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PSEO
The Post-Secondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) is a state program for juniors and seniors in public or non-public high school or home school program that gives you an opportunity to complete your high school requirements by taking non-sectarian courses at a participating college or university. (Taken from the Minnesota Children Families and Learning PSEO brochure)
Students may participate in the Northwestern College PSEO program through the Distance Education. This program has helped thousands of students get a jump start on college careers while earning high school credit. It allows them to apply college credits to their high school diplomas. Distance Education allows students the flexibility of scheduling study times around their other activities. Taking courses through Distance Education is the only way to participate in Northwestern College's PSEO program at this time.
As a PSEO student, you not only receive college credit, but high school credit at the same time. Plus, the tuition, books, and registrations fees are paid for by the State of Minnesota.
PSEO QUALIFICATIONS
- High school juniors must rank in the upper 1/3 of their class
- High school seniors must rank in the upper 1/2 of their class
- All students must have a GPA of 2.0, ACT score of 18, SAT score of 580, or standardized test score of 50% or better
- All students must maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher to stay in the program
- All students must have completed a standardized test (10th grade state, PSAT, PLAN, ACT/SAT, or Accuplacer) within one year of application
State Approved PSEO Courses
Steps to Enrollment
Students can take advantage of the tuition benefit by enrolling in these courses for the fall and spring semesters. You must apply for each semester.
We are still accepting applications until August 15th for the Fall 2009 semester. Please send in ALL of your application materials to allow sufficient time to complete the application process and to have textbooks delivered before the course starts.
The requirements for missionary students have changed. Students must physically reside in the state of Minnesota and may not do PSEO from overseas.
- Print and complete the PSEO Registration and State Notice of Registration Form. At this time, you cannot register for PSEO courses online.
- Attention home schoolers: Please be sure to complete Part 2 of the State Notice of Student Registration form. We still need the name, type and number of your school district, as well as a signature of the "Secondary School Contact Person" (aka, your parents).
- Submit a copy of your standardized test scores (10th grade state, PLAN, PSAT, ACT, SAT, or Accuplacer) to Distance Education.
- Submit an official high school transcript to Distance Education
If you want to take PSEO courses during the summer semester, or you want to take non-PSEO courses (such as Bible) anytime, enroll in our NextStep program! You can still earn both high school and college credit, but the State of Minnesota does not fund the NextStep program.
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