BronxScience College Now at Hunter College

Erlyn Mendez

Coordinator of College Now

emmendez@hunter.cuny.edu

212-772-4486

¨ College Now Spring and Summer 2017

information

¨ Eligibility

¨ Application Process

¨ Waiver Classes

¨ Transcripts

¨ Epidemiology

¨ Chemistry Lecture and Lab

¨ Physics Lecture and Lab

¨ Geology

¨ Statistics

¨ The program will tentatively begin on July 12

@ 9:30am. The first

week is orientation week. Students will be participating in team-

building activities in the morning, have lunch from 11 to 12pm,

and then participate in more orientation activities. It is absolutely

mandatory that students attend that first day! NO EXCEPTIONS!

¨ Summer Enrichment Activities (SEA) and credit classes begin on

July 17

and end August 17

. There will be no SEA on August 16

because students will have their final that day, unless the

professors say otherwise.

¨ SEA will be from 9:30-10:50am, lunch 11-12pm, credit classes from

12:00pm to either 1:50pm (Statistics, Epidemiology, & Geology) or

3:50pm (Chemistry & Physics)

¨ Eligibility will depend on the class. We will use the same score reports: Regents,

PSATs, or SATs

¨ For Epidemiology, Chemistry and Physics, students will need 80 or better on

BOTH ELA and MATH Regents OR 500 or better on BOTH Verbal and Math PSAT

OR 500 or better on BOTH Verbal and Math SAT.

¨ For Chemistry & Physics, ideally we are looking for students with NO advanced

background in the subject.

¨ For Statistics, students will only qualify with an 80 or better on a Math Regents OR

500 or better on Math SAT (No PSAT) AND have to take a placement exam upon

acceptance.

¨ For Geology, students will only need one of the above Verbal scores.

¨ Students must have at least an 80 GPA (75-80 will qualify for waitlist)

¨ All students must submit a HS transcript, even if they are using their PSATs or

SATs to get in.

¨ Students who fall below the requirements by 5 or less points on the Regents or 50

points or less on the PSAT/SAT will be waitlisted but are still encouraged to apply.

If they fall below that, they will not qualify for the program.

¨ Our Summer program is highly competitive. We only have about 100 seats in our

program so there is a possibility that students who apply will be waitlisted or even

denied due to lack of space. However we always encourage students to apply.

May 5th Application Deadline

May 19th Notification emails sent

June 2nd Deadline for students to

RSVP; Drop those who

don’t RSVP by today!

July 12th Summer program starts

August 17th Summer program ends

¨ Anthropology

¨ Computer Science (Saturday class)

¨ English

¨ Epidemiology

¨ Geography (Saturday class)

¨ Classical Mythology

¨ Math

¨ Media (Saturday class)

¨ Music (Saturday class)

¨ Philosophy

¨ Psychology (Saturday class & M/W section)

¨ Sociology

¨ Theatre (Saturday class)

¨ Dance (Saturday class)

¨ Spring semester begins Monday, January 30

and ends Friday, May 26

(after their final)

¨ Every course will meet twice a week from 4:10-

5:25 or once a week on Saturdays

¨ Some will meet on a M,W schedule, others on a

T,Th schedule

¨ Students need to show us proof of only one of the following score

reports: Regents , PSATs or SATs

¨ All students need to submit their HS transcript, PSAT and/or SAT

scores and parent consent form.

¨ For Math, students need at least an 80 on the math Regents OR at

least 500 on the Math SAT (NO PSAT).

¨ For all other courses, students need at least an 80 on the ELA Regents

OR at least 500 on PSAT Critical Reading OR at least 500 on the SAT

Critical Reading. Exception: ENGL120 will not use PSAT, only

Regents & SAT.

¨ Exceptions: Epidemiology and Computer Science require BOTH

verbal and math scores.

¨ Requirements to be waitlisted: If students are close with a 75 or a 450,

we will still consider the applicant as a waist list

¨ GPA Requirement: Students will have to have a GPA of 80 or more to

eligible to apply to our College Now program. If a student has a GPA

between 75-79, they can still apply as they would be on the waitlist

range.

December 9

Application Deadline

December 22

Notification emails sent

January 6

Deadline for students to

RSVP : Very Strict DL

January 21

Orientation categorized by

class (Times TBD);students

will be emailed details upon

acceptance

January 30

Semester begins (Monday)

¨ Preference is given to partner high schools. Every student

who attends one of our partner schools whose application

we receive by the deadline and meets our requirements has

the same chances of getting in. (NO FIRST COME FIRST

SERVE)

¨ Students should only put down courses they are willing to

take

¨ We will fill courses with the most diverse ratio we can in

terms of the partner high schools that we work with

¨ All students who apply will hear back from us via email

regarding their status.

¨ All students apply online. More information can be found

on our website: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/college-

now/.

¨ Waiver classes are courses outside the College

Now course offerings and are taken alongside

Hunter College undergraduates

¨ In order to apply for waiver courses, students

have to have at least be enrolled in a College

Now course

¨ We will only have about 15 seats per semester

and only offer this opportunity during the Fall

and Spring.

¨ Mandatory Waiver information sessions for the

Fall 2017 semester will be held sometime in

April.

¨ Unofficial Transcripts—students have to create

a CUNY first account in order to view. This is

helpful when students are applying to colleges

and need to send an unofficial transcript

¨ Official transcripts—must be requested from

Registrar’s office, 217HN. Fee is $7 for each

transcript to be sent to the school of their

choice. Additional $2 for processing online.

http://registrar.hunter.cuny.edu/forms/trans

cript.html

¨ It is free to send transcripts from CUNY to

CUNY

¨ Letter grades of a C or above is passing for College

Now

¨ A grade can only be changed by the professor

¨ Grades are sent to high school liaisons, but we do not

send grades or transcripts to the students. At the end

of the semester, they will receive an email with

instructions on claiming their CUNYfirst account so

that they can get their grade and transcript.

¨ Grades are ONLY released to students!