Eligibility for the two CCP pathways differs slightly. 

For the Career Technical Education (CTE) Pathway:

To be eligible to enroll, a student must:

1. Be a high school junior or senior; and
2. Have a weighted GPA of 3.0 on high school courses or have the principal’s recommendation

NOTE: Some CTE pathways require testing to be eligible for courses within the pathways.

For the College Transfer (CT) Pathway:

To be eligible to enroll, a student must:

1. Be a high school junior or senior; and
2. Have a weighted GPA of 3.0 on high school courses; and
3. Demonstrate college readiness (see below)

NOTE: Some courses in the CT pathways may require prerequisites to be eligible for a given course.

For continuation in the program:

To maintain eligibility for continued enrollment, a student must: 

1. Continue to progress toward high school graduation: and
2. Maintain a GPA of 2.0 in college coursework after completing two courses. 

College Readiness* Benchmarks on Approved Diagnostic Assessment Tests

In addition to the diagnostic assessments, colleges may use the following SAT and ACT scores recommended by the testing companies as benchmarks for college readiness:*

*To be eligible for enrollment in a College Transfer Pathway, students must demonstrate college readiness in English, reading, and mathematics on an approved test or tests.  Eligibility may be demonstrated by achieving the required scores on a single test or by combining test scores from any of the approved assessments. For example, a student may combine a 19 on PLAN math with an 86 and an 80 on Accuplacer sentence skills and reading to demonstrate college readiness.
**PLAN, Pre-ACTPSAT scores recommended by ACT and College Board as indicators of college readiness.
***The Reading and English part of the NC DAP is an integrated assessment of reading and English skills; meeting the composite cut score for placement into ENG 111 is one way to demonstrate college readiness in order to participate in the College Transfer Pathway.

Summary of PROPOSED eligibility changes
(effective Fall 2019)

• Transfer pathway students will have the option to qualify for the program with their unweighted high school GPA OR assessment scores from Attachment A (see Rise Draft Details below).
   
• Attachment A has been updated to include the new RISE placement scores, AP, 18, and Cambridge as new assessment options for entry into the program.
   
• Provisional entry into transfer pathways will no longer exist because the requirement for GPA and assessment scores will become an OR instead of AND. 
   
• CTE pathway students will have the option to qualify for the program with their unweighted high school GPA OR assessment scores from Attachment A (see Rise Draft Details below).
   
• Principals (or their designee) may still submit a waiver to allow a student entry into a CTE pathway. If a waiver is submitted, the principal (or their designee) will need to provide a rationale for why the GPA requirement was waived. CTE pathways that include UGETC 
   
• (Universal General Education Transfer Component) courses will not be eligible for the principal waiver/designee waiver for entry into the CCP program.
   
• CTP and CTE Pathway students who enroll in gateway English or math courses will have the option to enroll in the new English and math co-req courses once admitted, but they will not be required to do so (think of the co-requisites as optional gen ed). 

Download RISE Draft Details