Barton County Community College (Barton Community College) Acceptance Rate, GPA, and Admission Requirements

Barton's automatic merit scholarship (Barton Bound) has four GPA-or-ACT tiers: Elite (3.5 GPA or 26 ACT) covers full tuition and books; Excellence (3.0?3.49 GPA or 24?25 ACT) pays $1,000; Honor (2.50?2.99 GPA or 22?23 ACT) pays $800; Achievement (2.00?2.49 GPA or 20?21 ACT) pays $500. It's open only to first-time Kansas residents who graduated a Kansas high school the prior academic year, requires full-time (12-credit) enrollment, and renews automatically for six semesters. Submit both GPA and an ACT score if you have one close to a tier line - Barton awards whichever number lands the higher tier - and file the Barton Bound application in the MyBarton Scholarship Manager by August 1 (January 1 for December graduates); it is a separate step from general admission and is easy to miss since Barton's open-admission process makes it feel like there's nothing left to apply for.

Barton is an approved Kansas Promise Act institution: eligible programs (Practical/Registered Nursing, Medical Assistant, Medical Coding, CNA, Welding Technology, Computer Science, Networking Specialist, Early Childhood Education, Pharmacy Technician, Phlebotomy, Paramedic, Plumbing, Carpentry, and others) become effectively free - Promise covers tuition, fees, and books after other aid is applied. In exchange, the student signs a binding agreement to live and work in Kansas for two consecutive years after finishing, and must complete the program within 36 months or repay the award plus interest. The application is filed directly through the Kansas Board of Regents portal, not through Barton, and awards are first-come, first-served - funds have historically been exhausted before the posted deadline, so eligible students should apply the day the term's window opens rather than waiting for the March 1 cutoff.

Barton operates dedicated satellite campus portals for Ft. Riley, Ft. Leavenworth, and Grandview Plaza, separate from the main Great Bend admissions site. Advisors at these locations specialize in evaluating Joint Services Transcripts (JST) for credit and in building course schedules around deployment cycles, Tuition Assistance, and GI Bill disbursement timing in ways the general campus advising office isn't set up to do. Active-duty students, veterans, and military spouses should apply and register through fr.bartonccc.edu or fl.bartonccc.edu directly to get matched with an advisor who handles military paperwork routinely, rather than defaulting to the general application portal and getting a generalist advisor.

Barton's Foundation offers over 150 separate scholarships through a single application in the MyBarton Scholarship Manager, and the college states every enrolled student is eligible to be matched to at least one. Note: Barton's own published priority deadlines have been inconsistent across recent cycles - some official pages cite a June 1 priority date, others (in past-cycle news releases) cite March 15 with a final deadline of August 31 - so don't rely on a single cached deadline; call the Foundation office or check the current Scholarship Manager listing directly before assuming which date applies to your enrollment year.