<p>What qualifications do high school students usually have to meet to take summer courses at community colleges? Thanks!</p>
<p>Where I’m from which is Washington State, you can do running start an you can take college courses starting your junior year, but they only pay for classes that are college level, so over 100. Also, they don’t pay for summer, just fall, winter, and spring and they’ll only pay for 6 quarters and only 18 credits max per quarter.
But, the answer to your question I think is yes you can take community college courses but you have to take the placement test first, and it’s just a test to test your abilities and make sure your placed in the right classes. I think that’s pretty much it just remember that for the summer quarter you have to take care of all your expenses unless you get financial aid or a waiver. Oh, and its the same for the quarters that the school pays for, they only pay for tuition books, parking, transportation is all on you, but you can get waivers and all that stuff.</p>
<p>In my county, you need a 3.0 GPA and relatively low test scores. I believe that as a public school student, the school district pays all fees besides the parking pass. Coincidentally, I registered for a class today. I thought it was pretty funny to see “Fee Waiver: $330.00, Total Cost: $0.00” on my printed schedule.</p>
<p>Yes in CA you can take classes with no GPA requirement or anything like that, to make up credits, to get ahead or just for fun.</p>
<p>Where I live, if your school has run out of courses for you to take in a particular subject area, if you get a letter from your principal, and if you’re a junior or senior, you can take community college classes…I didn’t know it was so strict everywhere elseO.o</p>
<p>so, you really need to take your question directly to the community college where you want to study.</p>
<p>There may be different policies for courses taken for college credit, for HS credit, and non-credit courses, so be certain to ask about all of these categories.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>