students will have their OGT scores reviewed at the end of their sophomore year. Students must have successfully completed all parts of the OGT to continue in the PSEO Program if this is required for graduation by their school district.
  
  
• PSEO students will be contacted to schedule a time to take the Southern State placement assessment after we receive their PSEO application. A student must qualify for ENGL 101 or MATH 117, and may take the assessment only one time per academic year.
  
  
• All PSEO applicants will receive notification of acceptance or denial in writing.

All PSEO applicants must:

• Have an ACT English score of 18 or math score of 22.
  
  
• Reflect a level of personal and social maturity which would make it possible for the student to adapt to a college level environment.
  
  

Other PSEO Guidelines to consider:

Students should see the Director of Admissions or a campus advisor prior to registration each quarter.

Students are permitted to participate in the PSEO program during the fall, winter, and spring quarters.

Students enrolling in the program will be required to perform at the same level as regular students. Post Secondary students are subject to the same policies and procedures, academic practices, and grading standards as all other Southern State Community College students.

Students enrolled at SSCC under the PSEO program are not permitted to repeat courses and have those courses subsidized through the PSEO program without written consent from the student's local school district designee. It is the responsibility of the student not to attempt this repetition. Payment for such repetition will not be presented to the state for reimbursement and could ultimately become the student's financial responsibility (depending on the student's local school district policy). Consent letters from the district should be directed to the SSCC Business Office at 100 Hobart Dr., Hillsboro, OH, 45133.

Students may not enroll in any specific college course through the PSEO program if the student has taken high school courses in the same subject area as the college course and has failed to attain a cumulative GPA of of 3.0 or above on a 4.0 scale, or equivalent in such completed high school courses. It is the student's responsibility not to register for courses in which this guideline has not been met.

Parents of students under 18 years of age need to be aware that all SSCC computers have free, unfettered access to the internet. Southern State Community College computers do not use any type of filtering software.

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) applies to education records at all levels of education. At the point of becoming a Southern State student, FERPA rights become those of the student. Without written consent from the student, a dependent student's information cannot be disclosed even to the parent. However, under the rules of Post-Secondary Enrollment Option, the College reserves the right to communicate student record information with appropriate official(s) of the home high school. Information will not be released to parents without signed authorization from the student.

Post Secondary Enrollment Options will not fund remedial courses (ENGL 100 or MATH 106).

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