High School Preparation
Many universities now require or strongly recommend that students complete certain units of high school work as background for college-level work. While San Jacinto College does not specify that students complete particular high school courses to be admitted here, the college strives to match the standards in our university-parallel courses to those of the universities where our students transfer. If students have not completed certain basic high school courses, they may have difficulty meeting the standards of university-parallel courses. San Jacinto College may counsel these students to take lower-level courses (particularly in English and mathematics) if the students' placement test scores reveal weaknesses.
Most colleges and universities require these basic units of high-school study for admission:
- English, four years
- Algebra, two years
- Geometry, one year
- Laboratory Science, two years
- Foreign language, two years
