Northwood Middle College program

[Anonymous]

Yale requires that high school students enrolled as Dual Enrollment students apply as freshmen. https://admissions.yale.edu/transfer-details

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yale requires that high school students enrolled as Dual Enrollment students apply as freshmen. https://admissions.yale.edu/transfer-details

The Northwood students applied to UMD as freshmen too, not transfer students. How they apply is a separate question from how many credits ultimately count toward their degree.
But feel free to keep spitballing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale requires that high school students enrolled as Dual Enrollment students apply as freshmen. https://admissions.yale.edu/transfer-details

The Northwood students applied to UMD as freshmen too, not transfer students. How they apply is a separate question from how many credits ultimately count toward their degree.
But feel free to keep spitballing.

And there's a difference between being dual enrolled and having an AA degree completed. Once an accredited school has accepted the AP credit or the English class that also filled a HS requirement and issued a degree, it's harder for the next school to dismiss.

[Anonymous]

Many colleges offer merit scholarships to freshmen students only, and not transfer students. It's often beneficial for students coming from a dual-enrollment high school to be considered freshmen for admissions purposes so that they can qualify for merit scholarships. After they're accepted and their credits transfer, they can then decide whether or not they will finish college in less than 4 years.

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Anonymous wrote:Here we go: Harvard will NOT give credit for dual enrollment classes counted for credit towards a high school diploma. https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/application-process/transferring-harvard-college/transfer-credits

It's quite possible that Harvard will still accept a dual enrollment graduate if that graduate has taken the most challenging course of study offered at his/her high school.

They also don't take AP credits.

Not eligible for credit

Unfortunately, we are unable to grant credit for certain accomplishments. Typically you will not receive Harvard credits for:

"College Level Placement Exam (CLEP), Advanced Placement Exam (AP/IB) results, or any credit earned by examination"

[Anonymous]

I don't get the appeal of this program. It costs money so doesn't actually save on tuition.

[Anonymous]

lets not get worked up, really how many kids form Northwood make it to college let alone Yale

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get the appeal of this program. It costs money so doesn't actually save on tuition.

My son would rather be in college classes than HS classes and I don't care how much it costs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:lets not get worked up, really how many kids form Northwood make it to college let alone Yale

And how many Northwood grads do you know?? I don't know many but I live in the catchment and every one I do know has gone to college. No surprises, I know them through their parents who also went to college. But it's true the student I know who is at Yale went through a magnet, didn't stay at the home school, but is a product of the feeder ES, so it's all good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get the appeal of this program. It costs money so doesn't actually save on tuition.

My son would rather be in college classes than HS classes and I don't care how much it costs.

So has your son taken both HS APs and MC college classes? I have heard others say APs are higher level. My coworker's son (Loudon County) took CC classes in senior year because he finds them easier than APs and prefers not to have to take the AP tests. He has never gotten 4/5 on them but has always gotten his college credit. He graduated last year and was able to transfer all the credits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:lets not get worked up, really how many kids form Northwood make it to college let alone Yale

And how many Northwood grads do you know?? I don't know many but I live in the catchment and every one I do know has gone to college. No surprises, I know them through their parents who also went to college. But it's true the student I know who is at Yale went through a magnet, didn't stay at the home school, but is a product of the feeder ES, so it's all good.

The year my daughter (now at UMd.) graduated from Northwood, one of her classmates went to Yale (after being accepted at most of the Ivies) and was at Northwood all four years.

And, yes, many students go on to Montgomery College, primarily because of their economic circumstances. This program didn't exist in its present form when my DD was at Northwood, but it sounds like a good way for those whose families aren't in the DCUM demographic to bypass MC after graduation and go on to a four-year school with a lot of credits under their belts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get the appeal of this program. It costs money so doesn't actually save on tuition.

There are an awful lot of people commenting here who know nothing about the program. Or maybe it's just one ignorant person with too much time on her hands.
The cost of the Northwood program over 4 years is about $7,000.
The cost of MC for two years is about $13,000. Tuition if those two years were spent at UMCP would be about $20,000 plus the room and board you would be saving for two years is probably another 20k.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get the appeal of this program. It costs money so doesn't actually save on tuition.

There are an awful lot of people commenting here who know nothing about the program. Or maybe it's just one ignorant person with too much time on her hands.
The cost of the Northwood program over 4 years is about $7,000.
The cost of MC for two years is about $13,000. Tuition if those two years were spent at UMCP would be about $20,000 plus the room and board you would be saving for two years is probably another 20k.

Thanks for the information about the price difference between this program and regular MC.