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UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSION PROCESS AND REQUIREMENTS

The following criteria are used to determine admission for various categories of students including First-Time Freshman, Home-School, Readmit, Transfer, Degree Completion, Unclassified, and International Students. Certain programs have additional specific criteria for admission. Refer to the respective section in this catalog for any additional requirements.

New First-Time Freshmen

First-Time Freshmen must meet one of the following requirements:

• Completion of high school diploma.**
• Completion of General Educational Development (GED) and be 18 years of age or older to meet the compulsory school attendance requirement in South Dakota.

First-Time Freshmen who have completed (1) will be admitted to the college when meeting one of the following requirements: 

•   A student having a minimum high school cumulative GPA of 2.75 out of a 4.0 GPA.
•   A student having a minimum ACT composite score of 20 out of 36.
•   A student having a minimum SAT composite score of 1040 out of 1600.

First-Time Freshmen who have completed (2) will be admitted to the college when meeting the following requirements: 

•   A student having a minimum cumulative GED score of 450.

First-Time Freshmen must follow these steps to complete the process:

• Submit an application for admission found at https://mypc.presentation.edu/applynow/inquiryform
• If the student is still attending high school, the transcript must include courses completed and courses in progress. Students must also arrange for a final transcript to be sent after graduation from high school with the graduation date posted.
• Submit the non-refundable application fee of $25

*Options for official transcript submission:

• Paper transcripts can be accepted as official provided they are either mailed or personally delivered to the Admissions Office in the original, sealed envelope from the school.
• Electronic transcripts can be accepted as official provided they are emailed directly from the school or are submitted via an electronic transcript service to the Admissions Office via the domain @presentation.edu

All records submitted, filed, and accumulated in the Admissions and Registrar's Offices become the property of the College.

Upon receipt of these items, the Admissions Office will notify applicants of acceptance, provisional acceptance, probationary acceptance, or denial of acceptance into the College.

**The Admissions department may review the transcript for validity at its discretion. The Admissions department will consult with the Department of Education website for that particular state to ensure that the student graduated from an accredited high school.

Home-Schooled Students

Home-Schooled Students must meet one of the following requirements:

Home-Schooled Students who have completed (1) will be admitted to the college when meeting one of the following requirements: 

Home-Schooled Students who have completed (2) will be admitted to the college when meeting the following requirements: 

Home-Schooled Students must follow these steps to complete the process:

• Transcript can be requested from the local home schooling guild or association school. If not available, primary educator-prepared transcripts, which detail course descriptions, proficiency levels, and textbooks used, are acceptable. If the student is still attending high school, the transcript must include courses completed and courses in progress. Students must also arrange for a final transcript to be sent after graduation from high school with the graduation date posted.

**The Admissions department may review the transcript for validity at their discretion. The Admissions department will consult with the Department of Education website for that particular state to ensure that the student graduated from an accredited high school.

Readmit Students

Readmit Students must meet the following requirement:

• Readmit students are subject to entrance requirements and major requirements as stated in the College Catalog in service at the time of reentry. Students who graduate from Presentation College with a prior degree or certificate and reenter the following semester are also required to reapply for admission to the College.

Readmit Students must follow these steps to complete the process:

• Submit any official* college or university transcripts since last admission, whether or not credit was received. Readmit Students must have a minimum cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 2.00 on a 4.00 scale from their previous Presentation College transcript.
• Submit the non-refundable application fee of $25.
• Other requirements, if applicable.

Transfer Students

Transfer Students must meet the following requirement:

• If a transfer student does not have 24 or more college credits they will be admitted as a first-time freshman, but have transfer status.

Transfer Students must follow these steps to complete the process:

• Submit all official* college or university transcripts. Transfer Students must have a minimum cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 2.00 on a 4.00 scale once all transcripts are received.

If students are currently enrolled at another institution, partial transcripts may be submitted and considered for provisional admission until the final official transcripts arrive. Please contact the Admissions Office regarding transcript evaluations. All credits attempted (except remedial courses) will be calculated into the admission GPA.

Degree Completion Students

Degree Completion Students must meet the following requirement:

• Have completed an Associate’s degree or higher, and seeking to enter a baccalaureate program at Presentation College.

Degree Completion Students must follow these steps to complete the process:

Unclassified Students

Students who wish to enroll without pursuing a program or degree from Presentation College are considered unclassified. The Registrar will advise and register unclassified students. A maximum of 6 credit hours per semester is permitted on a space available basis with a total maximum of 12 credit hours taken as an unclassified student while at Presentation College. Courses taken by unclassified students may include general or select department coursework. Unclassified students do not qualify for federal, state, or institutional financial aid.

