So…anyone?
Umass Amherst has excellent cs and is a solid match, you may evwn have a shot at honors college .
Smaller colleges for cs,not engineering, would include St Olaf and Dikinson as matches, Grinnell as a reach, and Marist as a safety.
Now that I have discussed my friend’s son situation, I suspect that due to his FASFA (and having financial need) U WI was only looking at OOS students of his caliper w/o financial need.
@ClarinetDad16 <<< @mom2coIIegekids - exactly the question is for out of state state schools – how will they view the running start kid from Washington State.
I am not sure - the rules in state are clearly defined - and to maximize credits, minimize time and cost - that could be the best route. Otherwise who knows what counts and whether they become a transfer…
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We’ve been posting and answering for years. Never have we seen any univ in this country consider a high school student as a “transfer” just because the student did RS or similar while in HS. Washington isn’t the only state that has DE credits. This is quite common.
the rule of thumb for univs across this country is that if classes were taken while in HS, the student is considered to be an incoming frosh.
@mom2coIIegekids http://www.admissions.ufl.edu/ugrad/frdualenroll.html - doesn’t work that way in FL
Ok so can u guys recommend me schools? Yes running start students apply as freshman. I have gotten a million talks from my counselors about this.
Focus on instate options graduate early and take your pick of grad schools
I want to go to UW. These are my backup schools. And I’m only gonna get a bachelor’s
If you’re interested in a smaller school, look at Susquehanna in Pennsylvania. With these stats, you’d get great merit aid and they’re emphasizing their Jewish student life.
@clarinetdad16 Where are you seeing that claim in that link?
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Where in that link does it say that a high school student with college credits earned while in high school is a transfer student?
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Freshman applicants with community college credits: Any student who has earned 12 or more semester hours of college credit following graduation from high school is considered a transfer applicant and cannot apply to UF as a freshman. <<<
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clarinetdad16: the key in the link you provided is “after graduation”. As long as a student takes college classes BEFORE HS graduation, s/he’s considered a freshman applicant, who will then get advanced standing.
This is the situation everywhere in the country so that students try to challenge themselves. it’s also a good “risk free”/risk managenement policy for colleges: they want students who’ll graduate and they best predictor of sucess in college is -surprise! - previous success in college classes.
Note that the most selective universities don’t do this because their first-year classes are roughly one year above that level and they assume this previous knowledge/level of skills from their HS admits.
At UF, if you earn your AA through DE, you still apply as a freshman, but you also have to apply to your college/major (a standard freshman only applies to the University). So, a freshman that wants to major in computer sciences, would have their admissions reviewed by the University (and their major would play NO role in the admissions process), but if the student had an AA, they would need to declare a major and the college would also review the application.
Back on subject, clarinetdad16 point is valid, in that the ops in-state school is most likely to accept most if not all of the DE credits, while an OOS school may only accept some smaller number. It’s something they should research when picking a school.