<p>is it worth paying $135 for college credit for my middle schooler? he went to a people to people trip this past summer and we received a letter offering college credit if we paid this sum. has anybody found this worthwhile? i’m not saying it’s a scam or anything but perhaps the crdit wouldn’t mean much since there is no exam, just a paper due…</p>
<p>College credit for a middle schooler? What college is issuing the credit? What is the name of the “course”? It might be worthwhile to contact a local college’s registrar to find out just how acceptable the credit would be.</p>
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<p>Probably not. You’d want to find out first whether that credit would transfer to at least your flagship public U.</p>
<p>My son went to Boys State and he could have received college credit if he had done some papers and worksheets associated with state government, but we found out that the credit was only good at a community college at the state capitol.</p>
<p>Not to denigrate the experience that your son had, or the valuable work he did on his people-to-people trip, but my guess is that it’s unlikely that a major college or university would accept it for credit. Of course, others may have more experience with this and I could be way off base, but I’m just going by my son’s experience. Actually, now that I think back, even some of the dual enrollment classes offered at his high school for college credit would not transfer to most colleges outside of our state.</p>
<p>i think you guys are right… that was my gut reaction but i wanted to check it out.
thanks!</p>
<p>My ds could have received college credit for a summer program he attended on a college campus. It wouldn’t have cost anything, although he would have been required to take an exam.</p>
<p>However, we opted not to pursue this. If he had earned credit from this college, then a transcript from this school would have been required as part of every college application he filled out in the future, and for many scholarship applications as well.</p>
<p>It just didn’t seem worth the trouble. He would have earned only 1 credit hour, and it’s highly doubtful that it would have fulfilled any requirements or made any difference to him in the future.</p>