College in the High School Admissions

Submit a free admissions application online. Make sure you select the College in the High School student type! Once submitted, it can take up to 10 business days to process your application.

Returning Student Note: If you participated in CiHS courses at SPSCC within the past year, you can skip this step! You already have an account with SPSCC.

Important Privacy Note: The application should be completed by the student, not a parent. Learn about Parent Access to Student Records on our Dual Credit Programs Parent Access & Grades page.

Students should use a personal or family email address. Please do not use your high school email address. The K-12 firewalls generally block incoming emails, and you may not receive admissions confirmation from SPSCC.

Admissions Application

Need help filling out the Admissions Application? View our College in the High School Admissions Application Guide or 12-minute video.

CiHS Admissions Guide

CiHS Admissions Video

Once your admissions application has been processed, you will get an email with your ctcLink ID. If it’s been more than 10 business days since you applied and you have not received your ctcLink ID, please email dualcredit@spscc.edu with your name, date of birth, and application number, and we will check on it for you!

Use your ctcLink ID to activate your two student accounts.

Make sure you think about your passphrase before you activate your accounts, following the rules below! We highly recommend you save your passphrase in a safe place for reference.

• A passphrase is an extended password with a 15-character minimum.
• Your passphrase will need to include a combination of uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and special characters.
• You cannot use your first or last name or email address in your passphrase.
• You can use the same passphrase for both of your accounts (ctcLink and ClipperID).

Activate Your Student Accounts

Some courses have a prerequisite you must meet before the academic year starts. Check out our Placement Guide for College in the High School to know what you need to submit or complete to be qualified for your classes. Submit documents to the Placement Request Form for evaluation.

When classes start in September, all students need to fill out a CiHS registration request form. The registration request opens in September each academic year for students. See the important dates above for specific deadlines. If you are taking more than one SPSCC CiHS course, you will fill out this form for each course you are enrolled in.

CiHS Registration Form

We will register you for any CiHS courses you have applied for and meet the prerequisite for.

Your high school instructor will receive a list of registered students. If you have not completed all the necessary steps by the registration deadline, you will not be enrolled for college credit. You will still receive high school credit for the class.

If you have questions about which courses to take, pathways, prerequisites, and credit transferability, please visit the Dual Credit Office at SPSCC or your high school counselor. You can reach the Dual Credit Office at dualcredit@spscc.edu. 

CiHS Drop Requests

The student, high school instructor, or high school CiHS coordinator can request a course drop through the CiHS Drop Request Form online. This must be completed by the drop deadline.

Exception to Drop

Students may request an exception to drop after the Census Day only when the circumstance for the request is one of the following:

• Student is moving and/or withdrawing from the high school.
• Student is suspended from the high school and not allowed access to the high school campus for more than two weeks.
• Circumstance is due to extended illness, death of an immediate family member, military service, hardship or when there is documented evidence of institutional error.
• Circumstance is due to a health pandemic or natural disaster forcing closure of the high school for more than two weeks.

If an exception to drop is approved, the student’s enrollment will be dropped and they will not receive a transcribed grade from SPSCC. The student’s high school transcript will be impacted based on the local high school policies for grades. 

As a CiHS student you have access to all the same resources and support that our regular college students do! All services and resources are FREE to you as a student and many can be accessed virtually as well as in person. You can use the Library Learning Support Centers (tutoring centers), meet with an Educational Planner and more. Check out all your resources on the Services & Support page.

Students have two accounts that they need to activate and use as a CiHS student.

ctcLink account:  Your ctcLink account is accessed by using an nine-digit number that is assigned to you when you apply to SPSCC or any community college in Washington state.  CiHS students use this account to look at their course history and unofficial transcript.  You can also update your email and mailing address from this account.

If you do not know your ctcLink ID number, you can email runningstart@spscc.edu and provide your first and last name, date of birth and name of the high school you attended (or are currently enrolled in).

If you need to reset your ctcLink password, you can do so by following the instructions on the Reset my ctcLink Password page. 

Clipper ID:  Your Clipper ID is your SPSCC email address.  CiHS students use their Clipper ID to take the SPSCC English Guided Self Placement and WAMAP math exams for placement in CiHS courses with English and Math prerequisites.

If you are unsure of your Clipper ID, you can email runningstart@spscc.edu and provide your first and last name, date of birth and name of the high school you attended (or are currently enrolled in).

If you need to recover your Clipper ID password, you can do so by entering in your Clipper ID on the Password Recovery page.  

Need more help?  Connect with the IT Services Help Desk

Students can access their unofficial transcript at any time after their first course is completed and graded at SPSCC. To get to your unofficial transcript, you will log into ctcLink. Unofficial transcripts are free and a great way to look at your CiHS course history.

In order to have official transcripts sent to other colleges and universities, military recruiters or employers, you will need to order your transcripts through the National Student Clearing house (NSC). Official transcripts cost money to send, so please wait until your final grades have posted for your last class(es) before ordering!

More information and links to log in for unofficial and official transcripts are available on the Transcripts page.

As a college student there are other important things to know about how your parents can access your records, services you have available to you and more!  Please check out the Dual Credit Programs FAQs & Records Information page for more detailed information.