Request No. | 2022-10 |
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Date of Request | 06/08/2022 (Revised 07/01/2022) |
Requester | Olivia Alvarado - LACCD |
Application(s) | Standard |
Section / Page | Education and Residency Algorithm |
Advisory Group Review Date | TBD |
CCCTC Tickets | Zendesk #: 750400 |
Problems / Issues
Summary: California K-8 and 9-12 special admit (dual enrollment) students are getting incorrectly classified as B2 “possible resident” in the residency algorithm due to their response to an Education page question: Current or Last High School Attended. This is happening because there is not a clear response option (choice) for middle school (or lower grade) students when they get to that question; thus they either select one of the wrong options (which are inappropriate) or they abandon the process altogether due to lack of clarity.
The residency logic is flagging these K8 minor students because:
The applicant is under 19 as of the RDD (minor), and
Their “current or last high school attended” is not California (because the necessary data field is blank or null).
Area B Step 10: [RDD minus19 years > personal_info: birthdate AND education: hs_state != CA]
This situation has been a problem for several years and the CCCApply Advisory committee has made several attempts to put forward a viable solution. See 2018-26: Add Value to Last HS Attended in CCCApply and 2016-24: Middle School Students Classified as Non-residents Due to Last HS Attended
Below are three different scenarios with proposed options that could remedy this problem. The best option will require further scrutiny and may require additional change specifications.
Proposed Options
Option 1: Add a response option for “I attended a lower grade than high school” that triggers/displays the “HS Country” and “HS State” fields.
Outcome: This would provide a clear option for the K8 student and capture the “hs_state” value, which is required in the Area B logic.
Option 2: Add a response option for “I will be attending high school when I enroll in college”
Outcome: This will trigger the same fields as “I attended high school” and the college will capture upcoming high school information data, including the CDS and CEEB school codes for the high school they will be attending
Option 3: Add a response option to the “Current or Last High School Attended” question that reads, “I attended a lower grade than high school”; and update the Area B residency logic (step 10) to bypass this new response option if selected.
Outcome: This clarifies the options for the student, but does not collect any HS data information - exactly like the result if the student selected “I didn’t attend high school, adult school, and I wasn’t homeschooled”. Basically no previous school data is collected by the college.
NOTE: This solution would require a minor configuration change to Step 10 of Area B residency logic to bypass users that selected this new field response (“I attended a lower grade than high school”).
Additional Notes:
Special K12 Admits must select Enrollment Status = Y (Y = “enrolling in high school, or lower grade, and college at the same time). The majority of K12 special admits are “minors” (under age 19). Selecting this enrollment status value triggers the following conditional questions on the Education page:
If <enroll_status = Y> THEN the next question “High School Education Level” is required;
the <hs_edu_level> question defaults to “1 = enrolled in high school, or lower grade, and college at the same time” value, then the “Current or Last School Attended” question is required;
the <hs_attendance> question does not have a comparable response option, prompting students to either select
At this time, this is current behavior.