Homeschooling in North Carolina

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In CA, we also have free (almost) dual-enrollment for high school students (actually K-12 students). If you are under 16, then you must have instructor approval for each course you sign up for. You do have to pay a health fee of $19/semester (which makes no sense if you have health insurance) and a student center fee of $1/unit if you take classes on campus (if you take them on a satellite campus or online, there is no student center fee).

There is no limit to the total number of units you can get through this method, but there is a limit to the number of units you can take each semester: 7 units per fall or spring semester and 5 units per summer session. Basically 2 classes each spring and fall, and 1 class each summer.

That being said, they specifically talk about homeschooled students, BUT then require high school DISTRICT approval for a student to take college classes?!?! I have absolutely no idea why this is a requirement for kids not attending school in that district, or if there will be any issues when you try to get that approval. But, there it is.

Another crazy thing in our state - the community colleges will allow 48 units of CLEP exams, but CSU's will only accept 30 units, and UC's will not accept any. So you have to figure out where you want to transfer to before you go crazy with the CLEP exams.

Our CSU's are roughly $7000/yr for in-state tuition, so about $14000 if you completely dual-enroll and/or CLEP for the 60 units of GenEd/lower division. And we also have guaranteed admission to the CSU/UC system.

Anyway, it's great that you are figuring this out for people Jennifer. It would be nice to get this kind of thing going everywhere, for everyone. Next - getting those state colleges to accept ACE and NCCRS credit!