Too Few CC Courses

Pre-College Issues Home Schooling and College
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<p>It seems to me that most of the successful home-schoolers on College Confidential have extensive dual enrollment credits from community colleges. </p>

<p>Until next year, all of my courses will have been taken online, at my local homeschool college-prep tutorial, through private tutoring, or through self-teaching. I have avoided dual enrolling in the community college for some time because it is known for being extremely easy and non-rigorous. However, my college-prep tutorial does not have a physics option, so I am dual-enrolling in Calculus-based Physics at the community college as a senior. This will be my first and potentially only dual enrollment course.</p>

<p>Will the fact that I have only taken one dual-enrollment course negatively affect me in the college application process? If it helps, I am applying to schools like MIT and Caltech, and my objective statistics and ECs can be found here:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1652569-chances-and-college-list.html#latest"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1652569-chances-and-college-list.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I don’t think so. You’ve done plenty and you have test scores to back it up. Don’t worry about it. Just get fantastic letters of recommendation and write killer essays. And interview with every school you can.</p>

<p>Can you afford all the schools on your list?</p>

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<p>nah,</p>

<p>I wouldn’t worry about it. The point is to show you’re challenged yourself and are capable of college level work, which is evident. Work on your essay writing and maybe tilt one of your EC interests towards helping people in your immediate community.</p>

<p>A lot of people would be envious of that record.</p>

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<p>nah,</p>

<p>I wouldn’t worry about it. The point is to show you’re challenged yourself and are capable of college level work, which is evident. Work on your essay writing and maybe tilt one of your EC interests towards helping people in your immediate community.</p>

<p>A lot of people would be envious of that record.</p>

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<p>Make sure to write concise course descriptions including texts used, form of assessment, projects, instructor, etc.
Taking one course shows your ability to “function in a classroom” and do college-level work.</p>