<p>My d needs some hs science credits for admission to a state university (not our state, with different requirements). Does anyone know if there are programs that issue high school credit to grads? Or is community college her only option?</p>
<p>My first thought is maybe an online course(s)? That would be easier than CC. Have you contacted the university? They may have a list of what courses they would accept or maybe they make exceptions for students coming from out of state (they did accept your D, after all, with a full list of courses she had taken and planned to take). Good luck.</p>
<p>My homeschooled d. did on-line community college chemistry. One semester gave her one year of high school credit. Didn’t learn a thing. Doesn’t know what a periodic table is (that’s high school chemistry; she did college chemistry). Didn’t do any labs. Sold the text book back for me than she paid. Doesn’t know any chemistry. Got an A. Didn’t go to state u. Got a gen. ed. requirement waived as a result, which allowed her to graduate in three years.</p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t care if she learns anything. She’s seeking an art major that has only one general science requirement and she has no use whatsoever for these courses they are requiring. She hasn’t been admitted, though, wordworld. :-(. They won’t admit her without these credits. To make matters worse, she failed the math entrance exam to our local community college and they won’t let her take the classes without remedial math as a prerequisite.</p>
<p>So, mini, are you saying that the online community college would be easier than hs chemistry? Because, that would be great. I want to see if I can find some school that will give her the two courses she needs without the remedial math.</p>
<p>It’s different - and she actually might find it harder. A lot of the college chemistry was manipulating the math. (Doesn’t require higher math, but does require being able to plug in and manipulate equations.) D. is an accountant, so that was simple. She could simply look up the formulas online and plug them in. Didn’t need at all to know what they meant (or care). Her online course allowed her to take weekly quizzes (and the final) as many times as she wanted until she got the grade she wanted.</p>
<p>If you PM me your e-mail, I’ll send you an article I published about the experience.</p>
<p>My D did community college and on-line courses to transfer to her school. In her case, it was because science and foreign lang were not her best areas and she needed to fulfill gen ed reqs. At her school, she got the credit as long as she got a C and it didn’t go into her GPA. Of course, she wound up with A’s.</p>
<p>However, I think that you already have to be admitted to college to take the online classes for transfer. Can she retake the math placement test at cc and then transfer to the other school when she has the pre-reqs?</p>
<p>Where we are, community college credits taken in high school automatically transfer to state u’s. In fact, they require that you take them with you (gets folks out the universities faster).</p>
<p>If you are in Ga ( your screen name?) google georgia virtual school. They are online courses with phone and email support.</p>
<p>Check here for online college physics and bio courses from the university of texas for about $500 each. These might transfer to count for college courses as well.</p>
<p>[Online</a> College Course Search Results :: University Extension, The University of Texas at Austin](<a href=“http://courses.webhost.utexas.edu/dec/college/searchresults.cfm?Category=AllCategories&UpperLowerDivision=AllDivisions&CreditHours=AllCreditHours&DeliveryMode=AllModes]Online”>http://courses.webhost.utexas.edu/dec/college/searchresults.cfm?Category=AllCategories&UpperLowerDivision=AllDivisions&CreditHours=AllCreditHours&DeliveryMode=AllModes)</p>
<p>I would caution you to be sure whatever U she plans to attend WILL accept the courses she plans to take. D found out that her target transfer school would NOT accept on-line courses but were fine with the other courses she took. After learning that, she consulted them for the other courses she wanted to take to be sure they would all transfer. She took her courses at local CC, which worked well for her and were practically free. For some reason, there was no math placement test but she ended up take & passing CC pre-calc course & that was her last math course.</p>
<p>I was going to say the same thing as HImom-depending on where she is going to college, they ask for LAB sciences and while Chemistry is a lab science, doing an online course with no labs isn’t a generally accepted option for better colleges.</p>
<p>I looked all over the Georgia Virtual School web site, but couldn’t see if someone with a high school diploma could still take classes. If they’ll allow that, it will be great. I’ve asked them to respond to me, but darn this 3-day weekend! (I can’t believe I said that.)</p>
<p>Not sure about the retake of the entrance exam. The web site says you have to wait a year, but it’s a little vague and rules are changing, so I’m going to call them tomorrow and find out the real answer. She took the test last fall, so if she has to wait a full year, she might not be able to start classes until fall. Assuming she can pass the test on a retake.</p>
<p>Believe me, I will definitely run any course we are considering by the admissions department. When we met with the counselor last week I was confused by what they were asking for, because the wording says “lab” but they won’t accept just any lab science, either. It has to be chemistry, biology, or physics. He suggested an online course, and I brought up the fact that they probably wouldn’t have a real lab, whereas some of the other science courses we were looking at in community college did have labs. I asked, “Does it really have to be a ‘lab’ science, or does it just have to be chemistry, biology or physics?” and he answered that it was the latter. HOWEVER, I’m not taking anything as final until I see it in writing.</p>