Poor SAT or ACT Results? You Can Still Go to College!

How Texas Community Colleges Offer an Alternative

For teenagers who are not accepted into a four year university in Texas, there are feasible educational options within the community college and junior college systems of Texas. For many parents, when faced with a teenager who does not show promising results on the SAT or ACT, the hopes of college attendance are often overshadowed by these less than perfect test results. As parents, and graduating high school seniors, when facing this situation, consider the option of attention a two year university in Texas.

Community colleges in Texas offer high school students, with poor SAT and ACT scores, an opportunity to obtain college credit, even an Associates degree, with few requirements in the admissions processing. To apply for admission to a two year university in Texas, a Texas resident high school student should complete an application, online for a nominal fee, and submit high school transcripts. The application to most colleges in Texas can be completed through www.applytexas.org.

With the high school transcript, the two year university will usually request the high school student submit SAT or ACT scores along with the high school transcript. As a general rule, the high school graduating senior will not be denied admissions to the university, even with poor SAT or ACT scores. In fact, most two year universities offer Texas high school students the opportunity to take academic placement tests known as Accuplacer or THEA, using these test results to best gauge the academic performance of a student.