Roxbury Community College Acceptance Rate, GPA, and Admission Requirements

RCC's general admission is open, but the college explicitly designates its Nursing Program and Radiologic Technology Program as selective-admissions programs with additional application requirements layered on top of general acceptance. The Radiologic Technology program specifically requires attendance at an information session during the same academic year as application, completion of a college-level math prerequisite before applying, and the TEAS exam (which can be taken up to twice within a 12-month period, with scores valid for three years). A student who is generally admitted to RCC and assumes this guarantees a seat in Rad Tech or Nursing will be surprised to learn they must be separately selected into the program before registering for any Radiology/Allied Health (HLT) coursework. Applicants to these programs should attend the required information session and complete math and science prerequisites in their very first semester, treating the second application as the real admissions gate.

RCC participates in MassTransfer's Associate-to-Bachelor's (A2B) System-Wide and Campus-to-Campus Pathway maps, which guarantee full transfer of a minimum of 60 credits, no additional application fee, essay, or letters of recommendation, and - critically - guaranteed admission to a Massachusetts state university or UMass campus for students who complete an A2B-mapped pathway at RCC, plus eligibility for a 100% tuition waiver/credit at the receiving institution. This guarantee is voided if a student's target major requires a higher GPA, additional application elements like auditions or portfolios, or has restricted space - meaning a student should map their intended major and target four-year institution against the specific A2B pathway list before choosing coursework, not after. Because RCC's own AA degree (plus Criminal Justice) already embeds the MassTransfer General Education Foundation courses, students in those tracks are positioned automatically, but students in Associate in Science degrees outside the STEM Block (Biotechnology, Engineering, Mathematics) may need additional courses to qualify and should confirm this with Academic Advising early.

RCC launched a streamlined application process on January 30, 2026, replacing the prior MyRCC portal-based system; students who started but did not submit an application before that date must begin a new application through the current system rather than trying to complete an old, now-outdated application. Because search results, bookmarked links, and outdated guidance from counselors or family members who applied to RCC previously may point to the legacy MyRCC portal process, applicants should verify they are using the current streamlined application at the time they apply, and should not assume partial progress on an old application will carry over. This is a structural, date-specific change that generic admissions guides are unlikely to reflect accurately for at least another admissions cycle.

RCC and Boston Public Schools jointly earned a state Early College designation specifically for multilingual learners, a distinctive and narrowly targeted pathway that allows current BPS multilingual-learner students to begin earning college credit at RCC before high school graduation. This designation is easy to overlook because it is a joint BPS-RCC program rather than a generally advertised RCC admissions pathway, and it specifically serves a population (multilingual learners) that general Early College or dual-enrollment marketing does not always highlight. Current BPS students who are multilingual learners should ask their high school counselor directly about this specific designation rather than assuming standard dual-enrollment information covers it, since eligibility and enrollment mechanics run through the BPS partnership structure rather than RCC's general admissions office.