<p>How does Stanford treats summer enrichment science classes at community colleges? Our HS promotes taking summer classes and cc classes are free for HS students. My DD16 is taking chemistry at local cc this summer, so she can take physics next year at school. Trying to decide if she should continue taking next lever chemistry in September to double up with physics class in HS at take chemistry and physics APs next spring.</p>
<p>Colleges generally like to see that you have an interest and take advantage of opportunities that you have.
I am not sure if you are talking about an “enrichment class” or an actual college course. My guess is that an actual accredited course would be perceived better than an enrichment class.</p>
<p>Yes. She is taking actual first chemistry class at the community college that will give credits for UC and CS schools. The problem is, that Stanford and other top level universities might want to see classes from local universities, not CC.</p>
<p>I don’t see that it is a problem at all since an accredited course is an accredited course.
My DS took several classes at a CC.</p>
<p>What matters to Stanford and to other top-level universities is not the game of accumulating “credit” so as to truncate the college experience (Stanford in particular seems to dislike this mindset) but rather the joy a student experiences and the passion a student develops when he or she indulges an intellectual interest. Stanford is far more concerned with the substance of a student’s intellectual pursuits (i.e., what he/she gained from his/her experiences taking classes) than it is with the sheer number of credits a student accumulates. Having said these things, taking classes at a CC is absolutely no problem and is an excellent thing to do if the classes relate to a subject in which a student is deeply interested.</p>