Can incoming Fall 2017 FTF take CC summer courses prior to starting fall quarter?
I’m assuming you are asking about Community College courses? If so, then the answer is yes. Just check assist.org and the current agreement between your CC and Cal Poly, to see if the course transfers over.
My son used the local CCs during the summers to fulfill GE credits and some lower division engineering classes. This allowed him some leeway in taking a lighter load some quarters, adding an engineering elective, or having to retake a class. This allowed him to finish in 4 years even though he came in with very little AP credit. Of course he wasn’t working summers until after his junior year, when he got an internship.
@rxcat85 yes, Community College courses. Thank you. Was concerned about the first summer after graduation before official fall quarter enrollment affecting FTF status, or if that even matters?
You can take CC courses for credit to be transferred to a State University while in high school. Heard of Dual Enrollment while in HS? Of course it depends on the HS/school district. My kid’s HS won’t let them take CC courses until after junior year and it’s only for enrichment, i.e.) can’t take a course that’s offered at the HS. So long you don’t have over 90 credit units, you will still be considered a FTF and not a transfer student.
Both my kids took CC courses during the summer after junior year. One summer, my son took calc IV and dynamics at one CC, and two online GEs at another. Of course he wasn’t working and he was able to handle it.
As for my D, who will most likely commit to Cal Poly as an engineering major. She is set up with her second consecutive summer engineering internship. So it will be harder for her to fit in more than one online CC during the summer.
Whether or not you should take summer courses prior to your first quarter depends on what you plan on fulfilling with those courses. If you want the course to count for your first quarter, that’s not going to happen. You will be registered for your first quarter before you finish the CC classes. In other words, don’t plan on using the CC classes to satisfy prerequisites for the following quarter. It’s easiest to just take your GEs, because it doesn’t really matter when those get applied to your Poly transcript so long as they’re there before you graduate.
And I do highly suggest doing GEs at Cuesta; it is well known that the GEs at Poly are more work than they’re worth. If you are lucky enough to get a seat.