Dual Enrollment

Start college early at Coastline!

• Take advantage of our flexible class schedules.
• Choose classes in general education or in hands-on career training.
• Transfer college credits to CSU, UC, private, and out-of-state universities.
• Enroll in classes each semester and never pay tuition as a high school student!

Get Started: How To Enroll

Step 1:

Apply for admission to Coastline College. Refer to the Dual Enrollment Guide for a walkthrough of the application.

Within 3-5 business days after the application, you should receive an email Welcome Letter that has your:

• Coastline ID Number
• College email address and password
• Course registration start date and time

We encourage you to log into your student portal right away. Use the college email address and password you received. For a walkthrough of logging in for the first time, see this video.

Step 2:

For courses online or at a Coastline campus, there are two forms:

1. High School Release Form. You should submit this form each semester.
2. Parent Consent Form. Parent has to submit this only once. If the parent has done this form before at Coastline, Golden West, or Orange Coast Colleges, the student has to fill out only the Release Form above.

For courses at a high school campus in GGUSD, HBUHSD, or NMUSD: College & Career Access Pathways Consent Form. This form is for students from the above school districts to enroll in a course that are open only to their school.

Please note: The HS Release and CCAP Consent Forms require students to log in using the Coastline student email address. We send status updates to your student email, or you can check in your Dynamic Forms account.

Step 3:

Log into MyCoast to see your registration time ticket and register for class! If you do not have a registration time, this could mean that two or more semesters have passed since you last attended. In this case, you should re-apply to Coastline as soon as you can.

Here's a video that walks you through the steps to add or drop classes.

Dual Enrollment Resources

• Course Offerings

  All Coastline classes are open for high school students, as long as you meet each class's prerequisites and conditions for enrollment. For a complete listing, refer to Coastline's course schedule. You can see the deadlines for adding, dropping, and withdrawing from a class by clicking on its Course Record Number (CRN).

  We have course recommendations specifically for high school students! There are general education courses you can use as a starting point for dual enrollment, and a sample plan of which courses to take for each year of high school.

  Note: Please ensure you know the deadlines for adding, dropping, and withdrawing from a course.

• Fees

  California Residents

  For high school students, the per unit enrollment fee is waived. High School students are responsible for paying the college fees* and course material costs when applicable. This applies to undocumented students attending a California high school.

  *College Service fee, Student Health fee, and Student Representation fee. Fees are subject to change.

  For Information on Coastline's cost of attendance, please visit Tuition & Fees.

  High school students taking a class that is part of a College & Career Access Pathways (CCAP) Agreement, enrollment fees, college fees and course material costs are all waived.

  California Nonresidents

  Per AB 2364, CA nonresident high school students do not pay the nonresident tuition fee if they are a United States citizen, a US citizen living abroad due to parental voluntary reasons or have an eligible immigrant visa. Enrollment fees, college fees and course material costs still apply.

  CA nonresident high school students with a non-immigrant or foreign visa pay the nonresident tuition fee, but the enrollment fees are waived.

  For information on Coastline's cost of attendance, please visit Tuition & Fees.

• Policies
  • FERPA: Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, students attending an institution of higher learning become an adult when it comes to their educational records at that institution. It is the policy of the Coast Community College District, in accordance with FERPA, to not release/discuss a student's records without the signed release from the student authorizing the release of that information to anyone except the student. For more information, refer to our FERPA page.
  • Allowable units: High school students can enroll in up to 11 units for Fall and Spring semesters, 9 units for Summer session, and 6 units for Winter session. Students of a K-12 District with a Dual Enrollment Agreement with Coastline can take up to 15 units each Fall and Spring semester if the courses meet specific conditions. For more information, contact Coastline Dual Enrollment.
  • Permanent record: Enrolling in college courses creates a college transcript.
  • Prerequisites: Not all courses offered at a Coastline campus or online are available for high school students. Some have required pre-requisite classes and additional qualifications, which can be found by consulting the current class schedule or College Catalog.
  • Transferring courses to a university: Students planning to apply coursework taken at Coastline toward college or university admission or progress toward a degree should contact the respective institutions regarding policies involving prior coursework.
  • Add/Drop/Withdraw deadlines: It is the responsibility of the student to drop a course they are enrolled in, if they need to do so. Deadlines for drop and withdraw are on MyCoast under Registration Tools; click on My Class Schedule for the specific dates for each class as they are not all the same. By signing the High School Release Form, you agree to the mandated dates and deadlines. Please see more information on drops and withdrawals.
  • Taking a class for a letter grade instead of P/NP: Taking your dual enrollment college course for a letter grade is essential because the University of California (UC) and the California State University (CSU) systems do not accept Pass/No Pass grades for courses to fulfill its A-G subject requirements. This means that if you take a college course as "Pass/No Pass", you will not be able to use this to meet A-G requirements or freshman eligibility for admission to the UC and CSU system. If you have additional questions about this, please contact your high school counselor or the college and career center at your high school.

Dual Enrollment Documents

What our Students are Saying

"My dad and I were looking through the internet, and we found Coastline Community College. It was one of the greatest moves I’ve ever made in my life." -Coastline student, Ohm Rajpal

• Read the blog interview here:

  Dual Enrollment Student Success Story: Ohm Rajpal

  "My dad and I were looking through the internet, and we found Coastline Community College. It was one of the greatest moves I’ve ever made in my life."

