Dual Enrollment

I now have a college student...and a high school senior...all wrapped up in one. Kathryn finally got her ACT scores back and, despite being denied accommodations, she beat the minimum acceptance scores for admission to Piedmont! whoo HOO! It was really nice finding out too because Lee, the son of a college friend of ours, who is an admission counselor for Piedmont called Kathryn personally on her cell phone and congratulated her on her acceptance into the dual enrollment program. Talk about personal service!

[Dual Enrollment (a.k.a joint enrollment)- the process of a high school junior or senior attending and taking college level courses to receive credit in both institutions. Thereby getting high school credit and college credit simultaneously.]

No need say we were very happy! Kathryn will earn 12 college credits this year! After the official acceptance letter came in the mail we marked on the calendar the dates to go up for pre-registration and all the fun administrative stuff.


Notice her folder with all the pertinent paperwork etc.inside.

Luckily Emily had also been accepted months earlier because she took her SAT ages ago (We're slackers what can I say? Slackers and at the mercy of the whole accommodation scam. Bleh! :-P) Anyway.... Kathryn and Emily went to the pre-registration day and got their schedules, IDs and parking passes...



...they are full fledged co-eds now!



Shortly after all the pre-registration excitement the first day of class was upon us. Now, you must understand, Piedmont is an hour's drive away. The girl's first class is at 9:00, which means they need to hit the road around 7:45 a.m. to get up to school, parked and over to their class room. That means Kathryn has to leave our house at 7:15 a.m. to meet up with Em at 7:45 a.m., which means Kathryn has to get up around 5:45 a.m. to get showered, tame her hair and perform other cosmological feats of daring do to herself. Five. Forty-five. A. M. We are so NOT morning people this is killing us!

For years we have laughed at the poor public school kids that have to get up at this ridiculous time of the morning to get to school at an inhumane time every day...*sigh* Karma is a b!#$%. But I must say, for the first day of classes, both girls were looking quite chipper and perky.


Back when Kathryn was in private school, every year we would take her picture on the first day of school by the front door. For a few years there it was quite amusing to see the rapid growth as gauged by the constant of the front door. So here is the obligatory first day of school front door shot.


The girls met up at Em's house to follow each other to school since their licenses are still restricted to driving family members only. (They can carpool in the same car in another couple weeks.) We were just amused at their clothing choices. They did not consult each other about their choice prior to that morning. They just did it. Independently. More proof that they share the same brain! ;-)


Aaahhh, the obligatory Charlie's Angels pose, sans the third angel.

So my little co-ed has been going to classes a few weeks now. She has had to turn in a paper and a few unrelated paragraphs in English and has taken a test in Stats and actually did pretty good. She's doing okay. I'm just going nuts because the whole spreading out of the work and doing stuff as soon its assigned hasn't sunk in yet. While I'd love to let her fail for the sake of learning that concept, I can't. These classes will actually count toward her college GPA and credit so I don't want to sabotage that. I just can't figure out how to get through to her how important it is. I can make her do the work when I say, but until she internalizes it and comes to the realization on her own, it is simply a battle of wills and real learning has not occurred and wisdom has not been gained. Oh well, we have a whole year...maybe by May it will have taken hold.