What are the best community college courses to take during high school?Answered
Hello,
I will be a senior next year and will most likely have a good amount of free time which I would like to put forward to a good use. One of my best options is to take college courses at my local community college, which I believe can potentially help me skip some courses during my time in college.
Please let me know if this would be possible, and if so which community college courses may be the most useful towards college and may allow me to skip courses in colleges such as the UC's and CSU's.
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Hey @AmanA!
I recommend taking courses that cut out both AA and high school requirements. Based on your needs in high school, correlate them with the college courses you are allowed to take and move on from there. For me, I took courses that would remove my math, English, science, and history course requirements. I recommend registering for classes as soon as possible because good teachers usually disappear within the first week of registration (talking from experience). Make a list of all the high school credits you still need and a list of the college courses that are offered that can remove the high school credits. Since you already have free time, I suggest taking classes like English or math or taking prerequisites based on your major.
It totally depends on what you would like to major in. I am sure you school might have a dual enrollment program that gives you high school credit so that way you can get rid of the useless classes during senior year and focus on the harder ones. You can take econ and government at a local community college that has a dual enrollment program with your school so that way you don't have to take econ and government your senior year.
You should probably take some the general courses required to graduate. I would recomend taking either, an english, history, or math classes in order to knock out some of those required courses. You could also take courses to prepare for your major so colleges know a good candidate for the program. For example i am taking math and physics at my local community college in order to show universitys that I have a strong foundation in these areas and would a good engineering student at their school. Hope this helps.
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Thanks for the info @ZimaA, is there any resource you are aware of which can be used to find what courses are allowed to be transferred from CC to another college such as any of the UC's for example. I have heard that different colleges have different courses they do and do not accept, so please let me know if you know anything about this!