How are students placed on upper division campuses?
The campus and semester assignment process is a separate process, once the top 184 students have been identified based on their priority points, received their placement letters, and accepted their placement offer with a $200 deposit. Of those 184 students, many will have “special needs” to be on a particular campus. Those students will provide a letter of “special needs” by June 30th and documentation of the needs prior to August 1st of the summer they have accepted an upper division placement. The Special Needs Committee (made up of four members: 3 students and one faculty member) then meets to consider the student’s requests for being placed on a particular campus. When possible, the college makes every effort to place students on their first choice campus, but certain campuses have very small numbers of slots and are not able to accommodate all of the requests for that campus. Therefore, after the Special Needs Committee meeting, the priority points are adjusted based on additional