  For this week's student feature, we are spotlighting stem student and musician Ohm Rajpal! Ohm is a high school senior who took Calculus 3 with Coastline last semester as a dual enrollment student and has been accepted to many universities, such as USC, Berkley, and Georgia Tech. In this interview, he shares his experience with dual enrollment, the pros and cons, and advice he would give to students wanting to pursue the same path!

  What was your high school experience like?

  I was around really collaborative people in high school. I had a really hard time finding the correct friends to hang around with early on, but once I found a select group of people, I always felt like I was motivated and encouraged to do the right thing and not be distracted. When I found the right group of friends it motivated me to try as hard as I could in whatever field like academics or karate, music, or whatever extracurricular I’m interested in. Even volunteering opportunities.

  How did you find out about dual enrollment?

  It was in my tenth grade when covid began, I was exploring other options to further my learning, and I found community college is a great way of not only pushing myself in school but pushing myself beyond school through college courses and preparing myself.

  Why dual enrollment?

  Dual enrollment for me was a great opportunity for me to earn college credit while doing high school. I was doing AP classes to earn college credit, but an even better way of earning college credit is taking the college class in the first place. So, I take college classes to get credit, so then when I go to a university, I can transfer, or maybe potentially finish a year faster, so I graduate in three years rather than four years.

  And how I found Coastline College specifically was kind of unique because I typically go to community college at Saddleback, and there are great professors there, and I found the learning to be awesome, but I was signing up for a Calculus 3 class and unfortunately, I missed the deadline for Saddleback. My dad and I were looking through the internet and we found Coastline College. It was one of the greatest moves I’ve ever made in my life. I took a class with Son Nguyen which was one of the greatest experiences I’ve had.

  What was your experience with dual enrollment like?

  I would say depending on how many credits the class is, it varies in difficulty. For instance, when I was doing Calc 3, although it was a five-credit class, and it’s challenging, I had to spend lots of time independently learning on my own, and I think that was a big-time commitment on my part. However, it never felt stressful because I just loved the subject so much, so just depending on many credits there are in a course, it can vary on how difficult it is to manage your time.

  What was your reasoning for wanting to get ahead?

  I feel like it gives me a variety of experiences that high school wouldn’t provide. I took a class on music appreciation, and I’m a musician, I play the cello quite often, but in my school specifically, if there would be a music class, I wouldn’t be able to take it because it just wouldn’t fit my schedule. So, if there would be a class that I want to take that my school doesn’t offer, I would just take it at community college. That’s a great alternative.

  What are the pros and cons of dual enrollment?

  The pros are that you get to connect with really, really intelligent people. In my Calculus 3 class, there were very, very smart people, and it was very humbling that you’re not the smartest kid in the room and that there is always room to grow and improve yourself, and that was a great motivating factor for me. Also, the professors are very accessible, especially at Coastline.

  My experience with Son Nguyen basically has really shaped my positive view toward community college. It’s unparalleled education, and it’s something very valuable. Every student should definitely take it. Some of the cons of community college, though, are that it’s very fast because it’s college-level. High school courses are going through 15 weeks in a course that community college would go through in ten weeks or less. You have a mid-term in your third week, and you're like, ‘What?’. You must be a lot more responsible with your learning, you have to take charge of your own education.

  What advice would you give to a student who is wanting to do dual enrollment?

  I would say pick subjects that you’re really interested in. I’m a STEM student and I really like math, so pursue what you love at the best of your ability in community college and things that high school might not provide. Maybe community college provides classes on number theory or linear algebra, or calculus 3, multivariable calculus, and your high school will not provide that because it’s so advanced, so you want to really expand your skillsets early on by going ahead and taking a community college class that you enjoy. You don’t want to just take classes just to solely boost your college application, which is primarily why most kids do it, you want to take it because it’s fun and you enjoy learning. I think that’s the core idea.

  What was your favorite part about Calculus 3?

  I would say it’s not even the content itself, but the amount of life skills that I learned taking that class. For instance, the independence factor and learning and taking responsibility for your education that’s one of the greatest skills I have ever learned, and I have not learned that skill from any other class besides Coastline College. I think that’s really good because in real life, you have to be independent and look out for yourself and Coastline does a really good job doing that.

  What colleges did you get accepted into?

  I got into UC Berkley, UCSD, Cal Poly Slo, USC, Georgia Tech, Purdue - their honors program, University of Minnesota... There's so many colleges I applied to, I applied to twenty-something colleges. I kinda overkilled it, but I got into many of them. My top choices right now are USC, Georgia Tech, and Berkley.

  What is next for you?

  Right now, the current goal is deciding which college to go to in the first place because there’s so many pros and cons for each one. My next goal is just to take it easy right now because as the semester goes on, it’s just going to be really hectic, so I’m trying to destress a little bit before I go onto the next part of my life and so over this summer I just plan to take more community college courses if possible, expand my skillset in engineering, and go visit the world. I’m going to visit India pretty soon, so that’s pretty exciting.

  We thank Ohm Rajpal for sharing his dual enrollment experience at Coastline with us, and we’re wishing him luck in this next part of his life!

Staff Directory

Don Bui

Director, Concurrent & Dual Enrollment

Dbui23@coastline.edu

(714) 714-7302

Maria Mai

Admissions & Records Team Leader

mmai@coastline.edu

(714) 241-6176