If unclassified students later wish to become degree-seeking, the entire College admission process must be completed.

International Students

Presentation College invites and encourages international students to apply for admission. The College is authorized under Federal law to enroll non-immigrant alien students.

First Time Freshmen International applicants must provide the Admissions Office with the following:

1. Proof of High school diploma and high school transcript. International high school (secondary) transcripts can be evaluated internally by Presentation College, or externally by an accredited evaluation service. Transcripts must be submitted in the original language and translated into English if sent directly to the admissions office. Presentation College reserves the right to require a third-party agency to evaluate the transcript. High School Transcripts must have a minimum 2.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale.

2.   A completed application form due by July 1 for fall semester; November 1 for spring semester.

3.  Non-refundable application fee of $25.

4.   Meet minimum English proficiency standards. Methods for demonstrating minimum English proficiency standards are listed below.

5.  Completed Declaration of Finances form and an official bank statement.

6.  Photocopy of current passport and photocopy of F-1 VISA once obtained.

Co llege or University Transfer* International applicants must provide the Admissions Office with the following:

1.  Submit an application for admission found at www.presentation.edu/admission/apply/

2.  Submit all official* college or university transcripts. Transfer Students must have a minimum cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 2.00 on a 4.00 scale once all transcripts are received.

3.  Submit the non-refundable application fee of $25

4. Meet minimum English Proficiency standards. Methods for demonstrating minimum English proficiency standards are listed below.

5. Completed Declaration of Finances form and an official bank statement.

6. Photocopy of current passport and photocopy of F-1 VISA once obtained.

*To be considered for admission to PC as an international transfer student, a minimum of 24 completed semester credits at a cumulative 2.00 grade point average (GPA), on a 4.00 scale. Applicants who have postsecondary transcripts from an international institution and request consideration of credits earned for acceptance to Presentation College must submit the transcripts to a translation company in the United States for an academic evaluation. The cost of the evaluation is the responsibility of the student. An evaluation is subject to policies as printed in this catalog.

Declaration of Finances and Bank Statement

Since financial assistance for international students is extremely limited, applicants must demonstrate evidence of ability to meet the costs of the chosen program by completing a Declaration of Finances form. Students will be required to utilize their home banking institution to certify available funding. Once adequate financial resources are confirmed, an application is completed, and all other requirements are on file, applicants will be considered for admission. If accepted, an official I-20 form will be sent to the student. Arrangements for obtaining a VISA may then be made by the accepted student at the American Embassy or Consulate in the student's home country.

All required application materials must be received by July 15 for fall semester and November 15 for spring semester.

IMPORTANT: All fees, deposits, tuition, housing charges, etc., are payable in U.S. funds.

Non-Resident Alien and ESL Students

Non-resident alien students or students whose native language is not English must provide the Admissions Office with the following:

1.  A completed application form

2.  Non-refundable application fee of $25

3.   Meet minimum English proficiency standards. Methods for demonstrating minimum English proficiency standards are listed below.

4.   Students who have completed high school in the United States must meet the minimum ACT or SAT exam requirements.

English Proficiency Standards

There are two ways to meet Presentation College’s English language proficiency requirement:

Presentation College accepts scores from the following exams. Scores must be sent directly to Presentation College from the testing agency in order to be counted as official. Score reports can be sent electronically or by postal mail to the Admissions Office. Scores must be less than two years old to be considered for admissions.

TOEFL score (Test of English as a Foreign Language): 65 web-based, 525 paper and pencil ( PC's TOEFL code: 6582)

IELTS International English Language Testing System: 5.5

Pearson PTE Academic: 46

SAT: 490 Evidenced-Based Reading and Writing sub score

ACT: 18 English sub score

• Language Waivers:

There are several ways to qualify for a waiver. Students will not need to provide an exam score if they meet any of the following criteria:

