Researcher: JC Page 1 3/14/24
OLR Bill Analysis
SB 109
AN ACT MODIFYING THE CONNECTICUT AUTOMATIC
ADMISSIONS PROGRAM.
SUMMARY
This bill requires higher education institutions participating in the
Connecticut Automatic Admissions Program to use a Board of Regents
for Higher Education (BOR)-established minimum grade point average
(GPA), rather than a BOR-established minimum class rank percentile, as
an academic threshold for admission. It correspondingly requires BOR
to set this GPA, rather than class rank, threshold and makes conforming
changes.
By law, the Connecticut Automatic Admissions Program is a BOR-
established program that requires participating higher education
institutions to automatically admit an applicant as a full-time, first-year
student to a Connecticut in-person’s bachelor’s degree program if he or
she meets certain eligibility requirements, which include meeting or
exceeding the established academic threshold.
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2024
COMMITTEE ACTION
Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee
Joint Favorable
Yea 22 Nay 0 (02/29/2024)