Concurrent Enrollment

Juniors and Seniors may be eligible to take part in concurrent enrollment while still in high school. This means that they can take college courses, either in-person or virtually, during their junior or senior years. Many of our concurrent students take courses at either Seminole State or East Central University, though those are not the only potential options.

Any junior or senior high school student who meets the eligibility requirements and admissions standards can enroll in college classes. When determining eligibility, the ACT composite score without the writing and the SAT composite score without the essay is used. The PreACT and PSAT can also be used for concurrent enrollment.

To enroll in a college course, the student must meet the following score requirements in the subject area in which they are enrolling:

A concurrently enrolled student may enroll in a combined number of high school and college courses per semester not to exceed 19 credit hours. For purposes of calculating workload, one-half high school unit (1 semester of a course) equals three credit hours. Non-academic high school units are excluded from the workload calculation (e.g. office aid, athletics, choir, library aid). Students wishing to exceed these limits may petition the selected higher education institution. A concurrent student who fails to achieve the requisite 2.0 college GPA shall not be eligible for concurrent enrollment at any State System institution.

High school principal or counselor must sign a concurrent approval form from the college or university the student is attending. Students must also have written permission from a parent or legal guardian.

Eligible high school seniors will receive a tuition waiver for a maximum of eighteen (18) credit hours of concurrent enrollment. The senior tuition waiver may be divided over the three senior semesters: summer, fall and spring. Currently, funding is only available for all seniors; however, there are some individual institutions that provide tuition waivers for juniors. High school students are required to pay for course fees, books, supplies, etc.

High schools are required to include concurrent courses on a student’s high school transcript:

• Pursuant to 70 O.S. §628.13 (OSCN 2019), Fiscal Policy for Higher Education, when a student earns college credit through concurrent enrollment, school districts shall provide academic credit for any concurrently enrolled higher education courses that are correlated with the academic credit awarded by the institution of higher education. Academic credit shall only be transcribed as elective credit if there is no correlation between the concurrent enrollment higher education course and a course provided by the school district.

Local districts make policy regarding concurrent enrollment issues.