1. Dual Enrollment Sonoraville High School

2. Dual Enrollment is a 2 for 1

3. Advantages Provides an early start on their college courses.
Provides early college opportunities for students to try who normally would not attend college.
Students have flexible scheduling opportunities because courses can be taken anytime. 
Saves money because college tuition and expenses are fully or mostly paid.

4. Disadvantages Courses may or may not transfer between colleges.
Colleges may prefer AP courses over dual enrollment courses.
Transportation must be provided by the student/parent.
High schools and parents have limited access to student’s college grades.

5. Who is eligible? Be a high school student (mostly 11th and 12th)
Meet college’s admission requirements
Qualifying GPA in core curriculum
Qualifying entrance exam scores
Miscellaneous requirements
Meet local system requirements.
Be on track to graduate and maintain satisfactory academic progress towards meeting high school graduation requirements.

6. About Dual Enrollment Cost: Interested students should:
GA Student Finance Commission (GSFC) pays for up to 15 hours/semester
Hours do not count against the cap for HOPE
Student pays all costs not covered.
Interested students should:
Take the SAT or ACT or ACCUPLACER by March
Apply to the college
Requires students to be responsible, dependable and have good time management skills.

7. Schools most commonly attended by SHS students:
Georgia Northwestern Technical College
Georgia Highlands College
Dalton State College
Chattahoochee Technical College

8. Where Do I Start?
STEP 1: Take the SAT or the ACT or the ACCUPLACER by the college’s testing deadline. (Be sure to sign up for the testing organization to send your scores to the college.)
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9. Where Do I Start?
STEP 2: Apply to the college where you would like to take DE courses.
It is the responsibility of the student to be aware of deadlines.
Apply as a Dual Enroll/MOWR student.
Send official test scores (ACT/SAT-sent directly from test organization).
Complete MOWR Student Participation Agreement Form (form completed with counselor).

10. Where Do I Start?
STEP 3: Meet with your school counselor for required paperwork and final approval.

11. Courses
Students are required to take classes on the approved dual course list from GADOE:
Full Time College Status vs Part Time College Status
Part time status is a minimum of 6 classes between SHS & college.
Full time status is a minimum of 12 course hours and a maximum of 15 hours all taken on the college campus.
A 3 hr college course (1 sem) = 1 SHS (2 sem)
ex: student is required to take only 1 semester of English at the college to equal 2 semesters of English at SHS.
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12. Courses offered at SHS through GNTC
English 1101/1102
Fulfills senior English requirement
Economics 1101
Fulfills senior social studies requirement
Online
College Algebra/Pre-Calculus
Fulfills 4th math requirement
Psychology
Online
Elective course
Speech
At GCCCA

13. Courses Offered at SHS through Chattahoochee Tech
CNA Certification
Must have completed the health care pathway
Fall Semester:
Medical terminology (online)
Diet and Nutrition (online)
Spring Semester:
Clinicals

14. Grading Colleges use letter grades A=95 B=85 C=75 D=70 Weighted GPA
+10 points is added to dual credit courses for calculating academic weighted percent and HOPE GPA
Duplicated high school credits (if allowed) will transfer to the high school as elective credit

15. DO THIS EVERY SEMESTER:
MOWR is now
Click on
Dual Enrollment

16. To view the Course Directory to see what courses are available for a student to take
at a particular college click on the link below and follow the following slides
Course Directory

17. Course Directory

18. See a counselor for more information
To search for a college course that is approved for MOWR and to check the correlated high school course, click on the drop down menus.
Course numbers CAN NOT be the same number that the student has already earned credit for.
See a counselor for more information
2018 or 2019
Fall or Spring
Subject (optional)
For Technical College
For Public College

19. Thank you! Priscilla Powers - SHS Maggie Jackson - GHP
9th & 10th grade counselor
Maggie Jackson - GHP
Stephanie Caudell - SHS
11th & 12th grade counselor
Jessica Nguyen - GNTC