Guidelines for High School Student Enrollment in the Crafton Hills College Honors Institute - Crafton Hills College

Terminology

Dual Enrollment permits high school students to take college courses.

  • Standard Dual Enrollment: College courses offered to high school students on the Crafton Hills College campus and online.
  • Partnership Courses: College courses offered at a high school but outside the bell schedule.
  • CCAP Courses: College courses offered during the high school bell schedule under specific agreements.


Requirements for Taking a CHC Honors Class as a High School Student

  1. Honors classes are currently offered ONLY on the Crafton Hills College (CHC) campus as face-to-face, hybrid, and asynchronous Standard Dual Enrollment courses. At this time, Honors classes are not offered as Partnership or CCAP Dual Enrollment courses on high school campuses.
  2. High school students who wish to take an Honors class must first apply to and be accepted into the CHC College Honors Institute. To do so, a student must meet the minimum GPA requirement of a cumulative, non-weighted 3.25 GPA. That GPA must be updated each semester a student wishes to take an Honors course before they register for the course. (Example: If a high school student wishes to take an Honors course in spring, they must wait until their fall semester grades have been posted, and the cumulative non-weighted GPA will be used to determine eligibility for the class.)
  3. All Honors students, including high school students, have a community service requirement of 15 hours (projects must be pre-approved by the Honors Coordinator) that must be completed prior to transfer from CHC to a four-year institution to successfully complete the Honors Program. High school students may choose to wait until they are enrolled as regular students at CHC to complete this requirement.
  4. All Honors students, including high school students, must earn participation points each semester. A list of activities that earn participation points will be provided to each student, and updates for participation point opportunities will be provided every Monday in an email and on the Honors Canvas page. (Some of these points can be earned through online activities.)
  5. Honors students do not receive priority registration. Honors students may register for an Honors class during open registration.
  6. High school students applying to the CHC Honors Institute must have junior or senior status.
  7. All students who are enrolled in an Honors course, including high school students, must earn a grade of B or higher to receive Honors credit. A student who receives a grade of C will still earn regular course credit and fulfill transfer requirements, but the course will not be counted as Honors credit.
  8. All students must meet all course pre-requisite(s) to register for a course.

 

Honors and Transfer

While all qualified students are welcome to enroll in an Honors class, the greatest benefits are for high school students planning to attend CHC after graduation. The enhanced transfer advantages from completing the College Honors Institute requirements apply only to students who finish their degree and the Honors Institute requirements at CHC. These benefits do not extend to students who do not complete the Honors Institute or who apply directly to another institution after high school. For example:

  1. The UCLA Transfer Alliance Program (TAP) is an enhanced transfer program specifically designed for California Community College (CCC) transfer students. TAP certification does not apply to high school students even if they have completed the CHC Honors Institute requirements by the time they graduate from high school. These students will still need to apply as freshmen to UCLA. They can, however, indicate on their freshman application that they participated in the Honors Institute. If the high school student continues taking Honors courses at CHC in the year after their high school graduation (and they meet the completion criteria), they may be eligible for TAP and could apply as a transfer student.
  2. Some private universities, such as USC and many of the Ivy League schools, do not accept dual enrollment classes for college credit. This would apply to Honors courses as well.