Advance College Project - Advising Students in Course Selection

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Advising Students in Course Selection

In advising students selecting ACP courses, counselors and teachers should consult the ACP Course List and ACP Course Descriptions for information about:

what courses are available in the high school
additional course requirement information
how particular ACP courses fulfill the graduation requirements at Indiana University (IU)

This information appears in the Student Guide as well, but ACP believes that counselors and teachers need to interpret this information for interested students and carefully advise them to select ACP courses that will benefit their intended college majors.

Students who scored 670 or better on the SAT or 22 or better on the ACT may qualify for an exemption from basic composition at IU Bloomington. For more details, visit the Exemption from English W131 page.

The information about Transfer of ACP Credit will help in advising students who intend to matriculate at colleges or universities other than IU.

Counselors and teachers are reminded that regularly enrolled, full time IU students are considered to be carrying a full course load if they register for 12 to 17 hours in a semester (3 or 4 courses). Many high school students applying for ACP coursework are heavily involved in extracurricular activities, hold part-time jobs, fulfill responsibilities in church and community organizations, and take from 3 to 4 high school academic courses in addition to their ACP coursework. Such students should be advised against taking more than 2 or 3 ACP courses in any one semester. The additional preparation and difficulty of a college course requires that counselors and students plan carefully to ensure that the student will be successful in learning the course material.

When a student subsequently matriculates to IU with a GPA below 2.0 (C) in the ACP coursework, the University Division will send the student a letter shortly after the start of their first full semester at IU warning the student about their academic status. For that reason, counselors and teachers should advise any student not judged capable of completing an ACP course with at least a C or better not to take the ACP course for college credit. Similarly, counselors and teachers are advised to caution students to do their best in ACP courses to avoid entering the university with a GPA below the minimum required 2.0.

In addition, counselors and teachers advising students about taking an ACP course should always tell students before they enter the course that college-level textbooks are required and the cost for purchasing or renting these texts may run more than the regular high school text.