Freshmen Admission (Never Attended College)

Admission Requirements

• Meet the minimum 2.00 GPA.
  • GGC recalculates GPA based on the grades in the 17 units of Required High School Curriculum (RHSC). See University System of Georgia freshman admissions requirements Staying on Course: The Required High School Curriculum (PDF).
  • Official high school transcripts may be sent electronically through GA Futures, Parchment/Credential Solutions or ScribOrder-Uconnect. Transcripts sealed in the high school's envelope may also be mailed or dropped off in person to Admissions Services, Building D (maps and directions).
• Demonstrate English language proficiency.
  • Applicants who are non-native speakers of English or who transfer from an institution outside of the U.S. where English was not the language of instruction are required to submit an approved English language proficiency test.
  • Other testing option: ACCUPLACER: minimum scores: Reading: 237 and WritePlacer: 4

Test Scores

• GGC is test-optional for admission to the college.
• Test scores may be required for scholarship consideration.
• Test scores are highly recommended for English and math course placement.
  • Students whose GGC recalculated GPA does not meet the minimum college-level English and/or math course placement criteria will automatically place into the corequisite learning support English and/or math course which will be taken along with the college-level course.
    • Submit official Next Generation ACCUPLACER, SAT or ACT scores to verify if eligible to opt out of the learning support English and/or math courses.
  • See course placement criteria, below, for more detailed information.

Document Requirements

United States high school

• Submit official transcript from a regionally accredited high school.
  • Current high school seniors may submit an in-progress transcript for admission decision.
  • Final high school transcript due immediately upon high school graduation.
  • Certificates of attendance or special education diplomas are not accepted.
  • Students graduating from a non-regionally accredited home school program or high school, please reference home school admission requirements.

State-issued high school equivalency diploma or certificate

• An official state-issued equivalency transcript is required for successful completion of the GED, TASC or HiSet test.
• Applicant is expected to be at least 18 years of age and for his or her high school class to have graduated.

Foreign high school credentials

• Submit an official document-by-document credential evaluation of high school transcript, including grade point average (GPA) from an approved member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation. Services (NACES) or InCred to demonstrate U.S. high school graduation equivalency. Note: Do not send foreign transcripts to Georgia Gwinnett College Admissions Services. These documents should be sent to the evaluation service.
• If you were recruited as a varsity intercollegiate student athlete to participate in GGC's athletic program, please submit an InCred credential evaluation of your foreign credentials. For more information, please email @email.

Additional information

• All required documents to determine admission eligibility must be received by Admissions Services no later than the established admission deadline for the semester.
• For course placement purposes, there is a limit of two Next Generation ACCUPLACER exam (WritePlacer, Reading Comprehension and Math (Quantitative Reasoning, Algebra and Statistics (QAS)) attempts per academic year.

Check your Grizzly Profile under "Submit Supplemental Items" for any additional mandatory requirements and a detailed description of how to submit your documents.