<p>Thankfully the early college HS program in California isn’t doing that. Both D14 & D15 will enter as freshman, be in the same dorms and experience all of the incoming freshman hoopla. You just have to be careful not to take any college classes after HS graduation, because that can potentially affect your freshman status. Her CC didn’t offer an AA in art, so she’s getting one in Liberal Arts Studies because it allowed her to knock out a lot of GE requirements, as well as the foreign language requirement to apply to the UCs and many universities.</p>