Transferring from a Big 3 to a state school

[MNomadic]

I think Zapproximator mentioned in (his/her?) Other thread that they're also doing AP and some community college courses this upcoming year.

I think the most valuable tools for HS would be Dual enrollment courses(most transferrability & closely emulates college level learning pedagogy), followed by AP(also pretty transferrable and cheap). Definitely cool to throw in some CLEPs on the side for some subjects and also, keep them in mind as a backup if you failed a corresponding AP exam(obviously try your best to pass, though).