Scholastic And Personal
Requirements
For Regular Admission

For Middle Georgia College and the other units of the University System of Georgia, admission requirements are in a period of transition and standards printed here are subject to change without notice. Over the next four years, higher standards, particularly in the area of required minimum number of college preparatory courses taken while in high school, will be phased in. Therefore, any students who may wish to attend a public college or university in Georgia should enroll in a college preparatory track as early as possible in their high school career.

1.    The applicant must be of established good character. The college reserves the right to examine and investigate the character and personality of the applicant.

2.    Either the American College Test (ACT) or the College Board's Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) is required for admission to all programs of study, unless the student is specifically exempt. The college designates minimum requirements in determining who is eligible to apply for admission. Information about the SAT or the ACT may be obtained from high schools or from Middle Georgia College.

3.    Completion of all application forms and meeting all requirements contained therein are required of each applicant before a request for admission can be considered. Applications should be received at least twenty days prior to any registration period for which the applicant is seeking admission to the college.

4.    The college reserves the right to terminate receipt of application forms when enrollment limits are reached.

5.    The applicant must be a graduate of a high school accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) or equivalent regional accrediting commission or the Georgia Accrediting Commission (GAC) or the high school must be approved by Middle Georgia College. If the applicant is not a graduate of an approved high school, examinations (such as SATII subject tests) may be required. A non-traditional student, those who would have graduated from high school five or more years ago, may submit passing General Education Development (GED) test scores.

6.    Middle Georgia College reserves the right to reject the credits from any high school or other institution when it is determined that the quality of instruction available at such high school or institution is for any reason unsatisfactory.

7.    Required high school preparation for entrance to Associate of Arts or Associate of Science academic programs is determined by the College Preparatory Curriculum. The minimum high school preparation is listed below:

Additional courses selected from the following are recommended:

          Trigonometry
          Laboratory course in science
          A third course in a foreign language
          Fine Arts (art, dance, drama, music)
          Computer Technology
          Health and Physical Education
          Keyboarding

*Physics and chemistry are required for engineering students.
**Trigonometry also required for Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Mathematics, Applied Psychology, and Physics.

Middle Georgia College will admit a limited number of students who are missing up to 4 of the college preparatory course units listed above or who complete the requirements for an approved technical or career-preparatory high school diploma and who meet other defined standards. The "limited admission" students will be scheduled to take make-up courses designed to overcome college preparatory curriculum deficiencies. Such developmental courses will not count toward a degree.

8.    The applicant should have a predicted grade-point average (based upon high-school grades, SAT or ACT scores, and other pertinent data as determined by the Admissions Committee of Middle Georgia College) which indicates that the applicant has the potential to pursue effectively the educational program of the institution. In order to be considered a regular-admission student the applicant must have a minimum of a 1.80 high school grade-point average (on a 4.0 scale) on all academic courses, and a 330 verbal SAT score, and a 310 quantitative SAT score, and no deficiencies from the preceding list of required college preparatory courses. Comparable ACT scores, as determined by the University System of Georgia, may be used to meet the test score requirement.

9.    Students who, on the basis of their test scores and high-school records, do not appear to be adequately prepared may be admitted as students in the Learning Support/Developmental Studies program. Students who possess less than a 2.0 high school academic grade-point average or who score below 430 on the verbal or below 400 on the mathematics portion of the SAT (or comparable scores on the ACT) will take the Collegiate Placement Examination to determine whether Learning Support/Developmental Studies shall be required. (Students who are normally exempt may, at times, be given the Collegiate Placement Examination for research purposes only.)

Courses taken within the Learning Support/Developmental Studies Program are institutional credit courses and are not applicable to any degree program offered by the college.

10.    Applicants who have earned fewer than 30 transferable semester credit hours shall complete all the requirements for freshman admissions.

(Exceptions to the requirements for regular admission and provisions for admission to special categories of students are given elsewhere in this section.)

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