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AP/Dual Enrollment

College In High School

The Purchase Line School District is honored to be able to provide parents/guardians and students the College in High School program. This program allows students an opportunity to take courses in the Purchase Line School District while earning college credit from either Pennsylvania Highlands Community College, Saint Francis, or Mount Aloysius at a greatly reduced cost per credit. Earned college credits may be transferable to many colleges and universities. Please take a minute to peruse this site to get up-to-date information about this great opportunity.

 
Partnerships

Purchase Line School District is working in conjunction with Mount Aloysius, Saint Francis, and Pennsylvania Highlands Community College to offer college credit for pre-qualified high school courses at a greatly reduced tuition rate. Your child may qualify if they are enrolled in the courses indicated below.

  • Mount Aloysius College
    • Students enrolled in the Probability and Statistics (MATH 220), Physics (PHYS 103), Anatomy & Physiology (BIOL 201), Civil War Studies (HIST 281), Advanced Biology (BIOL 101) and Advanced Math/Trigonometry (MATH 112) courses at Purchase Line may opt to take these courses for Mount Aloysius credit.  Students must follow the college’s application process for college course enrollment
  •  Saint Francis University
    • Students enrolled in the Probability and Statistics (STATS 101), Calculus (MATH 112), Physics (PHYSICS 104), Anatomy & Physiology (BIO 105), Advanced Math/Trigonometry (MATH 110), AP English (WRIT 101) courses at Purchase Line may opt to take these courses for Saint Francis credit.  Students must follow the university’s application process for college course enrollment.
  • Pennsylvania Highlands Community College
    • Students enrolled in the Calculus (MAT 210), Anatomy & Physiology (BIO 202 & BIO 212), AP English (ENG 110), Advanced Biology (BIO 104 & BIO 114), Advanced American History I (HIS 100), and Advanced American History II (HIS 110) courses at Purchase Line may opt to take these courses for Penn Highlands credit.  Students must follow the university’s application process for college course enrollment.
 

Participation

To participate, the following criteria must be met:

Must be enrolled in a college-in-high school course

Have a cumulative GPA of 3.0

Have less than 15 days of absences during the previous school year

In order for a student to continue in the College-in-high school program, he/she must meet the established criteria annually.

Costs

Each participating university determines the cost associated with any course.  It is the responsibility of the parent/student to pay for the course and any related fees.

If your son/daughter meets the criteria and is interested, please talk with him/her about the benefits of earning early college credit for courses taken in the Purchase Line School District with PLSD instructors.

 

Advanced Placement

The Purchase Line School District does offer one advanced placement course. This course is English Language and Composition.

 

PREREQUISITES: 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th grade English; B+ average in Advanced English 11 and Proficient or Advanced on Keystone Literature Exam           

All students enrolled in the AP English Language & Composition course can complete the nationally administered Advanced Placement English Language & Composition examination in May.  The student is responsible for the cost of the exam, which is lowered for students who receive free or reduced lunches.

During this course, students aim at becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines and rhetorical contexts, and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes.  Both their writing and their reading should make students aware of the interactions among a writer’s purposes, audience expectations and subjects as well as the way generic conventions and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing.

The AP Language course assumes that students already understand and use standard English grammar.  The intense concentration on language use in this course should enhance their ability to use grammatical conventions both appropriately and with sophistications as well as to develop stylistic maturity in their prose.  Students must pass the summer reading quizzes at the beginning of the school year to stay in this course.

This course has been approved for Saint Francis University’s College in High School Program.  Students can opt to take this course for college credit.