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Early college programs aim to close the academic gap between high school and college education, especially for first-generation and low-income students. Through these programs, high school students can enroll in college level classes, usually on campus, and earn credits that apply to their college degree and high school diploma.
Two Randomized Control Trials of the Early College High Schools were conducted by the teams at the Early College Research Center [13] at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2006 - ongoing) and the American Institutes for Research (2010-2013 and 2021- 2024).
In 2021, the average SAT score was 1452 of 1600, again the highest of all North Carolina public high schools. [13] The Early College at Guilford was ranked #1 nationally by U.S. News & World Report in 2023; that year, it was also placed as the best public school in North Carolina and the #9 STEM school in the United States.
A college admissions program popular among the country’s most selective universities may actually be skewed against lower-income applicants, college consultants and experts say.
The Collaborative College for Technology and Leadership (CCTL) is an early college High School program in Iredell County, North Carolina. Founded in 2005, CCTL has been recognized as a school for "Innovation and Excellence," a distinction given to only 16 schools in North Carolina. It received the Apple Distinguished School Award in 2016.
Wake Early College of Health and Sciences High School (more commonly known as Wake Early College or WECHS) is a small high school program (grades 9–13, with up to one year of post-secondary education) located on two Wake Tech sites: the Health Sciences Campus and the North Campus, both in Raleigh, North Carolina. The school provides five ...
Early entrance to college, sometimes called early admission or early enrollment, is the practice of allowing students to be accelerated into college, one or more years before the traditional age of college entrance, and without obtaining a high school diploma. In some cases this is done individually.
The Macon Early College high school is part of the early college program. It is located next to the Macon County branch of Southwestern Community College and Macon County's public library in Franklin, NC. Southwestern Community College is a partner to Macon Early College in that college courses are taken as a student of both schools.