Academic / College Counseling
- Academic Advisement
- College/Career Planning
- Social/Emotional Support
- Graduation Requirements
- A-G Requirements
- Credit Recovery Options
- Alternative Education Referrals
- Post-Secondary Planning
ACS GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS
AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOL GRADUATION AND UC & CSU A-G ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS
Colleges recognize a C or higher as a passing grade. UC DO NOT recognize grade improvement on a C or higher grade. A grade of D will earn credits toward high school graduation but WILL NOT meet the requirements for college admission. The UC’s and CSU’s “weight” only specific underlined courses on Ambassador’s school’s UC Accredited Course List. Visit https://doorways.ucop.edu/list/site where “weighted” classes are starred. For more detailed information on admission to UC: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions. For more detailed information on admission to CSU: www.csumentor.edu/planning/high_school
For further information, please visit the following online resources:
- A-G Course Lists (search by high school) – https://doorways.ucop.edu/list/
- California Colleges – http://www.californiacolleges.edu/
- The University of California A-G Guide – http://www.ucop.edu/a-gGuide/
Meet The Counselor

Scholarships Links
Important links:
One of the best, most comprehensive free online scholarship searches available to students, parents, and educators.
College Answer
Sponsored by Sallie Mae, they use the Scholarship Experts data base.
College Board Scholarship Search
Utilizes a database of more than 2,300 sources of college funding totaling almost $3 billion in scholarships and aid.
College Data
This free scholarship search allows students to save results in a data locker.
CollegeFunds
Helps you hunt down the most ideal student loan, scholarships and other financial aid resources available
College Connection Scholarships
This service provides free scholarship searches and personalized scholarship application letters.
College Tool Kit
Search for scholarships by geography, heritage, religion, extra curricular, family affiliation, high school or scholarship name.
eCampus Tours
Uses a database of more than 10,000 scholarship programs that distribute awards worth more than $36 million.
Financial Aid Officer
This free scholarship search engine lists scholarships worth $1.45 billion.
FastAid
The World's largest and oldest private sector scholarship database
Fast Web
Large database of free scholarships
Go College
This search encompasses 800,000 individual awards worth over $2.8 billion in scholarships
The Scholarship Page
Started by a student in 1997
Scholarships
Scholarship database of 3,0000 sources worth up to $3 billion
Scholarships Canada
Canada's most comprehensive scholarship portal
Can Learn
Another Canadian free scholarship search site
School Soup
Scholarship data base lists $32 billion in scholarships
Study Abroad Funding
Our comprehensive database of study abroad scholarships, fellowships, and grants can help make your dream of studying abroad a financial possibility and a profound reality. Scholarship searches can be conducted by country or subject.
International Education Financial Aid
College scholarship and grant information for US and international students wishing to study abroad
Gates Millennium Scholars Program
A billion-dollar grant from the pockets of Bill and Melinda Gates supports the higher educational needs of high-achieving minorities
Educational Excellence for Hispanics
To help Hispanic students and their families navigate the college process
Financial Aid
College Board 2016-17 Financial Aid Checklist & Worksheet
Form Your Future: How to Fill out the FAFSA Guide
FASFA FAQs
Q: What do I need to do to get financial aid?
A: You can fill out a free application through The US Department of Education. The application is for federal and state student financial aid. After filing the FAFSA, students should establish a WebGrants for Students (WGS) account. Using WGS, students can see their Cal Grant application status, confirm and update their postal and email addresses, provide the required high school graduation confirmation once they graduate, and can change their college of attendance.
Q: How can I get help filling out the FAFSA application?
A: Each year we have a financial aid officer from one of the local colleges come to do a presentation on how to fill out the FAFSA form. The presenter will go through the FAFSA line-by-line and will answer any questions you may have.
Q: The UCs might pay for your fees if your family income falls below a certain level. What does your income have to be and what else does it cover?
A: The UC Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan will cover educational and student services fees if you are a California resident whose family earns less than $80,000 per year and you qualify for financial aid. Blue and Gold students with sufficient financial need can qualify for even more grant aid to help reduce the cost of attending college.
Q: I didn't get a lot of financial aid from my college. How else can I get money?
A: Scholarships and grants!
Californiacolleges.edu Resources
California's official source for college and career planning, CaliforniaColleges.edu is a one-stop informational resource for students considering their post-secondary options.
Students can create individual profiles on the site, where they can store information relevant to each step in their own personal college and career planning process (which colleges match their criteria, offer the major they are looking for, etc.), as well as portfolio documents like letters of recommendation, resumés, and commendations or awards.
Tools on this site allow students to:
- Explore potential careers
- Search for colleges
- Create a college financing plan
- Log community service, work, and extracurricular experiences
- Launch and track applications to both the California State University and California Community Colleges
- Students save careers, majors, and colleges of interest in their "My Plan" portfolio.
- Tools on this site allow educators to:
- Review individual students' activities and plans
- Manage student accounts
- Report on students' activities in the aggregate
- Send messages, create events and assign tasks for individual or groups of students
- Click on the LOCK icon in the upper right-hand corner of the homepage.
- Click on Register Account.
- Complete registration.
- Create a password.
Students will need to provide the following information:
- Name of the district (Redondo Beach Unified)
- Name of school
- Student ID #
- First and last name
- Date of birth
- district email address
12th Grade Resources