Applying at TESC under 21

[Publius]

Thanks!!

While the enrollment fee is pretty stiff I plan on finishing my degree within a year by being a full time student, so the fee shouldn't be a problem.
I am pretty dead set on getting in on their old system, do you have any idea how many credits I would need to get approval?
And I wont technically have the high school diploma for another 2 weeks....

By chance do you know if it is too early to send my dual credit transcript to TESC even though I havent applied yet??

Not a problem!

Alright good deal.
I would contact TESC tomorrow, in writing, and and confirm that if you apply before July 1st then you'll be grandfathered in under the old system. (This has already been established, but it's ALWAYs best to get it in writing to yourself). You won't have to worry about any minimum number of credits to apply. They're a state school and probably have a decent number of students coming to them with very few if any credits.
Yeah, I wouldn't be worried about that either. You should be fine.

Personally, I'd send mine in right as I applied. If they get it before you apply, they may just look at it, see there's no student in the system that matches it, and either throw it out or get lost, who knows. To be on the safe side, I'd just request the transfer credit when you apply.

Another note: You do have up after you apply, 6 months before you have to enroll (before you have to reapply). One thing you may want to consider doing is, using those 6 months to your advantage, at least 3 or 4 of them. Think of it this way. If you apply, and as soon as you're accepted, you enroll, you have 1 year to finish everything. If you use those extra months, and it turns out you didn't need them and you end up finishing in a year anyway you can still file for graduation. You can spend 4 or 5 months just CLEPing. You may say, heck this is harder then I realized and the extra time can come in handy. Regardless, it's a win, win situation, IMO. Just something chew on. (BTW, I don't know if I stated it directly, and I'm not sure if you know... but during those 6 months after you apply, you CAN send transcripts to them).