Greenbrier School District School Advanced Placement (AP) Concurrent Credit Associate of Arts Degree (AA) Information Session

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1 Greenbrier School District School Advanced Placement (AP) Concurrent Credit Associate of Arts Degree (AA) Information Session

2 Blending AP and Concurrent Credit Greenbrier High School offers a blended set AP/Concurrent Credit courses. Blended means that most of the courses offered are both AP and Concurrent Credit courses. Your child can take AP courses for high school credit without being qualified for Concurrent Credit. Both programs will get you college credit, but they are viewed differently and have different routes to that college credit.

3 How do AP and Concurrent Credit Differ? For Concurrent College Credit, you must pre-qualify for the class and then pass the class with at least a C. For AP College Credit, you must take the AP class and the AP exam and make a 3, 4, or 5. *While students taking AP courses for Concurrent Credit do not have to make a 3, 4, or 5 on the AP exam to get credit, they do still have to take the AP exam. Scoring well on the exam will ensure their college credit will transfer better and further.

4 Concurrent Credit Courses Offered AP English 11 (6 Hours) AP English 12 (6 Hours) PAP Pre-Calculus (6 Hours) AP Calculus AB (4 Hours) AP Calculus BC (8 Hours) AP Statistics (3 Hours) AP Chemistry (4 Hours) AP Physics I(4 Hours) AP Physics II (4 Hours) AP Biology (8 Hours) Adv. Anat/Physio (8 Hours) AP World History (6 Hours) AP US History (6 Hours) AP Music Theory (3 Hours) Music Appreciation (3 Hours) Health (3 Hours) Orientation to Teaching (2 Hours) Computer Business Applications (3 Hours) Entrepreneurship (3 Hours) Spanish II (3 Hours) Spanish III (3 Hours) Spanish IV (3 Hours) Personal Finance (3 Hours) Digital Communications III and IV (3 Hours) Psychology (3 Hours) Medical Terminology (3 Hours) Virtual Arkansas Speech (3 Hours) Virtual Arkansas Art Appreciation (3 Hours)

5 How do I qualify for concurrent credit? Requirements for enrollment (Grades 10-12) (9 th grade has a higher Reading score requirement): GPA of at least 3.0 AND ACT Composite of at least 19 Reading score at least 19 English score at least 19 Math score at least 21 OR Accuplacer Reading score at least 78 Accuplacer Sentence Skills score at least 83 Elementary Algebra score at least 80 OR Compass Reading score at least 83 Compass Writing score at least 80 Compass Algebra score at least 45 *9 th Grade students must take all sections of the ACT or Compass exam and have at least a 21 ACT, 86 Accuplacer, or 88 Compass - Reading score. All qualifying scores must be submitted to the counseling office by May 20, 2017 for the school year.

6 Concurrent Credit Score Requirements Composite, Reading, and English scores are required for any concurrent credit course. Math scores are required for concurrent credit math, science, and medical terminology courses.

7 AA Degree Greenbrier High School in partnership with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock is pleased to offer the Associate of Arts degree to GHS students. GHS had 15 AA graduates last year. Currently Greenbrier High School offers 117 hours of concurrent credit courses. Students will be required to complete 60 hours of concurrent credit for the AA degree. There is a specific course plan that must be followed to earn an AA degree.

8 ACT/Compass Exams Upcoming Test Dates ACT: October 28, 2017 December 9, 2017 February 10, 2018 *March 2018 (Free ACT for all GHS Juniors) April 14, 2018 June 9, 2018 July 14, 2018 Accuplacer: The Accuplacer exam will be given at Greenbrier High School and Junior High this spring. The dates are to be determined.

9 Grades and Weighting GPAs Students in blended AP and Concurrent Credit courses will receive weighted credit on the high school GPAs, but unweighted credit on their college GPAs. This means if a student makes a B in an AP/Concurrent Credit course, that would count as an A at the high school and a B at the college. Concurrent Credit courses that are not also AP courses do not receive weighted credit.

10 Fees There is no fee associated with AP courses, but there is a fee for Concurrent Credit courses. UALR charges $50.00 per course at the college level for all Concurrent Credit courses. Several of GHS s courses count as two courses at the college level which means you will be charged $50.00 per semester if your child is participating in the Concurrent Credit program. All fees must be paid directly to UALR by the deadline each semester for your child to be registered for the next semester. The concurrent credit fee will be $ per college level course in the school year.

11 Arkansas Academic Challenge Update The academic eligibility for the Arkansas Challenge Scholarship is now simply an ACT composite score of 19, or an equivalent score.

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