Academic Fresh Start

Senate Bill 1321, passed by the Texas Legislature, permits Texas residents to seek admission to public institutions of higher education without consideration of courses taken ten or more years prior to enrollment. Students may not pick and choose what is to be ignored and what is not. Either all college courses ten or more years older are ignored, or they are all counted. Students who have earned three ormore college-level credit hours prior to Fall 1989, and subsequently completed a minimum of three credits of college-level coursework between the fall of 1989 and the fall of 2003, are exempt from the Texas Success Initiative regardless of whether they elect to take advantage of Academic Fresh Start.

• For courses taken at Ranger College for which Academic Fresh Start is applied, the official transcript will continue to show all courses taken. Grades and grade point will be shown; however, the credit hours attempted and cumulative grade points will total zero for the Academic Fresh Start Courses and will not reflect on the overall GPA. A notation will be placed on the transcript showing the semester that the student began to take courses under the Academic Fresh Start.
• All requests for Academic Fresh Start must be made in writing to the Registrar.