UNDERGRADUATE
ADMISSIONS ASSISTANCE
FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
Fall 2008 and Spring 2009
STUDENTS WITH
DISABILITIES NEED TO APPLY FOR ADMISSION TO THE UNIVERSITY USING THE
STANDARD ADMISSIONS PROCESS.
The admissions requirements
for freshmen and transfer students can be found online at: http://www.sfsu.edu/prospect/.
If your disability has prevented you from meeting any requirements and
you believe you are an “otherwise qualified applicant,” you may be eligible to request alternative admissions assistance from
the Disability Programs and Resource Center (DPRC). On a case-by-case
basis , the DPRC examines an applicant’s documentation and
academic record to determine whether or not to support a recommendation
for alternative admissions. IMPORTANT NOTE: Not all deficiencies can be supported.
STEPS
TO APPLY FOR ALTERNATIVE ADMISSIONS ASSISTANCE FROM THE DPRC
- Apply to the University online at http://www.sfsu.edu/prospect/.
If you need assistance with the application process, please call us at 415/338-2472 V/TTY to set up an Application Assistance Appointment. You must bring any unofficial transcript(s) to that appointment for us to be able to assist you with the CSU Mentor on-line application.
All undergraduate admissions applications must be submitted by:
Spring 2009 – Admission applications will be accepted from August 1-31, 2008
- Submit/request to send official transcript(s) to the Admissions Office immediately after you apply for admission.
You must follow up and verify that your official transcript(s) were received by SFSU. Please check your online application status weekly to verify that all paperwork requested by SF State's Admissions department was received: https://www.sfsu.edu/online/appstat.htm.
IMPORTANT NOTE: We cannot offer Alternative Admissions Assistance to prospective students who DO NOT complete a University Admissions application and submit all official transcripts to the Admissions office prior to the DPRC deadline. Do NOT follow Admission’s Department transcript deadline.
- Submit the following
information below to the DPRC:
a. DPRC registration form:
b. Full documentation of your disability per the DPRC guidelines (contact
the DPRC at 415/338-2472 v/tty for registration form and disability
guidelines)
c. Unofficial transcript(s) from previous school(s)* (official
transcript(s) submitted to the Admissions Office are NOT
available to the DPRC)
d. Letter of support from a counselor or disability specialist following
the guidelines stated below.
All DPRC documentation in number 3 above, must be received at the DPRC by the following dates for paperwork to be processed:
Spring 2009 applicants – deadline is Wednesday, October 1, 2008
We cannot process your Alternative Admissions Assistance request for prospective
students who have NOT completed an Admissions application and submitted
all official transcripts to the Admissions office.
*If you are an upper division transfer student who cannot meet the
University’s quantitative reasoning requirement, you must provide
a transcript showing that you attempted appropriate math classes at
least twice in the proper sequence (e.g. pre-algebra, beginning
algebra, etc.) and that you used disability accommodations on at
least one attempt. Exceptions to these criteria may be considered
on a case-by-case basis.
Documentation will not be processed until all of the above steps
have been completed. Once we have all of the above information, have
received confirmation from Admissions of any deficiencies and if deemed
necessary interviewed you by phone or in person, we will notify you
of our decision to support/not support your admission by exception.
Guidelines for
Counselor/Disability Specialist
Letter of Support For
Alternative Admissions Assistance
At San Francisco State University
An admissions support
letter from a counselor or disability specialist with whom the student
has recently worked is an important part of the process of evaluating
a request for alternative admissions assistance.
The support letter
must contain the following information:
- A detailed description
of the specific way in which the student’s disability prevented
him/her from completing the requirement; general statements are not
sufficient.
- Detailed information
about the attempts the student has made to meet the requirement, including
accommodations and services used. If accommodations and services were
not used, please explain.
- An explanation
of how the student can be successful in a degree program at SFSU even
though he/she has not completed the requirement. Information about other
areas of academic success and discussion of how the admissions deficiency
will or will not impact the student in his/her major are helpful here.
(Please note that the University is not required to alter academic
requirements that are essential to the major being pursued.)
Completion of your
application for alternative admissions assistance does not
automatically result in a DPRC recommendation for admissions. Decisions
to recommend admission are made on a case-by-case basis.
All the above DPRC documentation must be submitted to the
Disability Programs & Resource Center (1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco,
CA 94132-4046) by Wednesday, October 1, 2008 for the Spring 2009 semester. For
further information please contact Deidre Defreese at (415) 338-6356
or defreese@sfsu.edu.
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