<p>I was wondering if doing taking College Now courses (courses giving college credit at CUNY colleges) count for anything when applying to more competitive colleges such as Columbia, Cornell, NYU, etc.
I’m aware the college credit will probably not transfer, but does it help in my application at all for colleges to see that I’ve taken, for example, Psychology 101 and gotten a good grade at a CUNY college?</p>
<p>Also, if anyone has some general feedback on how the reputation of the College Now program or how it’s seen by top colleges, that’d be great. Thanks a lot!!</p>
<p>I assume you are talking about taking some college courses while you are in high school. Having some such courses and high grades in them can be somewhat of a plus to put on college application. Also, you would need to check each college’s rules for what they do with such college courses if you are admitted. Some actually give you full credit and use the grades as part of your college grades, some give you credit like they would for an AP course and thus without a grade, some will give credit only if the course is not used to meet one the requirements you need for graduation from high school or admission to college, e.g., they won’t give credit if you use the course to meet one of your required high school English courses; some others give limited credit if any for college courses taken in high school. In essence, find out what your favorite colleges do; such information is usually somewhere on-line at the college’s site</p>
<p>Spot on, though I’m fairly certain these courses won’t transfer credit because they’re at city colleges (CUNY = City University of New York).
I was just wondering if this means colleges won’t see them as reputable / not give weight to my doing well in such courses.</p>
<p>College coursework at any level merits some recognition. I might suggest John’s Hopkins well known CTY or Stanford’s EPGY courses (although they are, too, getting a bit overused and bland in college admissions) if you want to take courses that might challenge you and are from a brand name institution. However, taking initiative, no matter where you do it, looks good to people, so I’d suggest, if you you are satisfied with your classes, to continue taking higher and higher level work from college now. I’m not really familiar with the program I have to say. That is my humble opinion.</p>
<p>Just in additon to what I mentioned above. You are incorrect to think that because it is CUNY they are going to think less of it. CUNY’s are real colleges that teach real college courses and if you are going to have college courses shown while going to high school, universities to which you are applying are not going to consider the courses substandard because it is CUNY. Also, they fully expect that any such courses would come from a college near to wherever you live which for many is just a community college. If the university to which you are accepted gives credit for college courses taken in high school, you will get it from courses you take at CUNY as long as they are normally transferable courses – you can transfer courses that you would otherwise normally take towards a degree in a four year college but you cannot transfer things like job training courses such as bookkeeping or learning how to use a computer.</p>
<p>i’m taking college now too! since we would be taking college level courses in addition to our regular school course load, they should be weighted just as much as college courses taken at other colleges. it will also make yourself more competitive in the admissions process and give you a bit of an edge over some applicants. </p>
<p>also, my gc said that a lot of private universities accept the credits from college now. a senior that just graduated from my school got accepted by MIT and they accepted her credits from college now. but some schools may not accept it. my gc told me that NYU doesn’t accept the credits.</p>
<p>MIT will not accept CollegeNow Credits, unless you test out for them, or take AP Physics or Calculus BC. It’s a fairly decent program but very limited, and it’s original purpose was not for high caliber students, but rather provide leeway for failing students. Their Math and Science are very bland and leave much to be desired. </p>
<p>I am doing EPGY OHS, and I recommend you do it as well, they are very good with financial aid as well. </p>
<p>CollegeNow may be interesting, but honestly you are better off just going to a regular CUNY college and auditing whatever courses you want on a private arrangement, PM if you have questions, I live here as well, haha.</p>
since we would be taking college level courses in addition to our regular school course load, they should be weighted just as much as college courses taken at other colleges. it will also make yourself more competitive in the admissions process and give you a bit of an edge over some applicants. </p>