English Placement
College Readiness
First-year composition placement at Cal Poly is based on multiple measures of academic proficiency including high school English course grades, high school grade point averages, grades in collegiate courses, ACT scores, SAT scores, Advanced Placement scores, International Baccalaureate scores, SAT subject tests and Smarter Balanced Assessment/Early Assessment Program scores.
Any first-time, first-year student deemed not ready for college-level English coursework based on multiple pre-college measures will be required to enroll in the CSU Early Start English program and will be required to complete the English Department's first-year composition stretch program, which consists of two quarters of composition coursework taken as a cohort with the same instructor.