Hi guys
I’m going to be a senior after this summer and would like to shave off as many college classes as I can before I graduate. How would I go about finishing, i believe, 60hrs of required General Education over the summer?
Also, if anyone has done this before, how do colleges look at it this on an application?
60 hours is, I assume 4 classes? 4 classes would normally take an entire semester.
I’m not sure of the specifics hence the reason I’m here. But yeah I believe it’s something like that. How would I go about approaching the idea and doing it?
Wouldn’t taking a few AP tests help you with some of the gen ed requirements? Or taking a class at a community college through dual enrollment? I don’t know how you would get all of the done in one summer.
Check out dual enrollment programs at your local community college. I did them and got almost 30 credit hours of college credit (here each class is 3 credit hours and a science with a lab is 4 credit hours). I’ve personally known people who went to college as college sophomores and juniors because of the credits they got from dual enrollment. However, make sure to check the dual enrollment credit policy at the colleges you’re interested in going to after high school. If you plan on going to a public state school, then they’ll probably take most if not all of your DE credit (They may also have policies that limit how many DE credits can go towards your major and require you to take a certain amount of credits at their institution) If you want to go to some elite private school or some out-of-state school, there are much more conditions and restrictions on DE credit if they even accept it. Talk to your GC to see if they have an insight to possible programs and then reach out to some local community colleges to learn more about their programs. At my high school, the school pays for your college classes and textbooks (as long as you get above a certain grade), but every DE program isn’t like that so make sure that this is something your family can handle financially.
My school my school has no DE setup for any class other than econ and gov, and that’s if the VP decides you’ve maxed out your schedule in the HS. It’s prett…VERY garbage. And my GC isn’t any help, he basically bases everything off what the admins want every student to do at the HS itself to maximize funding. This is basically why I’m here asking for help lol.
Reach out to a local community college to see if they have their own early college program. Also, see if the colleges you plan on going to accept CLEP credits. Those can help you test out of some of those basic GEs.