Dual Credit

Dual Credit Spring 2025 Enrollment Information:

Questions?  Contact Brian Reeves at breeves@farmington.k12.mo.us

You will register in your dual credit classes at FHS the week of January 14-17.  Please know your MAC ID and Password.

1) Link to Instructions on how to register for MAC Dual Credit for Spring 2025--Deadline is  to register is January 29. Payment deadline is May  1, 2025.  Cost is $60 per credit hour.

Link to how to apply to  MAC

Link to Instructions for Finding Your MAC ID, Password, & email

2) Link to Missouri Baptist University Early College Website to Register: MBU's Spring 2025 registration deadline is January 29.  MBU presentation will be January 21. Payment deadline is April 15.  Cost is $70 per credit hour.

3) If you are planning on taking college dual credit or dual enrollment courses through Mineral Area College, you will need to: a) apply online to Mineral Area College at this link:  b) Have either an ACT score on file or accuplacer test scores in reading for most classes, writing for Comp I and Comp II, and a math accuplacer for all math courses; c) the cost of an accuplacer is $10 for one test, $15 for two tests, and $20 for three tests.  If you are new to dual credit courses, I recommend that you take all three tests (reading, writing, math).  The tests are not timed.  Please email Dr. Reeves at breeves@farmington.k12.mo.us to schedule a test. Please see this flyer for 2024-25 group accuplacer test dates.

4) Here are step by step instructions for finding out your MAC email, ID, and password MAC: Please click here or watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUffBT1J58E  To access MyMac, Mineral Area College's learning management system, please click here at this link

5) Link to Dual Credit Powerpoint presentation with hyperlinks

6) Link to Test scores required for Mineral Area College courses

1. What is Dual Credit: Dual credit means that you receive college credit for courses that are taught during the day at our high school. The cost of a dual credit course is $60 per credit hour. Most of the courses are three credit hours, so that means that one three hour course will cost $180. 

2. How do I sign up for dual credit? To sign up for dual credit through Mineral Area College, you need to do the following steps. 

   1. First, you will need to pick up a dual credit form from me in counseling center at Farmington High School. Fill out the form, mark the courses that you want to take, and make sure that the course you want to take and are already on your high school schedule. 

   2. Second, you may need to fill out an online Mineral Area College High School Dual Enrollment Admissions Application if you have not previously taken coursework through MAC. It is available online at the MAC website under the admissions tab or my clicking here under "high school dual enrollment." 

   3. Third, you will need to have taken a standardized test such as the ACT or Accuplacer to qualify for dual credit through MAC.  For most MAC college classes, you will need a qualifying ACT reading score of 18 or better. For English Comp I you will need an English ACT score of 18 or better while Math scores vary according to the course. The required scores are listed on this link.  If you haven’t already taken the ACT, you can always take the Accuplacer either at FHS or MAC.  To take at Farmington High School, please schedule a test by emailing Brian Reeves at breeves@farmington.k12.mo.us.  

3. Why take college credit classes while in high school?

   1. Practice and Preparation. The “power of 15”---students who leave high school with 15 college credit hours are twice as likely to graduate from a four year university. 

   2. Make sure that your student graduates in four years or eight semesters. Most scholarships/financial aid packages are only for eight semesters. 60% of bachelor degree students take six years to earn their four year degree. 

   3. Cost: MAC is $60 per credit hour. The University of Missouri is $335

   4. Farmington High School Scholarship---To qualify, students need to earn a composite score 21 on the ACT. For dual credit classes only at FHS for a total of 15 credit hours (15 total hours Fall and Spring Semesters only) qualifying students pay $30 per credit hour.

   5. Opportunities for internships, study abroad, major changes 

4. What my student needs to be doing right now if he/she wants to take dual credit in the future?

   1. Take the ACT

   2. Important ACT scores:

      1. Farmington Scholarship: 21 ACT Composite (average of Reading, Math, English, and Science sections). No application needed, just an ACT on file with FHS. 

      2. Farmington High School ACT Code: 261050

      3. 18 Reading score needed for virtually all dual credit classes

      4. 22 Math score baseline score needed for many dual credit Math courses