I took college courses while in high school through the Post-Secondary Enrollment Option Program. How do their courses figure in the admissions decision?
A. This depends on what courses were taken in college, which in high school, and how successful the applicant was in the college-level courses. Students with college credit earned in courses not generally available at the high school who have done well in these courses and have completed a standard college preparatory curriculum will receive favorable consideration from the Honors admissions committee. Examples of such courses include but are not limited to languages not offered in the students high school; poetry or literature classes beyond the 12th grade level; calculus based physics; courses in subject areas not widely available in high school such as sociology, psychology or economics; mathematics courses at the level of calculus or beyond. It is possible for a student to enroll in PSEO courses and be less well prepared than if they had not done so. Typically a high school physics class is algebra based. There are college science courses which are conceptually based. Students who
