Dual Enrollment Procedures & Policies
Dual Enrollment is a great way to dip your toe into more advanced classes, while you’re still in high school. You can take a college course AND it counts toward your high school course of study also.
Some colleges allow you to audit the class, so it doesn’t count for college credit. Some programs offer certificates that can be accepted by the college, similar to a CLEP or AP exams. Colleges often issue the letter grade on their final transcripts. These differences can matter with the SC Uniform Grade Scale calculations.
SC TOP needs to see your grade reports from the institution in order to verify we are listing the courses correctly on our transcripts. You or your student should be able to access a grade report without paying additional fees for a secure delivery platform (such as Parchment).
Enrolling Procedures: As you’re applying to the college, there are some documents that you will need gather. SC TOP can assist with these documents.
- Transcripts and/or Report Cards.
- Previous members should have a DRAFT ONLY copy of the formatted transcript. Request finalized draft at [email protected] before submitting it to the college.
- New Members, request assistance formatting your transcript for an added fee.
- School Verification Form. The college usually has a form for the association to sign verifying the student is ready for advanced classes. Submit a Help Desk request or email [email protected] for assistance with the forms.
- Test Scores. For placement purposes, the college wants to verify the student will be successful in the classes that you select. If you have ACT or SAT scores, those can be used for admissions consideration. But, if you do not have any test scores, the college offers an accuplacer test that can be done instead.
Selecting Courses: As you’re choosing classes, consider what will be the best for your student’s goals after graduation. If you want some additional feedback about the course selections, contact [email protected]
- If you know the degree program and/or the specific institution that you’ll attend. Choose classes that will go toward the Gen Ed requirements for the degree field. If the course transfers, does it transfer into the specific degree program?
- If you are not sure of the degree field or not even sure if you’ll seek higher learning. Choose classes that dabble in what the college experience is like or what the student’s interests might lead to a career path.
- Be aware that course titles may correlate to the next progression needed. For example: if you’re needing a 4th higher Math.
- The high school course title recommended may be Precalculus or Calculus. But, those courses are advanced 200 level classes. The jump in difficulty may affect the student’s grade and it may not even transfer into the degree program.
- So a Basic/Intermediate College Algebra course may be covering essentially similar content as the high school course you did, but the credit counts as a higher progression for high school. AND is more likely going to fulfill the course requirements toward the degree program.
- Be careful not to academically overload your student. Dual Credits are not necessary if your student is not ready.
Verifying Grades for Transcript Assistance Services: We need to see the grade reports in order to be sure we’re listing the details correctly. Each institution has different policies/procedures about obtaining the grade reports. Usually the STUDENT has to request, not the parent.
We need Course Number Code, Course Title and NUMBER grade earned. Along with the name of the institution where the grade came from and date when the course was completed. For example: Midlands Tech; ENG 101: English Composition 1; 93/A Fall 2026
- We prefer that the parent collect the grade reports from the college. Then you can upload the verification documents with the transcript request form at the end of the year.
- Some colleges prefer to send the grade reports to our offices instead. Some colleges send us the grade reports for all the students from SC TOP in one spreadsheet, so they won’t release it any of the parents.
- Preferred email contact: [email protected]
For Midlands Tech, there’s a difference between the official grade report and the official transcript. The student should be able to request the official grade report at no additional charge:
Midlands Tech: Grade Report
Includes course section, course title and number grade with credit hours
Should not cost additional fee to request this file.
Kari McLeod: [email protected] or Records Office: [email protected]
Midlands Tech: Transcript If it’s delivered thru Parchment server, you’ll be charged for added fee. The verification that we need should not cost added fees.
Upload the documents with your transcript assistance request form. Please plug in the details into the fields as well. If you want to file the documents before submitting the transcript assistance request or if you forgot to upload the documents with the form you already submitted, use the transcript update form instead.
