Community college transfer question

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<p>This is my first post, sorry if I am making it in the wrong place!</p>

<p>I am currently a junior and I go to school in the U.S. Because my school does not offer the AP classes I want/offer these classes at inconvenient times, I have been taking classes (chemistry, biology, psychology) at the local community college. I still go to high school but I take classes there at night (which for some reason is incomprehensible to everyone I have tried to explain this to so far). Now as I am nearing my time to finally round up all my classes and apply to a 4 year university I am stuck a little on some questions about this and I was hoping that someone here who has gone through doing this could help explain the process to me. First off, I realize now that some colleges don't accept these as transfers and that's fine, but are they looked at about the same as an AP course? if they do accept the transfer how exactly will that work? How should I make it clear I have taken these classes? is it worth it even if I got a B in one to show I took these? If I apply to a school overseas does it work the same?</p>

<p>I would really appreciate any information I could get. I am planning on taking a more advanced chemistry next semester as well as another science class in addition to the two AP classes at my school so I would love to know if I will be able to get at least some credit for taking these.</p>

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<p>319 views but no replies? Is this not a common thing?</p>

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<p>At most universities, if you have not yet graduated from high school, you will apply as a freshman, not a transfer. Normally, taking college courses while in high school is generally considered a good thing, unless you do poorly in those courses. Note that if you want to eventually apply to medical school, college courses taken in high school will be included in college GPA calculations for medical school application purposes (so get A grades).</p>

<p>Policies on accepting transfer credit from community colleges vary. Same state public universities often have articulation agreements specifying what community college courses count for which courses at the public university. Private and out of state universities may have to individually evaluate your transfer credit, so you may not know until you enroll (though you may be able to guess based on course descriptions and syllabi).</p>

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<p>Most colleges accept CC classes for credit, but not all. The CC you attend now would know and probably have academic advisers willing to help. My neighbor’s son started college as an 18 year old junior and needed only to years to get his BA.</p>