<p>What were your experiences in taking a class at a community college.</p>
<p>What is the usual requirement in grades, or what level you are in (freshmen, sophomore. etc). Did you take night classes?</p>
<p>I am interested in taking a community college course, how would I go about doing so?</p>
<p>i'm actually at my community college right now, skipping a class i didn't register for (but crashed anyway)</p>
<p>i'm going to be a junior next year. before sophomore year ended, i decided to take a community college course during the summer, to keep me from going into a vegetative state on the couch. heh. i was going to take precal so that i could be in ap calc next year, but i didn't have the grades to make it count =( so i decided to take up my next favorite thing, astronomy. </p>
<p>first, you have to find their course list for the season, and get the application. usually if you're in high school, they require a special application along with the regular one. it asks what school you're going to, what specific classes you want to take, and requires parent and school admin signitures. also, check to see if you need any prerequisites for the class. for example, precal requires that you've taken a certain course and taken an entrance exam. you also need a transcript of the current courses you're taking. </p>
<p>after you have all your applications and papers in order, then you send it to the cc, and they'll send you instructions. because we're in high school, we get second priority. that means that when you register for classes online, it's about 3-4 weeks after it had already opened for regular college students. we basically need to pray that other people don't fill the classes before you get to register. but if they do, its ok. you can usually crash the class, talk to the teacher, and he'll give you a number so you can register.</p>
<p>CC is a learning experience. i can't say that the people in my class are the brightest in the world, but you get a feel about how college is going to be like-- for example, no attendance or roll-call. its just a sign-in sheet that gets passed around. they won't hound you for papers. they expect you to listen in class, and if you're asleep (which i was last week...bah rehearsals) they won't tell you to wake up-- its your own fault if you miss notes. its just little things like that.</p>
<p>i hope this helps!</p>
<p>PS- in california, if you're in high school and take less than 12 units, you get to go for free! (well, for $1. but it can get waived)</p>
<p>great tips! What do you suggest if I dont want to take it over the summer, but rather during the school year more likely during the spring semester? </p>
<p>I would have to take evening classes?</p>
<p>My son took a summer course in Statistics at a local college (not CC). He actually found it MUCH easier than anything he's had at his high school & was very disappointed that class never lasted the 2 hours it was scheduled for. He was also disappointed that there was no depth to the material.
I have friends whose children went to CC & then transferred to the local U. They really liked the greater personal attention & smaller classes CC offered.</p>
<p>well, you usually have to be a junior or senior in high school if you want to take classes during the day. there's a few reasons</p>
<p>a) if you're a freshman or sophomore, you still need the time in your schedule to fit the classes you're required to take.
b) it's easier if you're a junior or senior, becuase that most likely means you have your license and can drive yourself to and from schools.
c) unless you're gifted in math or science, there's really no reason to take classes at a community college. i can see the appeal of it, it's such a blast. but unless your school is really crappy or full of jerks, high school is best experienced at high school, with your friends</p>
<p>even if these don't apply to you, you always have to pass the permission through the school. talk to the counselors, and if they see fit, they'll give you an application for concurrent enrollment. but you probably should've thought of this in march or april, so that you can talk with the school and get the CC apps for the fall.</p>
<p>I live in Washington and took it part of the state's Running Start program - which is only for juniors or seniors. My school offers NO AP sciences and maths and very few APs - the main ones being for English so I was getting annoyed and decided to go to the local CC when I wasn't doing AP at normal school. </p>
<p>I made the mistake of over-scheduling myself and doing class in the morning and then my normal high school schedule and then class again at the CC for night. It was very frustrating and stressful - this was for my first quarter. Typically, night classes would go for about 2.5 hours twice a week. </p>
<p>My other quarters, I had night classes and in spring, I had morning classes with one night class once a week. It wasn't as bad since I wasn't travelling constantly - (I don't drive and so I had to be in sync with bus schedules). </p>
<p>The classes weren't tremendously difficult - it was more a testament to time management, organization, and a higher level of responsibility. </p>
<p>I had a chem class where the entire grade was based on 2 exams. For the duration fo the quarter, I arrived to class, listened, and took notes. My other classes were modeled under a similar format. Also, homework was not mandated. </p>
<p>Also, CC classes can be unpredicatable - I didn't have class for a week of the quarter for the chem class because there wasn't anyone to teach it! So things were in a rush and the CC had to find someone from a different CC to teach. My classroom also changed twice. </p>
<p>Although it IS a CC - please don't make the mistake of undermining the difficulty of coursework and the effort involved and also the student body and the abilities of your CC classmates. Treat classes seriously, cuz after all, it IS college and it will count.</p>
<p>I took a Japanese class in CC in spring semester, but however I don't think it's a good idea to take class during spring or fall semester. The Japanese class I took had a lot of test (once a week) and you really have to spend time to study for it. Not like high school classes, there isn't any project or anything. Students basically just study the text book and take the test. I think it will be more interesting to take a language class at high school. I took the class because one semester of language class in cc equals to one years of the class in high school and I can really save a lot of time by doing that.</p>
<p>Yeah... I took a few to get rid of some very annoying graduation requirements.</p>
<p>Well I am mainly interested in taking US history in community college in order to be eligible for the advanced curriculum in the Junior States program.</p>
<p>If not, then I will simply take a class like Philosophy that is not offered in my school, or even Chinese, or something like that.</p>
<p>I'd suggest speaking with your high school college (or guidance) counselor about classes that will be honored by your high school and/or colleges you may apply to. When my son signed up for a class at the local college, the counselor looked over the courses offered & suggested he take statistics because most other colleges would accept it & give him credit for it. She said that most colleges will NOT accept social science courses at other schools & require you to take the social science course at THEIR school for credit.</p>
<p>Well I am not going to take CC classes for COLLEGE credit, I am more hoping that it would count as HIGH SCHOOL credit instead. I dont mind taking anything again in College, atleast I want to get there. </p>
<p>Taking a Philosophy course would help me get a taste of it since I plan on majoring in it. </p>
<p>Plus, I would love to learn Chinese. :)</p>
<p>are you planning to take it during the daytime? because then you need a license to drive. lol</p>
<p>you gotta talk to your school about that. for high school credit, they have programs where kids can take the same courses that are offered in high school at a community college, but that's usually only open to kids with special circumstances, like someone who's high school is filled with jerks and they get picked so much it affected their learning. i know someone who did that, and she loved it.</p>
<p>okay. i have a question about this...</p>
<p>i want to take a weekend course.</p>
<p>next year, i'm taking:</p>
<p>ap eng lit and comp
ap chem II (double-blocked every morning - at my school, you have 4 classes/day and each are 90 mins long)
ap us history
ap music theory
chamber choir honors
scientific research honors
pre-cal honors</p>
<p>i want to take psychology 101 every saturday from 9-12:30 pm. with my schedule at school, should i do it? i'm quite interested in psychology (i took a stupid little semester course freshman year) and am considering it as a possible career.</p>
<p>will it be overwhelming to take all that crap? i mean, all of those classes?</p>