<p>How hard is it to take classes at a cc while in high school? What's the difference between the speeds of the classes?</p>
<p>Depends, are you doing full time, half time, or 1-2 classes?</p>
<p>Full time is the fact that you will be there and considered pretty much a student there but you can go back to high school and hang out at football games. You won't see friends at high school very much. You can of course; get ahead in school and build new relationships. If you hate high school; this could be a good option.</p>
<p>Half time is like inbetween. Soem say one doesn't belong at their because one misses half of everything. People usually schedule that they do mornings or afternoons and use the other time to be at high school.</p>
<p>1-2 classes (I did this) was good for me. I got to pick harder material that I enjoyed. I drove 5 minutes to class and then had time at the end to run a speedy errand. It worked for me because I had lax teachers. Did I know the other students at CC well? No, but I got benefits of being a student (computers/printing, food, etc).</p>
<p>As for speed...I did a music class the first semester which I didn't do well at (I got a B). But considering I couldn't sing, couldn't play piano and didn't show up alot towards the end, I did well. I didn't think it moved fast at all. I had 2 classes second semester and both went at normal pace. Sometimes it felt like it dragged but it was easy and fun.</p>
<p>The thing with CC is the fact that you don't have to go to class if you don't want to. That can be tough. Homework is either turned into that day, or its a 0. So email and talking beforehand usually means full credit.</p>
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<p>in my experience, the material is approximately the same difficulty as high school stuff. what makes it hard for me isnt the material, but the grading scale, at college, its<br>
99-100 4.0 (A)
98 3.9 (A)
97 3.8 (A-)
96 3.7 (A-)
95 3.6 (A-)
94 3.5 (A-)
93 3.4 (B+)
92 3.3 (B+)
91 3.2 (B+)
while at high school its
94-100 4.0 (A)
88-93 3.7 (A-)
85-87 3.3 (B+)</p>
<p>so that makes it hard to get an A. in one of my classes, i got 100 on both my papers and my powerpoint presentation, and all the homework for the class, but i only got partial credit for one question on the final. so i ended up with a 3.9 after getting 45/50 on the final and 100 on everything else. my high school is definitely not that rough with grading.</p>
<p>i have found that the speed is a little bit faster than high school. especially in social science/humanities/english classes. math and science seem to be about the same speed as high school.</p>
<p>Some states (Iowa & Minn. I know for sure) have a PSEO program, where you can take classes at college for dual (H.S. and college) credit. Plus, it's free.</p>