SP 01-52 - Policy on Special Admissions (Formerly “SR 3-02”)

POLICY ON SPECIAL ADMISSIONS

1. Upper division transfer students who have documented disabilities and request exceptions to the quantitative reasoning requirement for admission must demonstrate that they have a documented disability related to being successful in mathematics and that they have made a reasonable attempt to pass GE mathematics or prerequisite courses and have not been able to pass them, even with accommodations. If these two conditions are met, then students can substitute the following community college courses or their CAN philosophy 6 equivalent for the quantitative reasoning admission requirement.

2. Students must take the Elementary Level Mathematics examination. If they do not pass it, they may apply for a waiver of ELM or intermediate algebra as prerequisites for general education courses at CSUCI.
3. Substitution of a course for the purposes of admission does not imply that these courses satisfy area B3 of the CSUCI general education requirements. Courses accepted under this policy also cannot be double counted for more than one General Education Program category, e.g., a course accepted as satisfying B3 cannot be accepted as satisfying A3 as well.
4. If students are unable to take the acceptable substitutes at the community college, the students will have one year to fulfill the quantitative reasoning admission requirement once they are on campus at CSUCI.
5. When a situation arises where a student does not meet the policy above, then the Director of Admission and the Office of Disability Accommodation will confer with the academic coordinator in the student’s major and the faculty member responsible for the course substitution to determine acceptable options.
6. Students who are granted a course substitution under this policy will be given advisement regarding appropriate majors.
7. Annually the Office of Admissions and Records will report to the Academic Senate the· numbers of students requesting Special Admissions and the reasons for the requests.