Dual Enrollment
Please contact the Dual Enrollment Advisors with questions that are not answered by this page.
Your best option is to attend meetings held on campus for dual enrollment information.
(This information is for Northeast Alabama Community College.)
Dual enrollment tech scholarships: If the student qualifies for the dual enrollment tech scholarship, they choose a tech course and it pays for both the tech course and one core course (see Northeast’s website for list of core courses). Parents or students must pay for books or codes for each course. Only one dual enrollment tech scholarship is offered at a time.
If you wish to do more than one dual enrollment course, you can, you’d just have to pay for the courses and books not covered under the tech scholarship. There are students graduating high school with their associate’s degree.
High school transcripts must come from the cover school, please check with your District Coordinator about getting yours.
Tenth grade is when dual enrollment starts, but the summer after 9th grade is a possibility. You can find out at the on campus meetings being offered.
If the student doesn’t take the ACT, they’ll take a math/English placement test. The better they do on those two subjects, the more likely they won’t have to take remedial courses. This saves parents money. Students who are proficient in Math and English will have a definite advantage. On the placement tests, the more they get correct, the harder they become until the student can’t answer any more correct.
For dual enrollment: If they take an ACT test and score low, they can take the college placement test for math/English and they’ll be placed using whichever is the higher score. In order to take English 101 or math 112 in dual enrollment, students must place high enough on the college placement test, or if using an ACT, must score 18 or above on English, and 20 or above on math. Please note, if remedial courses in English or math are needed (per the testing or ACT scores), these courses won’t qualify for dual enrollment. The student would have to take the remedial courses and pass them in order to be able to take the English and math courses that are used for dual enrollment credits. Again, having your students proficient in math and English could very well save parents money in the long run.
Dual enrollment credits earned count as both college and high school credit. They transfer to most larger schools and never expire.
ACT prep courses are offered at Northeast and as of now are free (but not for Dual Enrollment students, only regularly enrolled students). The website act.org will list when and where ACT tests are being administered. Please note if tests are being given at a public school, your student may take the test there and enrollment at a public school isn’t necessary to take the test.
Northeast’s website has PDF links for all dual enrollment forms and applications, as well as a handbook on dual enrollment. Staci Miller is the contact person for dual enrollment at extension 2225. Contact Staci in early May to find out when meetings are for fall classes.