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Anyone tried Penn Foster for High Schoolers?
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We homeschool and my daughter is just about done with her high school requirements. She's only 15, so I'm not quite ready to let her graduate. She wants to study interior design and she was interested in the Penn Foster program. Has anyone gotten them to allow a high school student to do dual enrollment?
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msganti just graduated from Penn Foster High School, he may want to go for an associate and a bachelor from Penn Foster or go to another school, if I recall correctly, Penn Foster High School is regionally accredited and the Penn Foster College is Nationally Accredited. Note: He already holds a Bachelors degree from an Indian institution

msganti originally took the high school courses along with his daughter, but since his family moved back to India and daughter recently married, she's going to be doing an online/distance education within India instead. I am not sure if he will continue with a US education after High School, he may/may not.

If you're (your daughter) going to the high school, it will be recognized just like any other private/public high school, if she wants to continue onwards, I would suggest going to another Regionally Accredited college/university when done with High School. Penn Foster allows up to 15 credits from the "high school" transferred into their Associates/Bachelors degree, but that would still be a Nationally Accredited degree and not a Regionally Accredited one.

In regards to dual enrollment, is your daughter looking to graduate high school and college at the same time with an Associates, or even better, with a Bachelors? If so, you may want to forgo Penn Foster altogether. I suggest continuing with the homeschool option and getting credit through CLEP/DSST, ACE/NCCRS means - Saylor/Shmoop/Straighterline/Study.com, maybe even a bit of Davar.
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I’m not interested in the high school option. She’s got plenty of high school credits, but she’s really too young to go to college yet. She’s super artistic and she really wants to try out interior design. The goal isn’t necessarily to finish quickly (we went that route with my older, more type A kiddo) it’s to let her explore her gifts and interests - to keep her learning in a way that feeds her natural curiosity.
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(11-28-2017, 07:47 PM)Soonersiren Wrote: I’m not interested in the high school option. She’s got plenty of high school credits, but she’s really too young to go to college yet. She’s super artistic and she really wants to try out interior design. The goal isn’t necessarily to finish quickly (we went that route with my older, more type A kiddo) it’s to let her explore her gifts and interests - to keep her learning in a way that feeds her natural curiosity.

If this is the case, then I would just contact them and start.  Since she's probably not going for a degree through them, a course here or there is a great idea.

The only issue you may have there is that it is NA, so she won't be able to transfer credits to an RA college if she goes that route later on.

I'm tempted to see if my daughter can take that same course there!  She is also artistic, and is thinking about ID, so this is a great option for her.  Let us know what they say.
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Thanks bjcheung77 for my introduction :-)

Soonersiren - I don't see any high school graduation requirement for their individual courses, but I am not sure if they are worth $320 a course (I don't think they have any special rates for high school students). You may want to check community and 4-year schools in your state, which will either be free or have special rates for dual enrollment. If you decide to go with PennFoster, please make sure the courses she takes are ACE evaluated. You can find the list here:
http://www2.acenet.edu/credit/?fuseactio...ICE=191627
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(11-28-2017, 05:15 PM)Soonersiren Wrote: We homeschool and my daughter is just about done with her high school requirements. She's only 15, so I'm not quite ready to let her graduate. She wants to study interior design and she was interested in the Penn Foster program. Has anyone gotten them to allow a high school student to do dual enrollment?

I'm not 100% sure that PF allows dual enrollment- but if they do, it is my strongest recommendation that the courses you guys choose are also ACE evaluated for college credit. PF's high school accreditation is irrelevant to the discussion since you homeschool and will be the issuer of her diploma. What is relevant is their college accreditation for the purposes of future transfer and or employment. They only hold national accreditation (lower than regional) so the courses she takes may work 100% for her career while not being useful for college, or vice-versa. Here is where you can look up the list of courses that are ACE evaluated:
(p.s. check the dates too, some courses used to be accredited and are not anymore)
http://www2.acenet.edu/credit/?fuseaction=browse.main
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Interior design is fairly specialized and I'm not sure you're likely to find something regionally accredited or ACE-evaluated that also meets your other needs. But keep in mind that she may be able to use it for portfolio-evaluated credit later.

How close is your daughter to 16? I imagine the laws on this vary by state, but I was able to take my GED at 16 because I was homeschooled, and that let us avoid jumping through the hoops my community college wanted in order for me to take a class. I still went on to do two more years of high school and graduate with a diploma, but in the meantime, I was a "graduate" as far as the college was concerned, so they let me enroll. Would something like that be a possibility?
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Our local CC has an Interior Design degree, although only the first course is online. No idea how much it costs if you're not in-state, but it certainly can't be the only school out there with classes.
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After I posted, I thought more about this. Something else to consider, it's not TERRIBLE to have credit that is nationally accredited when it meets the need of career training. If you think that the PF diploma or degree is enough, then it might be enough. In other words, there are a lot of times when the training is the training- whether or not it transfers to a 4 year degree is irrelevant. If that's the case here, or if you just want to give her DIY dual enrollment (she can worry about RA college credit later) then do it! Not everything has to be worth college credit.
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(11-28-2017, 05:15 PM)Soonersiren Wrote: We homeschool and my daughter is just about done with her high school requirements. She's only 15, so I'm not quite ready to let her graduate. She wants to study interior design and she was interested in the Penn Foster program. Has anyone gotten them to allow a high school student to do dual enrollment?

Soonersiren,

I just enrolled in one of their ACE evaluated H.R courses (thanks Sanantone) they had checkbox requirement that I had a had a highschool diploma or a GED
it's worded like this

"Course Requirements (please confirm you meet the requirements by checking the boxes below):
X YES, I hereby certify that I have completed High School or have a GED.
Your name as it appears on diploma or GED_______________Date Received: ________
Name/address of your High School (if applicable): 
X YES, I understand that pre-requisites courses and proctored exams may be required in certain courses.
X YES, I understand that Penn Foster College Courses are offered online only and that communications relating to my Course(s) will typically be made via email, text or telephone (including autodialing) and I confirm that I have the telephone and high speed internet access necessary to participate in and complete the Course(s) I have selected and receive such Course communications. "


This looks like they need you to graduate before setting off into a diploma or carrer track, obviously this is for an individual course but I'm sure the same applies. Please note that they don't have the greatest customer service reputation and the amount of voicemail connections I got trying to enroll was a bit of a pain. They have a payment plan option but credit transcripts are tied to paying you bill in full so better to go with the full price option. It isn't cheap either but certainly fills a requirement for me that is of interest and relevant to my current job.
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