Does it matter whether you take a community college course that is offered by your high school at your high school campus or at the actual community college campus? Does it make any difference? Thanks!
For admissions? No. For possible college credit, yes. CC courses at your HS will not give college credit, generally, nor will CC courses at a college which are used for HS credit. But it does depend on the university. CC courses taken at a college but not counted towards your HS credits may transfer, but that’s is up to the college you eventually attend.
Thanks for the help! Also, if I decide to take CC courses senior year after college decisions come out, how can I transfer the CC credits then (if they are transferrable)? Thanks again!
Each college has it’s own procedure. When the time comes, contact that college’s registrar’s office.
It is probably risky to make any kind of generalization here, since universities’ policies vary all over the place. Also, be aware of the difference between credit units, subject credit, and placement for transfer credit (or AP credit).
A student who may eventually want to apply to professional school (e.g. medical or law) should realize that college courses taken while in high school and their grades will have to be reported on the professional school applications.
Agree with @ucbalumnus. It depends on both the community college and the target university of the student. My son’s dual credit partner community college awards college credit that is exactly the same as if the course were taken on the college campus, and those credits are accepted toward the core curriculum at any public university in the state (Texas) as well as most private schools in Texas. In addition, public universities and some privates in neighboring states also readily accept dual credit from this community college system. OP, you should be able to find out how dual credit in your school translates to college credit, either from your own guidance counselor or from the partner college that grants the college credit.
DE credit also applies to California publics - so guess you really need to look at where you are applying and what their policies are.
Thanks all. I am planning to take some CC courses that I believe may be UC transferrable(?) since they were on the UC transferrable courses tab on assist. If it says UC transferrable on Assist, is it transferrable to all UCs, including Berkeley, or do Berkeley and UCLA have some different criteria? I’m mainly concerned b/c my course load is weak and lacks AP courses. How much would taking CC courses benefit me?
Yes, UC transferable courses will transfer to UCs, but you need to check http://www.assist.org to see if they will give subject credit for specific courses, since different UCs may structure some of their courses differently from each other or community colleges (note that this can also be affected by semester versus quarter system).
For example, if you take an introductory microeconomics course at a CC, it may be accepted as equivalent to a introductory microeconomics course at a UC. But at a UC which has a combined introductory economics course, you need to take both an introductory microeconomics course and an introductory macroeconomics course at the CC to get subject credit for that.
http://web2.assist.org/web-assist/report.do?agreement=aa&reportPath=REPORT_2&reportScript=Rep2.pl&event=18&swap=1&dir=1&sia=LANEY&ria=CSULA&ia=LANEY&oia=CSULA&aay=16-17&ay=16-17&dora=ECON
http://web2.assist.org/web-assist/report.do?agreement=aa&reportPath=REPORT_2&reportScript=Rep2.pl&event=18&swap=1&dir=1&sia=LANEY&ria=UCB&ia=LANEY&oia=UCB&aay=16-17&ay=16-17&dora=ECON
Thanks so much! Also on Assist, do I choose “UC Transferable Courses” from the list that shows CSU transferrable courses, CSU GE-Breadth Certification Courses, CSU US History, Constitution, and American Ideals Courses, etc.? And this applies for all UCs (Berkeley/UCLA not exceptions), right?
Thanks again for all your help 
If you just want a UC transferable course, then you can use that list.
However, if you want to know specific subject credit (e.g. the economics example in #8), then you need to check the articulation agreement between the specific CC and specific UC for the specific subject.
Oh, I see. I’m just wondering if it’s really worth to take CC courses as like an “alternative” to APs, since I very few APs and it’s too late to add more now. Thanks!!
Depends on which courses.
Principles of macroecon & principles of microecon. We don’t have AP econ at my HS.
Those should be fine, since introductory economics is a fairly common course that is fairly standard (check http://www.assist.org to be sure of transferability and subject credit for each UC and CSU). As noted in the examples above, it is best to take both, in case you attend a school where introductory economics is combined into one course.