Students age 16 and older in North Carolina are eligible to take classes at any NC community college under the dual-enrollment program.  This is a marvelous opportunity to earn college credit inexpensively, since the classes are free.  One drawback is that dual-enrollment students cannot enroll until the final day of registration, after the paying students have registered.  In urban areas such as Raleigh and Durham, where there are a large number of homeschoolers, many classes fill up before the final day of registration. Dual enrollment students may only take classes at the 100 level and higher.  They must take a placement test offered by the community college or have SAT or ACT scores ( I'm not sure what the minimum required score is ).  And a student must be taking at least 3 courses at their homeschool.

My 17-yr-old son  is taking 2 classes at Durham Technical Community College this year ~ Spanish I and Statistics I.   We were originally planning on Pre-Calculus, but the sections that fit in our schedule were full, so we decided to do Stats this fall and try to get in Pre-Calc in the spring and next fall. 

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