• Step #1 Apply for VA Benefit
• Step #2 Apply to  CCSF via CCC Apply website. Save Student ID and set up myRam Portal account , and student email (Gmail). 
• Step #3 Complete New Student Veteran Orientation (Online) 
• Step #4 Complete the Online Assessment Form to get Math and English Placement. This is not an actual test but a self-report form.
• Step #5 Fill out the Student Veteran Intake
• Step #6 Provide required Documents. (Click hyperlink respectively to upload file) 
  1. DD-214 (Member 4 Copy). 
  2. Certificate of Eligibility (COE) if using Post 9/11 GI Bill®, If using VR&E there is no COE, your Rehabilitation Counselor will send your authorization (VA Form 22-1905) to our School Certifying Officials and Bookstore.  
  3.  Official Transcripts from other Institution of Higher Learning must be submitted by the end of your 1^st semester at City. 
  4. Other Documents, to include Marriage Certificate or Birth Certificate if using Ch.35 DEA.  
• Step #7 Declare major at CCSF. Do this step in your RAM Portal before seeing a counselor. 
• Step #8 Develop an Education Plan with a Veterans Academic Counselor.  If Official Transcripts are submitted, you will get a full comprehensive education plan, if you have not submitted Official Transcripts, you will be give a shortened 1 semester Education Plan until the Official Transcript have been submitted. 
• Step #9 Register for Classes (Class Schedule, Registration Guide - PDF, Video). Only  classes on you educational plan developed by a Veterans Academic Counselor will be certified. 
• Step #10 Submit Certification Request Form (EVERY Semester)
  • If a student veteran using VA Educational Benefits adds or drops any class after they have been certified for the semester, the VA requires the      student to inform the School Certifying Officials. At CCSF student vet­erans do this by completing the: Change of Enrollment form found on at   www.ccsf.edu/veterans under the Certification Forms page.  

** Post-9/11 GI Bill® students attending IHL facilities who receive Monthly Housing Allowance (MHA) and/or kicker payments are required to verify enrollment at the end of each month.

** Not using VA education benefit but would like to get Priority Registration date, please complete steps 2,3,4,8 and provide DD214.

• Step #1 Update Education Plan with a Veterans Academic Counselor
• Step #2 Register for Classes (Class Schedule, Registration Guide - PDF, Video)
• Step #3 Submit Certification Request Form (EVERY Semester)

 * Post-9/11 GI Bill® students attending IHL facilities who receive Monthly Housing Allowance (MHA) and/or kicker payments are required to verify enrollment at the end of each month.

• Step #1 Reapply to CCSF 
• Step #2 Submit Official* Transcripts if you attended other college. 
• Step #3 Major can be declared or changed in your RAM Portal
• Step #4 Update Education Plan with a Veterans Academic Counselor
• Step #5 Register for Classes (Class Schedule, Registration Guide - PDF, Video)
• Step #6 Submit Certification Request Form (EVERY Semester)

 
*Please send official transcript to Admission and Record Transcript Department and request Domestic Transcript Evaluation
**Post-9/11 GI Bill® students attending IHL facilities who receive Monthly Housing Allowance (MHA) and/or kicker payments are required to verify enrollment at the end of each month