Parents: a dual enrollment question--

chicabuena
Fri, 28 May 2010 21:41:51 +0000

I know I could probably ask this elsewhere but I think I can get a more straightforward and accurate response from the PARENTS.

My daughter, 17, is a home-schooled junior. Part of her curriculum at home is studying for the CLEP exams (she has passed 2 so far) and she just finished 2 Dual Enrollment classes at the local community college here (Florida) a month ago.

Now she has begun taking 1 DE class at the local college (paid by the state) and 2 online classes at an out-of-state institution, paid by us. She is a registered as a transient student at the out-of-state school. Total: 3 college level classes, all ending by July 30th.

When August returns daughter will be a SENIOR and she will resume taking 2 DE classes, per semester, at the local community college. She is intending to apply in September to her top choice, an “away” university in our state, for admission in fall 2011.

My question: I know the the credits my daughter is earning at the o-o-s community college are accepted by our state university system. However, because my daughter is not a full-time college student, will these summer college credits my daughter is taking NOW be accepted by the university when she enters it in 2011?

Or do you have to be already enrolled in an institution (as a full-time college student) to have summer, transient credits count for anything?

It seems I have read more than once that quite a few high school students–juniors and seniors–take summer college courses, and once they enter their university of choice (over ayear later, if they are juniors), they are awarded credit for those summer classes. A Texan junior might go to summer school at Colombia, earn a half dozen credits, and then apply those credits to his transcript once he begins attending UT Austin, for example.

Can someone clarify this for me? Thanks!