Apply to Running Start

Apply Online to get your Student ID (SID) number. You will receive an email with your SID number after your application is processed, within 3-5 business days.

Set up your spscc email account, the email we use to communicate with you and your login to the college network.
Need help? Call 360-596-5544.

To be eligible for Running Start, you must place into or have completed English 101. This can be done in several ways, like taking the College Placement Test at our Assessment Center). See the Running Start Placement Guide for more information.

Meet with your high school counselor to discuss graduation requirements for your high school, then choose how many classes you will complete at high school and at SPSCC. You can look at available classes in the Class Schedule. There is a 15-credit limit to the number of courses you can be enrolled in between high school and SPSCC with full tuition coverage. If you wish to take more credits, you will pay full tuition for the additional credits. See the Running Start Enrollment Verification Form for the funding table and use it to meet with your high school counselor.  

Before your first day of class at SPSCC, you must attend an On-campus Info Session.

As a new SPSCC student, you must also attend New Student Advising & Registration (NSAR) to register for classes in-person. Bring a photo ID, your list of required graduation course equivalencies, and your completed Running Start Enrollment Verification form with you so we can adjust your tuition and fee costs in the session.

If you don't bring the form to NSAR, you will have to register as a full tuition paying student.  Tuition is not due at the NSAR unless the tuition due date is passed. Any tuition payment made after the tuition due date will be refunded 100% if you turn in your Running Start Enrollment Verification form by the fifth day of the quarter.  Deliver the form to the One Stop or the Advising Center in Building 22 or email it to advising@spscc.edu.

Fees and the costs of books and supplies are not covered through the Running Start program.  Fees are due by the tuition due date each quarter. Students with a qualifying financial need may submit for the Fee Waiver & Book Loan program.

Tuition for credits within the funding limits will be paid for you through the Running Start program.  If you take classes under the 100 level or over the credit distribution maximums, you must pay tuition for those credits. If at any time during the quarter you change your credit distributions you may owe additional tuition to the college.