• Waiver Option A – If the student has attended a U.S. high school or an international high school that is regionally accredited in the United States for two or more years
• Waiver Option B – If the student has an associate of arts or sciences degree or a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited university with a cumulative 2.00 GPA
• Waiver Option C – If the student has attended a U.S. regionally accredited college or university, has completed the transferable equivalents of PC’s English Composition 113 with a 2.00 or above grade point average for each course at the time of application, and has 24 semester college level admission credits completed by the beginning of classes for the term they are applying
• Waiver Option D – If the student has taken the ACCUPLACER and received the minimum score requirement for PC’s English Composition 113
• Waiver Option E – If the student is a citizen from one of the following countries AND their primary language is English: Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize,  British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cook Islands, Dominica, Fiji, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana,  Ireland, Jamaica, Kiribati, Liberia, Malta, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Montserrat, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Singapore, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uganda, United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland), Zambia, or Zimbabwe (provide proof of citizenship to have waiver applied)
• Wavier Option F – If the student was schooled outside the United States at a school where the language of instruction was English (student must provide an official letter from the school stating English was the language of instruction while they attended)
• Waiver Option G – If none of the above waivers apply, and the student was unable to take the ACT, SAT, TOEFL, IELTS, or Pearson PTE Academic due to temporary test restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a committee will speak with the student on the phone and ask a series of questions, gathering English Proficiency skills based on a phone interview.

A $100 tuition deposit is required prior to registration for classes. The deposit is non-refundable.

Application Fee Waivers

This option is available for any student applying to Presentation College that has their $25 application fee waived. Fee waiver codes may be given to students and used for the purposes of student recruitment at the discretion of the Director of Admissions.

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By Brother JM Feheney

I first arrived in Presentation College, Chaguanas (PCC), in 1959, more than sixty years ago. The great Vidya Naipaul had just published his famous novel, The Suffrage of Elvira, the previous year.

The London publisher, Andre Deutsch, had taken a chance on it and it became the first of several cooperative publishing ventures with Naipaul. While it is generally agreed that Naipaul’s Elvira was a humorous satire on politics in Trinidad at the time, this is not to deny that there were several facets of the book that could be helpful and informative to a newcomer to Chaguanas in the pre-independent Trinidad and Tobago of 1959.

So, I read and reread The Suffrage of Elvira. And I learned quite a bit of about the historical, social, and political background of the families of many of the pupils who were later my students and whom I learned to know and appreciate. If there was one word that characterised the young student of PCC at that time, it was the word potential.

It was evident all over the place. I encountered it every day and the life-long adventure of developing this God-given potential has given me lasting pleasure and has forged links of friendship with some wonderful people whom I first met as students some 60 years ago.

I have always felt that the educational institution now known as PCC, Trinidad, has been inspirational both in concept and in practice. Starting as Pamphylian High School, a private secondary school in 1941 under the management of Rev Max Murphy, Parish Priest of Chaguanas, it evolved into the College of Saints Philip and James, which was recognised as an Assisted Secondary School in 1949, and then into Presentation College, Chaguanas, in a new green field site in 1962.

When I arrived there in 1959, not only did the majority of the boys belong to the Hindu faith, but most of the religious denominations in Trinidad and Tobago were represented among the student population.

Moreover, the students were valued for what they were as people rather than for the religion to which they belonged. And, indeed, the same could be said about the teachers, of whom I have fond and hallowed memories.

The attitude of the Presentation Brothers, supported by that of the Catholic hierarchy at the time, was that PCC was erected and existed primarily for

Catholic boys but, depending on accommodation, boys of any or all religions were also welcome.

To us, education of its very nature was a spiritual activity, and I was never as happy as when I was engaged in it. All knowledge is potentially good knowledge. All knowledge tells us something about God and His wonderful creation, nature. So, I was equally happy with chemistry, botany, and theology.

The playing fields are one of the great glories of PCC. I have wonderful memories of watching the swallows gathering there for bi-annual migration and resting on the goal posts and the wire fences, in between gorging on the copious supply of insects which the damp savannah grass supplied.

Then there were the flocks of white egret birds which also gathered to feed on the insect life provided by the rich carpet of grass. But above all, there was no better place from where to watch a good game of cricket than the first-floor veranda of the Presentation Brothers house.

It was from here that Brother Cyril O’Sullivan, sometimes joined by Wes Hall, scrutinised the young cricketers of Trinidad, whom they were coaching in the 1960s.

Some of the young players they observed were Larry Gomes, Dudnath Ramkissoon and Rangy Nanan, at the same time making notes about how the competence and skills of these youths could be improved in preparation for international matches.

Before I leave T&T college cricket, I must mention what may have been PCC’s most famous cricket outing ever. This was April 21, 1970 when college teams from PCC and St Mary’s (CIC) met at the Queen’s Park Oval to determine the Colleges’ Cricket Senior Championship.

CIC won the toss and put up a respectable score in the first innings, but then PCC began batting and Dudnath Ramkissoon began to display his range of batting skills.

But while Dudnath was in full flight, the game was suddenly and (at the time) unaccountably halted. Later, we learned from the BBC Overseas broadcast that, overnight a small but determined section of the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment had mutinied in Chaguaramas.

