Can students use only one SDAIE or Sheltered English class for admission to the UC?
As a general rule, students can use only one year of UC-approved ELD/ESL/SDAIE or Sheltered English coursework to meet their 4-year English requirement for UC eligibility. This assumes that the course curriculum is different from the standard English curriculum. However, if a SDAIE or Sheltered English course is identical to a college prep English course, say English 10, then the SDAIE or Sheltered English course can and should be listed simply as an alternative transcript abbreviation (rather than a separate course) on the school’s course list. In this case there would be no limit. To make this example as concrete as possible, a student could take a UC-approved Advanced ELD course in 9th grade (that is, CELDT level 4 or 5) as her one year of allowable ESL/ELD/Sheltered/SDAIE coursework, then take Sheltered English 10 in 10th grade (as long as it is identical to the regular English 10 and simply listed as an alternative transcript abbreviation and not a different course) and then conti
