<p>How much does taking courses at a Community College help in college admission? Assuming that those courses are taken for a good reason (for example, I've exhausted my HS math curriculum), and good grades are achieved, would it provide any significant boost?</p>
<p>Also, do selective colleges, like an Ivy for example, tend to give credit for community college courses?</p>
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<p>I do not think that the really selective colleges give credit for CC courses if you used those credits as dual-enrollment and applied them toward your high school graduation. I have taken quite a few, so I asked the same question on a Notre Dame visit. The admissions officer said that Notre Dame does not accept credit from college classes took in high school UNLESS you did not receive high school credit for that course.</p>
<p>Its nice to take those courses, and if you do good it will show maturity, but it will not have a significant impact on the decision. Many kids take college classes who apply to top schools, so its not out of the ordinary.</p>
<p>wow didn’t I just post a question just like this?</p>
<p>Since you said you have taken all of your high school’s math courses, I would imagine that taking, say, Calculus III (or whatever level you are in) at the local CC would boost your app since obviously you are taking a class that is more difficult than the normal curriculum at your high school. Also, it would probably hurt your app if you did not take math your senior year, so I would say go for it either way.</p>
<p>UC counts transferable community college courses in the required subject areas as honors courses for admissions GPA:</p>
<p>[University</a> of California - Calculating GPA](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/q-and-a/calculating-gpa/index.html#15]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/q-and-a/calculating-gpa/index.html#15)</p>
<p>They also have transferability from California community colleges listed at [Welcome</a> to ASSIST](<a href=“http://www.assist.org%5DWelcome”>http://www.assist.org) .</p>
<p>Other state universities may or may not have similar policies and arrangements with their same state community colleges.</p>
<p>Private universities may be much more variable about transfer credit policies, and may require individual evaluation of community college transcripts.</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Also, if a lot of private colleges don’t offer credit for CC courses, do they usually offer things like placement tests to at least skip already taken courses (at least in math), or does that generally vary a lot between colleges?</p>
<p>Policies vary, but it is probably common enough for students to enter having taken college level math courses that the math departments have seen it.</p>
<p>In some cases, the universities may recommend placement into more advanced math courses, even though they may not give credit.</p>
<p>In some super-elite science/engineering schools, they may want students to retake the math anyway, but they teach it at what would be considered an honors level elsewhere (more theory, proofs, derivations, and hard problems).</p>