<p>Hello! I am currently a Senior in high school right now, and I have a total of 15 college credit hours. </p>
<p>I moved across the country this year, and rather than trying to fit in at a new high school, I was given the opportunity to go to the local community college here full-time. However, I'm only taking 5 classes at a time for 15 credit hours (which is full-time college student here) and it has kind of affected my GPA because they aren't AP classes or anything. </p>
<p>I was just wondering if colleges would look at my senior year transcript and see that I've decided to challenge myself and take all college courses, or look at my lack of class load and high school courses and shove my application in the corner? </p>
<p>I'm just really worried that deciding to go to college instead of finishing my Senior year wasn't a good idea, and I made a mistake. I'm also worried that the colleges I want to go to (which will most-likely be out of state) won't accept my credits and look at it as a waste. </p>
<p>I have lots of EC from my old school, but here I've found the transition hard (moving from Texas to Ohio away from friends and starting college) and haven't joined or volunteered yet. </p>
<p>Are you still considered to be a student at a local high school even though you don’t take classes there? Will you apply to colleges as a freshman and graduate from high school in 2014?</p>
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<p>You shouldn’t worry about your GPA itself too much as long as you’re getting good grades. An A in an AP class only counts more if you’re talking about weighted GPA, and colleges care more about unweighted. (However, weighted GPA is often used to determine class rank within a single high school…do you have a class rank at your new school?)
However, five classes isn’t very many, and colleges might not like it if there were more challenging courses available to you at the high school (like AP courses) and you didn’t take them. </p>
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<p>They’ll look into it more than that. AP classes aren’t inherently more challenging than community college classes…it depends on what you’re taking at the college and what the high school offers. </p>
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<p>If you’re a dual-enrollment student and you haven’t graduated, then you probably are finishing your senior year. If you have graduated, then it’s a different story. </p>
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<p>You might have trouble getting your credits accepted, but that’s just because some colleges have strict policies for transferring credit. Some colleges don’t award credit for AP exams, but that definitely doesn’t mean they see AP classes as a waste.</p>
<p>At the end of the year, will you have a high-school diploma or a GED? Who will issue your ‘senior year’ transcript? The community college or some high school program that runs out of/alongside the CC?</p>
<p>I am still considered a Senior at my new school, and at the end of the year, I will have a high school diploma–no GED. </p>
<p>I’ve taken all AP classes every year but this year, which can be good I guess (because it shows that I challenged myself) but also bad because my new school also offers AP classes and I didn’t take them. </p>
<p>And the high school and CC have a transcript for me. </p>
<p>Do you think I should drop my college classes this coming semester and start back up doing AP classes? I know that social life isn’t everything, but I find myself being more comfortable around college people than the high school kids, and I’m worried that being the “new kid” will make transition harder. Any perspective?</p>
<p>What classes are you taking and what kind of grades are you getting? </p>
<p>A semester of engineering calc (4 credits), general chemistry (5), freshman composition (3) and some 3 unit elective is far more rigorous than a full year of HS APs. </p>
<p>One of the most important things universities want is students who won’t drop out. So even if you only take english, a soft science, calculus and some other elective(s). The fact that you are doing well in college course-work goes a long way in the admission process. </p>
<p>As someone who has transferred schools in their senior year I’d say for social life your right that HS will be better. But if you have gotten used to CC, you might find the high school environment like going backwards. Plus as you already know you won’t know anyone so unless you are an amazing social butterfly you will find it pretty awkward when people are talking about other people who you know nothing about / can’t say anything about. I’d stay at CC, get those credits and then goto a real university.</p>
<p>I’m taking College Composition I & II, political science, medical terminology, macroeconomics, and intro to psychology so far. </p>
<p>And bomerr, I’ve gotten used to the CC socially because I found that young adults/adults tend not to wallow in as much self-pity and drama as HS students do and I like that hahahaha. But thank you!</p>
<p>And thank you everyone else. I’ve gotten almost all A’s(except medical terminology) in these classes so hopefully colleges will look at that. (:</p>