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Do any of you suplement your homeschool high school with community college courses that satisfy the high school degree requirement AND count as college credit toward a college degree?
How do you apply to the CC? Are you a high school student seeking college admissions? Or, are you registering as a college student, but applying coursework toward a HS degree?
What courses did you take through the CC?
Thank you for any help.
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We did this on a limited scale and it was a great experience. Our CC has a dual-credit program (an official one, developed with the county school system) and so we applied through that program. My son took two U.S. history courses.
This fall he'll be a degree-seeking student there - we just dropped by the admissions office and changed him from "dual-credit" to "degree-seeking" status.
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Our CC will admit/enroll high school students 16 years and older for up to 6 credits a semester. The trade-off is that one semester at the CC can count for 1 full year credit of high school. I enter these on the child's transcript (which comes from our umbrella group/official reviewer, with major input from the parents) as an AP course. The advising office at the CC has a counselor who takes care of the high schoolers as well as doing other counseling for the CC. When the student applies to college, either to continue at the CC or to go somewhere else, they include an official transcript from the CC with their application. The CC counts the credits as part of the student's degree requirements. If your child attends a different college, the college decides whether they accept the credits, just as happens in a transfer situation. Usually if the college has a course that *matches up* with what the student took at the CC, they give credit for it.
So, that's been our family's experience. 
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I did this last spring for my ds, then in 11th grade. our local cc will accept students 16 and up for dual-credit and the tuition is half-price too until they reach 12 credits.
I had him take English 101, thinking that having an outside teacher would motivate him to work harder than he had been for me, but she was pretty lenient in the beginning and he ended up doing less work than ever, but ended up with a C. Since this will count for college credit as well as hs, I decided not to have him do anymore until he can prove to me that he's going to work harder.
Cc's usually accept all students regardless of previous grades or SAT, etc but then do their own placement testing to see if they need remedial classes. Be aware that if your child tests into a remedial level, he will not receive college credit for that, although you could still count it as high school credit.
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Kathy, take a look at the recent thread about CollegePlus. It is another way to earn college credit. Someone there also referenced this resource which is free for preparing for Clep tests.
Also, in that thread there is a great explanation of why we may not want our innocent children in a community college classroom. If you think about it, a lot of the students are not the cream of the crop graduates from the public school system. Of course, there will be plenty of students who aren't a problem, but how many does it take? Court says you can get around this by taking evening classes which are mostly adults.
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Two years ago we entered the Community College era. It has been an excellent experience for my dd. Not only did she get free college credit during the summer, she eventually went full time on an honor's scholarship and all of her credits will transfer to ASU in the fall as an incoming sophomore. She graduated from the Honor's program, was the vice-president of Phi Beta Kappa, and traveled to present her honor's project. The academics were sound (sans 1 class that was full of liberal hooey but was a learning in its own way,) made good friends, spoke up for her values, and was very well-received.
She took courses to fulfill requirements for the AGEC. On her transcript from our home high school program, I listed the CC classes and designated them as being taken at the CC. She also had a separate transcript from the school. Yes, these classes served double-duty.
I'm sure this all varies by state and county, so do contact the CC in your area. Be ready to politely plow past the front desk ladies there until you get to someone who knows the options for homeschooled students .
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Thank you for all your help. I am looking for aids for my 11th grader (she will be 17 next month). She attended a private Catholic school in 9th grade and she homeschooled with the tutor program, Classical Conversations, in the 10th grade. The CC campus is one hour away and I was looking for alternatives.
I've pretty much decided to enroll her in CC for Chemistry, Advanced Mathmatics and Latin II. She will also be studying American History, American Lit., and 11th grade religion.
I thought it might be nice to get college credit AND HS credit for the History and the Lit.
She can't be under the umbrella of our public school unless she is an enrolled student there. They don't enroll part time students. So, she doesn't qualify for dual enrollment. I called the local CC and they said she could apply for Joint Enrollment status, this would give her HS & college credit for her coursework. BUT, the tuition is $110/credit! No discounts OR financial aid is availble for high school students. They also want her to take a Stanford 10 or the CA ot IA Achievement test to show she is 11th grade ready. I wonder if the SAT would work instead. I'd really rather not fork out cash for a test we really don't need. Maybe the SAT won't prove she is 11th grade ready?
My DD is very grounded in her faith and has a spiritual mturity that took me 30 years to cultivate! I am not worried about her loosing her faith, in fact I think she'd be a beautiful light in the darkness.
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seven2hold wrote:
| I called the local CC and they said she could apply for Joint Enrollment status, this would give her HS & college credit for her coursework. BUT, the tuition is $110/credit! No discounts OR financial aid is availble for high school students. They also want her to take a Stanford 10 or the CA ot IA Achievement test to show she is 11th grade ready. I wonder if the SAT would work instead. |
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You might want to find other homeschoolers who have attended the CC to see if they found any way around these requirements. I'm sorry that they don't have their own entrance exam. Also consider talking directly to the financial aid office to be sure that there aren't any ways to defray costs, such as scholarships. Sometimes these don't kick in until your student has complete a few courses (individual professors may have monies, etc.) So even if you can't have money up front, perhaps theres is money down the road...
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| My DD is very grounded in her faith and has a spiritual mturity that took me 30 years to cultivate! I am not worried about her loosing her faith, in fact I think she'd be a beautiful light in the darkness. |
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She will be a beautiful light! My dd found that most students are open to and actually craving respectful, thoughtful, and truthful discourse with their peers. She even managed to win over some professors who couldn't deny her sound arguments delivered in a respectful and joyful manner. God is GOOD!
Love,
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