Admission of GVTC Students

The Georgia Virtual Technical College (GVTC) is a consortium of Georgia’s technical colleges providing occupational courses and programs, using a standardized curriculum delivered over the Internet and through local centers.

Its mission is to provide students with a central point of reference for programs offered electronically through its state system of technical colleges. GVTC provides the central point of contact for the student applying online by providing an online course catalog, an online orientation, answers to questions concerning the online process and facilitation of the online application to the requested college.

GVTC acts as a facilitator rather than a full functioning admissions department; application files, assessment testing, advisement and registration, financial aid, textbook orders, and awarding credentials are managed at the local colleges. GVTC’s function is to assist the student in locating the course(s) needed and to direct the application to the requested college.

The same policies and procedures that apply to the traditional student services process apply to the Georgia Virtual Technical College (GVTC) process. Each application is processed in a nondiscriminatory way for admission to any technical college with the Department of Technical and Adult Education.

GVTC acts as facilitator in assisting the colleges’ student services divisions in processing the online student. STC requests that students take transient courses at only one institution or in one quarter.

Admissions Procedures

1. Complete and submit the online application form to GVTC — www.gvtc.org.

2. Print the application, sign it, and mail to STC with a non-refundable $15 application fee.

3. Submit high school transcript.

4. Submit technical school, and/or college transcript.

5. Submit assessment test scores within the last five (5) years. These may be ASSET, SAT, ACT, or COMPASS. More information concerning the ASSET placement test can be found at http://www.act.org/asset/, as well as a sample exam.

6. For transient students only, present the appropriate transient correspondence to the host school.

7. Students must be sixteen (16) years of age or older.

Student’s Responsibilities

• If the student is a transient, it is the student’s responsibility to contact his/her advisor for permission to be a transient student before applying to GVTC.

• It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that they have access to a computer that meets the minimum hardware/software requirements to participate in an online course. Those requirements are listed on the GVTC website at http://www.gvtc.org/tech.asp.

• It is the student’s responsibility to purchase his/her textbooks or needed supplies. The course instructor can assist the student.

• A transient student must request that his/her grades be transferred back at the end of the quarter to the home college.