ADMISSIONS

OWCC has special concurrent enrollment programs to provide a means for educational acceleration for academically superior high school students. These have evolved into the following admission categories (maximum of 7 semester hours in concurrent and/or dual credit, except under unusual and nonrecurring circumstances):

1. Concurrent Enrollment is available on the Niceville campus or at any center of the college for persons enrolling in noncredit courses and credit courses which do not apply toward their high school diploma provided for under provisions of part-time dual credit. Students enrolled in these courses pay standard college application, registration, laboratory and special tuition fees where applicable. Credits earned under this enrollment category count only for college degree-credit purposes and do not carry simultaneous high school unit credits (See paragraph B for simultaneous credit options). Criteria to be applied for students taking courses on the Niceville campus or at one of the college centers while concurrently enrolled with their own high schools are as follows:
   1. Principal's recommendation for participation in courses for which fees must be paid.
   2. Candidates must be high school students (grades 10 through 12 whose grades averaged 2.0 or higher in grades 9 through 11 along with the authorization by their high school principal. Grade point average is not applicable for enrollment in noncredit courses).
   3. Students may enroll at the college for a maximum of seven (7) semester hours of college credit work or fifteen (15) contact hours per week of noncredit courses each semester.
   4. Students must comply with all rules and regulations of the college and must maintain a "C" average or better. Substandard academic performance at the college or failure to comply with college rules and policies will result in the enforced withdrawal of the student from the program. Enrollment at the college should in no way jeopardize completion of regular high school work.
   5. A student's academic work at the college will be validated only upon graduation from high school, whether or not enrollment at the college is continued.
   6. Any student enrolled under these provisions will be required to sign a statement that he or she understands that the college credits earned while simultaneously enrolled in high school are not necessarily transferable to any college in Florida or elsewhere in the United States until after their validation by the College Registrar. (See item 5).

2. Part-time Dual Credit Enrollment is a special program designed for public and private high school students in Okaloosa and Walton counties who meet the eligibility criteria specified in their school's governing articulation agreement. Dual credit classes may be offered during and after normal high school class hours, on-site in high school facilities, and in other regularly scheduled college classes within the two-county district served by OWCC. The agreements between OWCC and the public and private schools in Okaloosa and Walton Counties are coordinated through the office of the Vice President for Instruction at the college and the offices of the superintendents of the respective school systems. These persons, or their designees, work cooperatively with college department chairs and school principals in the implementation of this program.

   Criteria to be applied for students taking courses for high school/college credit are as follows:

   1. Students shall:
      1. be classified as secondary students as approved in the College-School System Dual Credit Agreements,
      2. have a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher on all academic coursework beginning with Grade 9 through current high school grading period (or have permission of the high school principal), and
      3. be recommended by the principal of their own high school.