<p>I have been taking course at Prince George's Community College while still in high school. I have 18 credits so far. The school pays for my tuition until I graduate, therefore I'm taking advantage. </p>
<p>So I've applied to 4-year schools as Electrical Engineering major. Almost all schools require incoming freshmen to take Chem and Cal 1. So it is vital for me to take them at PGCC now so that I don't have to take them at 4-year school.</p>
<p>I plan to take 1 course only for Spring 2015 while in high school; not two because I would overload myself as I did in the Fall 2014. At PGCC, I am eligible (based on my level of sequence) to take Pre Cal or Chem. </p>
<p>I'm thinking about taking PreCal/Chem either one in the Spring and the other in the Summer, which is after my graduation. However, I heard that taking a course in Summer after graduation would make me a transfer student, which is not what I want: I want to be consider an incoming freshmen. </p>
<p>Is it worth to take the risk and therefore become a transfer student? I have already applied as freshmen. </p>
<p>Taking classes after graduating HS, and before applying to college is what might turn you into a transfer. When you know where you will be attending in the fall, you can communicate with the departments there and get a recommendation for what you should take in the summer, where you should take it, and whether or not the credit from that course would actually be applicable to your degree program. </p>
<p>You will have a lot of difficulty with Calculus if you do not have a solid basis in PreCal. So find out where it is taught best (your HS or PGCC) and plan to take it there. If you have had a year of general chemistry in HS, and all of your sciences are pretty strong, you probably can wait and take college-level chemistry once you start college in the fall.</p>
<p>Like hippo said, asking here why you can or cannot do something that’s totally the call of your eventual 4 year college is wasting time/energy. THEY will tell you what you can and cannot do.</p>
<p>@happymomof1 Okay, I see. I have applied to schools. And yes most definitely they will tell how to manage this. I just thought that if I take community college after HS, would make a transfer, though I applied as a freshmen and will get accepted as a freshmen (for instance). </p>
<p>My HS never assigned it to me PreCal and Chem, so I got away with that though it wasn’t my intention. I plan to take them at PGCC, where it’s more easier. PreCal should be cake because I took College Algebra, which is PreCal without Trig. </p>
<p>The Summer Semester at PGCC is something to look forward to because they are one month long in June and another in July. So that gives me the opportunity to enroll into up to 4 courses for 2 months total prior to starting at 4-year university’s Fall term. </p>
<p>As for now, I plan to take one course only in the Spring 2015. </p>