Hi! I have a newbie-type of question. Would taking a non-dual credit, regular college class during high school negatively affect or potentially compromise a student's freshman status at a college?
What brought this up was that I was looking at Georgia Tech's web-site and it defined a "Freshman" as a student "who has never been enrolled in a college, with the exception of dual enrollment while in high school". This raised a red flag for me because it is possible that my DD may need to take an advanced college math class her senior year of high school that is *not* dual credit, because she may run out of advanced math classes to take at her school. Unfortunately, her high school does not offer the math class she wants/needs to take as a dual credit course, so her counselor told her she could just take it as a regular college class. Initially I assumed that this would be ok for her to do, but after reading that Georgia Tech definition of freshman, I became concerned. I do not want her to do anything to jeopardize her prospective freshman status, since we will be fishing for merit aid.
I know I should contact each college directly at some point and ask this question directly, but I first wanted to put this question out there to see if anyone else had come across this issue. Am I being silly in worrying about this?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
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