Tech Prep

A leading Dual-Credit program for
high school students,

 . . . and a best kept SECRET!

 

Tech Prep, offered through Yakima Valley College, can save you money by offering free college credits while in high school giving you a head start on college and your career pathways.

Tech Prep offers classes in high school that are jointly designed by high school and college instructors to link high school and college education.  Tech Prep students can earn college credit for work they complete while attending high school.

Completing Tech Prep credits while in high school generally is applied to earning a two-year AAS degree at Yakima Valley Community College.  Tech Prep classes enable high school students toreduce the length and cost of a college education.

How Tech Prep Works for Students

The Yakima Valley Tech Prep Consortium is made up of YVCC and local school districts working together to provide opportunities for high school students to earn college credit.  Students can earn college credit at YVCC while taking articulated courses at their own high school.

When enrolled in a Tech Prep articulated class, students in high school must meet the same requirements as students who take the class at the college.  At the end of the course, the high school teacher notifies the Tech Prep coordinator at the college of all students who passed the class with a grade of "B" or higher.  Credit is not available to students who earn below a "B".
 

In order to establish a YVCC transcript and get the credit and grade, each student must send in a registration form to the YVCC Tech Prep Office with a one-time transcription fee.  Students who complete additional Tech Prep courses or students enrolled in Running Start with an established YVCC transcript do not need to submit another transcription fee, but still need to send in a registration form for the class(es) they have successfully completed.

Each high school determines which classes it will articulate with Yakima Valley Community College.  The number of Tech Prep credits a student can earn in high school will vary from high school to high school.  It will also depend on the career path that a student chooses.  Students need to discuss the Tech Prep options in their school with counselors and teachers that offer Tech Prep classes.

Currently, the Yakima Valley Community College Tech Prep Consortium includes 14 upper and lower valley school districts, Yakima Valley Community College, and the Yakima Valley Technical Skills Center. They are 27 courses offered at YVCC for local area high schools to articulate their course of study to an AAS Degree at Yakima Valley Community College.

For additional information on Tech Prep check out their website www.yvcc.edu/techprep or contact Angel Reyna at (509) 574-4744 or angel.reyna@yvcc.edu