A State of Emergency was proclaimed by the Government and an SOS was sent out to bring all children home immediately. So, all cricket equipment was hurriedly packed-up and we got on the road to Chaguanas.

The religious congregations deserve both credit and recognition for setting up a well-distributed series of wonderful secondary schools over the course of the past century.

Some wise and perceptive government ministers have noted this and welcomed the ideal opportunity which the T&T Government then had to add to the already existing second-level schools, thereby ensuring that every section of the country was educationally well provisioned.

The concept of community is a valuable one which must be nurtured. All schools make their contribution to the larger community, and we must always remember that God also is with, or in, if you wish, the larger community, no less than small splinters of it.

I have attempted to emphasise this in my book, Catholic Education in Trinidad and Tobago. The Twentieth Century (Cork: Iverus, 2010), which, unfortunately, is now out of print.

To some extent, success in education is a bit like success in prayer. Jesus does say, “Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you…”! (Mt 7:7)

But it is not enough to say this once. We must keep at it, even make a practice of repeating it. Similarly, in education, while desire to learn is the first step, maintaining and renewing this desire daily is also essential.

Moreover, this particular saying of Jesus is also borne out in the example of a good teacher and a good school. In all teaching, ultimate success comes from perseverance. So do not forget: ‘Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you…’ (provided that you make this sentiment a lasting habit, rather than a last-minute futile thought).

The Presentation Family is a concept from which the Presentation Brothers increasingly draw inspiration in these times. The concept suggests that, in addition to a physical entity or tightly knit group of individuals, who, like me, are vowed members of a religious order or congregation, there are also a whole lot of other people who either work with the core organisation or somehow come under its influence.

This extended group of people obviously include relatives, teachers, students, helpers, and benefactors of the core vowed group. That is why in our religious community in Cork, we continually pray for members of the ‘Presentation Family’.

It is an attempt on our part to acknowledge the presence of communities of real people, like those at PCC and Presentation College, San Fernando (PCS Trinidad).

We acknowledge not merely their presence and contribution, but also the kindness and generosity of this disparate group of people to our religious congregation.

We remind ourselves that they are our real brothers and sisters. Moreover, it’s also an acknowledgement of not only the values we share but also the joys and sorrows we both shared in the past.

That is why places like PCC and PCS are second homes to me. The kindness of many of my friends there tug at the heartstrings and draws an occasional tear.

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The brother jerome foundation.

The Presentation College Past Students Association (PCPSA) established the Brother Jerome Foundation, as a non-profit company limited by guarantee, under The Companies Act, 1995. The major objective of the Foundation is ‘to provide financial and other assistance to needy secondary school students and to make contributions to capital projects in the College’. It is intended that the Foundation remain under the direction of the Presentation College Past Students Association.

The Foundation has, over the years, provided much-needed assistance to several students of the College with the purchase of books, uniforms, shoes, glasses as well as dental work and travelling money. The Foundation has, also, made significant contributions towards several capital projects, including the audio-visual systems, classroom air-conditioning, the College Bus and, most recently, the Union Hall Redevelopment Project The Foundation gets its funding from the generous contributions of individuals and corporate organisations. The major fundraiser for the Foundation is the Annual Awards and Dinner at which we honour our Past Student of the Year.

The PCPSA is of the view that prominent past students of sound character and impeccable integrity should serve as Directors of the Foundation. This, the Association believes, will greatly facilitate the fund-raising capability of the Foundation and thereby enable the Foundation to better execute its charitable objectives.

The current members of the Board of Directors of the Foundation are as follows:

Mr. Joel Edwards (Chairman), Mr. Imtiaz Ahamad (Vice-Chairman), Mr. Anthony Sookdeo, (Treasurer), Mr. Ryan Chaitram (Secretary) and Directors Justice Nolan Bereaux, Steven Samlalsingh, Dwight Mahabir, Paul Traboulay, Nigel Romano, Craig Branker and Dexter Mitchell.

The Foundation is keenly aware of the high degree of need that exists among some of the students of Presentation College, San Fernando and the other schools throughout Trinidad and Tobago and expects that the Brother Jerome Foundation will be a major weapon in addressing these needs.

The Board of Directors of the Foundation has been meeting regularly and has established several Committees through which the work of the Foundation will be executed. The Foundation will soon be embarking on a major fundraising campaign; the intention is to raise a significant sum of money which will be invested, with the interest being used to fund the needs of the Foundation while keeping the capital sum intact.

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