Greenbrier School District SchoolAdvanced Placement (AP)

Concurrent CreditAssociate of Arts Degree (AA)

Information Session 2020-2021

GHS Counseling Website

https://ghs.greenbrierschools.org/26579_1

GHS Course Catalog https://s3.amazonaws.com/scschoolfiles/1317/ghs_course_catalog_2019_-_2020_2.pdf

Graduation Plan

Blending AP and Concurrent Credit

• Greenbrier High School offers a blended set AP/Concurrent Credit courses.– Blended means that most of the courses offered

are both AP and Concurrent Credit courses.

– Your child can take AP courses for high school credit without being qualified for Concurrent Credit.

– Both programs will get you college credit, but they are viewed differently and have different routes to that college credit.

How do AP and Concurrent Credit Differ?

• For Concurrent College Credit, you must pre-qualify for the class and then pass the class with at least a C.

• For AP College Credit, you must take the AP class and and make a 3, 4, or 5 on the AP exam.

• *While students taking AP courses for Concurrent Credit do not have to make a 3, 4, or 5 on the AP exam to get credit, they do still have to take the AP exam. Scoring well on the exam will ensure their college credit will transfer better and further.

Concurrent Credit Courses Offered• AP English 11 (6 Hours)• AP English 12 (6 Hours)• PAP Pre-Calculus (6 Hours)• AP Calculus AB (4 Hours)• AP Calculus BC (8 Hours)• AP Statistics (3 Hours)• AP Chemistry (4 Hours)• AP Physics I (4 Hours)• AP Physics II (4 Hours)• AP Physics C (4 Hours)• Microbiology (4 Hours)• AP Biology (8 Hours)• Adv. Anat/Physio (8 Hours)• AP World History (6 Hours)• AP US History (6 Hours)• AP Music Theory (3 Hours)• Virtual Arkansas – Speech (3 Hours)

• Music Appreciation (3 Hours)• Health (3 Hours)• Orientation to Teaching I (1 Hours)• Orientation to Teaching II (3 Hours)• Computer Business Applications

(3 Hours)• Entrepreneurship (3 Hours)• Spanish II (3 Hours)• Spanish III (3 Hours)• Spanish IV (3 Hours)• Personal Finance (3 Hours)• Social Media (3 Hours)• Psychology (3 Hours)• Medical Terminology (3 Hours)• Virtual Arkansas – Art Appreciation (3

Hours)

How do I qualify for concurrent credit?Requirements for enrollment (Grades 10-12) (9th grade has a higher Reading score requirement):• GPA of at least 3.0

• AND

– ACT Composite of at least 19 – Reading score at least 19– English score at least 19– Math score at least 21

• OR

– Accuplacer Next Generation Reading score at least 255– Accuplacer Next Generation Writing score at least 261– Accuplacer Next Generation Algebra score at least 256

• OR

– Accuplacer Reading score at least 78– Accuplacer Sentence Skills score at least 83– Elementary Algebra score at least 80

*9th Grade students must take all sections of the ACT or Compass exam and have at least a 21 ACT or Accuplacer Reading score.

All qualifying scores must be submitted to the counseling office by May 15, 2020 for the 2020-21 school year.

Concurrent Credit Score Requirements

• Composite, Reading, and English scores are required for any concurrent credit course.

• Math scores are required for concurrent credit math, science, and medical terminology courses.

ACT/Accuplacer Exams

• Upcoming Test Dates– ACT:

– *February 25, 2020 (Free ACT for all GHS Juniors)

– April 4, 2020

– June 13, 2020

– July 18, 2020

– Accuplacer:• The Accuplacer exam will be given at Greenbrier High

School and Junior High this spring. Your child can take the Accuplacer exam at a local college if they miss the onsite testing or need to retest.

AA Degree• Greenbrier High School in partnership with the

University of Arkansas at Little Rock is pleased to offer the Associate of Arts degree to GHS students.

• GHS had 30 AA graduates last year. • Currently Greenbrier High School offers 127 hours

of concurrent credit courses.• Students will be required to complete 60 hours of

concurrent credit for the AA degree.• There is a specific course plan that must be

followed to earn an AA degree.

Grades and Weighting GPAs

• Students in blended AP and Concurrent Credit courses will receive weighted credit on the high school GPAs, but unweighted credit on their college GPAs.

– This means if a student makes a B in an AP/Concurrent Credit course, that would count as an A at the high school and a B at the college.

• Concurrent Credit courses that are not also AP courses do not receive weighted credit.

FeesThere is no fee associated with AP courses, but there is a fee for Concurrent Credit courses.

• UA Little Rock charges $100.00 per course at the college level for all Concurrent Credit courses. – Several of GHS’s courses count as two courses at the

college level which means you will be charged $100.00 per semester if your child is participating in the Concurrent Credit program.

• All fees will be paid to GHS and GHS will pay UA Little Rock.

AP Program: The impact of AP credit and placement on the college experience

Questions?