UMD Concurrent Enrollment

[Anonymous]

Do you know anything about Concurrent Enrollment at UMD?
The website says HS seniors can take 2 courses per semester at UMD.

It may be a way to get access to advanced courses not available in MC Dual Enrollment, for students who logistics
ally can't attend a magnet HS.

But it's in person, so may be impractically to commute to during school year.

https://admissions.umd.edu/persona/prospective-students

https://sofia.umd.edu/sofia/concurrent

[Anonymous]

That would be an opportunity offered by UMD. Where MCPS would come in is if you wanted the courses to count towards graduation from HS: you'd need to get permission ahead of time and I have no knowledge of whether it would be granted (although I have a hard time imagining not). My university department (not UMD) always has a few HS students in our summer courses. They tend to do pretty well. But when they occasionally show up in regular school-year courses (in person during the fall and spring semesters) we do not have a program or office of any kind to mentor them or help them navigate the university systems. I'd check on that before just deciding to drop a kid in. If they have trouble academically, how do they get help? Will they need a university ID to enter any buildings, including libraries? Can they use the university transit system, and if so, how? How do they get help with digital systems and processes? Professors often don't have answers to these kinds of questions, and HS students are a lot like young freshmen...who never attended freshman orientation and have no on-campus experience. It's obviously something that can be dealt with, but there is advance planning needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you know anything about Concurrent Enrollment at UMD?
The website says HS seniors can take 2 courses per semester at UMD.

It may be a way to get access to advanced courses not available in MC Dual Enrollment, for students who logistics
ally can't attend a magnet HS.

But it's in person, so may be impractically to commute to during school year.

https://admissions.umd.edu/persona/prospective-students

https://sofia.umd.edu/sofia/concurrent

What advanced classes are you talking about. It isn’t like you can take a 300 level biology class right away. Montgomery college has most of the prerequisites for the advanced classes. It would not make sense to turn down a free program just to take basically the same class at UMD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That would be an opportunity offered by UMD. Where MCPS would come in is if you wanted the courses to count towards graduation from HS: you'd need to get permission ahead of time and I have no knowledge of whether it would be granted (although I have a hard time imagining not). My university department (not UMD) always has a few HS students in our summer courses. They tend to do pretty well. But when they occasionally show up in regular school-year courses (in person during the fall and spring semesters) we do not have a program or office of any kind to mentor them or help them navigate the university systems. I'd check on that before just deciding to drop a kid in. If they have trouble academically, how do they get help? Will they need a university ID to enter any buildings, including libraries? Can they use the university transit system, and if so, how? How do they get help with digital systems and processes? Professors often don't have answers to these kinds of questions, and HS students are a lot like young freshmen...who never attended freshman orientation and have no on-campus experience. It's obviously something that can be dealt with, but there is advance planning needed.

Of course they would have IDs if they are students at UMD. All the information is online. Colleges also send out so many emails every week about help for classes especially around finals. You are acting like all information is kept secret, there and hundreds, if not thousands, of pages of information on the UMD website.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you know anything about Concurrent Enrollment at UMD?
The website says HS seniors can take 2 courses per semester at UMD.

It may be a way to get access to advanced courses not available in MC Dual Enrollment, for students who logistics
ally can't attend a magnet HS.

But it's in person, so may be impractically to commute to during school year.

https://admissions.umd.edu/persona/prospective-students

https://sofia.umd.edu/sofia/concurrent

What advanced classes are you talking about. It isn’t like you can take a 300 level biology class right away. Montgomery college has most of the prerequisites for the advanced classes. It would not make sense to turn down a free program just to take basically the same class at UMD.

Math and Computer Science, mainly. SMACS magnet has more advanced courses that aren't available at other schools. MC doesn't have these courses; they have an offering of more applied/career-oriented courses.

[Anonymous]

As a UMD parent, I haven’t heard of this program. I mean this kindly. Ask yourself if your child is ready to navigate the UMD campus and to self-advocate with professors. I have one UMD grad and one rising UMD junior. One of them took DE at MC and found it helped prepare them for the rigors of college but it was a far gentler experience. Professors/instructors in DE know they are dealing with HS kids. Kids really have to be persistent to reach and get responses from some of the UMD professors. There are few exceptions made if a child needs to make up an exam or misses a deadline. And sometimes my kids have been left hanging when they simply reached out to get clarification on an assignment and this caused considerable stress. It’s not really about their academic readiness but emotional readiness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you know anything about Concurrent Enrollment at UMD?
The website says HS seniors can take 2 courses per semester at UMD.

It may be a way to get access to advanced courses not available in MC Dual Enrollment, for students who logistics
ally can't attend a magnet HS.

But it's in person, so may be impractically to commute to during school year.

https://admissions.umd.edu/persona/prospective-students

https://sofia.umd.edu/sofia/concurrent

What advanced classes are you talking about. It isn’t like you can take a 300 level biology class right away. Montgomery college has most of the prerequisites for the advanced classes. It would not make sense to turn down a free program just to take basically the same class at UMD.

Math and Computer Science, mainly. SMACS magnet has more advanced courses that aren't available at other schools. MC doesn't have these courses; they have an offering of more applied/career-oriented courses.

Again, you can’t just take an advanced college level class right away. You need prerequisites.