Running Start at Central Washington University is very pleased to be partnering with your school to offer
this wonderful opportunity. Through our program, students are able to attend university level courses
and receive college credit without leaving their high school campus. This is achieved by your high school
administrators and teachers working closely with CWU faculty and staff to provide High School students
with the highest quality courses possible. However, there are a few things that parents should be aware
of before they decide to participate in this program.
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Every semester, your child will be able to take
one college level course for free through
Running Start or pay $55.00 per credit each
trimester/semester. You will be charged for
each additional course that you opt to take
during a given trimester/semester at a rate of
$55.00 per credit.
Students begin building an official college
transcript the moment that they begin taking
part in this program. Therefore, if a student
does well in their courses, they will build a
transcript with a healthy grade point average;
conversely, if they do poorly in their courses, it
will be reflected on their transcript.
It is important that students take these
courses seriously because building a low
college GPA now can cause many problems
when students begin their college life after
graduating from high school. In fact, it is
actually possible for students to begin their
freshmen year of college on academic
probation if they receive too many low CWU
course grades while in high school.
Once a grade is given it will not be changed
even if a student or parent is displeased with
it.
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When applying to universities, students are
required by law to submit all college grades
that a student has earned.
It is actually possible to receive a grade of 0.0
in a CWU course.
Your child’s college grade point average can
and likely will be different from their high
school grade point average.
Official university transcripts can only be
obtained from CWU’s Registrar Services.
Official transcripts will not be distributed by
your High School or the Running Start Office.
University deadlines for registration, dropping
a course, and withdrawing from a course are
nonnegotiable.
o If your child drops a course, you will
not have to pay for your course and
nothing will be put on your child’s
college transcript.
o If your child withdraws from a course,
you will still have to pay for the
course even if your child do not
complete it. Also if your child
withdraws from a course, a “W” will
be put on your transcript.
Once your child enrolls in one of our courses, they have the option of becoming conditionally admitted
to CWU. That means once they graduate from high school, they will not need to fill out a CWU
application, pay the application fee of $50, or pay a confirmation fee. All they will need to do is send
their high school transcripts and SAT/ACT scores to CWU and they are officially a new Central
Washington University Wildcat.