Associate Degrees at TESU

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OK, this confirms what I was thinking. The best bet would be for her to take the cc courses in a traditional way from her high school or possibly on her own when she has the time. She is the one pushing for this and asking about her options every day. She has a wide variety of career interests and all of them indicate many, many years of schooling (med school and becoming a heart surgeon are on her short list!). But while I'll encourage those interests I'm also aware that she hasn't been exposed to the higher math or science courses yet. And she is only 13. At that age my career interests changed every 10 minutes.

I have a 13yo, and he changes his mind on a monthly basis.  He DOES want to go to college though, so we are planning high school with that in mind (as opposed to my 15yo who wants a job "that requires as little college as possible.")

Our local CC has a policy that lets him try to enroll in courses, but the instructor has to agree to it.  I've tried twice, and both said no.  So I kind of gave that up for a little bit.  Your CC might have a similar policy, so don't be surprised if CC is not ready for her yet, even if she's ready for CC!!

If med school is on her list of possibilities, keep in mind that you might want to take science courses at the CC, rather than CLEP'ing out of them.  Some schools won't care, some schools will.