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.

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Tech Prep is a pathway to higher education and career success for juniors and seniors in high school.  It offers classes that are jointly designed by high school and college instructors to link high school and community college curriculums.  Tech prep students can earn college credit, at no cost to the student, for work they earn college credit, at no cost to the student, for work they complete while attending high school.  Completing Tech Prep credits earned, while in high school, generally are applied to a two-year Associates of Applied Science Degree (AAS).  Tech Prep classes enable high school students to reduce the length of time and cost of a college education.

Triston Gilley is a second-year advanced student in the Computer Technology program at Yakima Valley Technical Skills Center.  Triston will have earned 11 Tech Prep credis this year in the program.  His plans are to enroll at Yakima Valley Community College this fall in the Information Technology Department.  Triston’s goal is to earn a CISCO Internetworking Certification.  The Tech Prep credits he will earn this year in his Computer Technology class will apply toward his training at YVCC.