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Dual Credit Students

Get Started on Your Future!

With dual credit college courses, you can earn high school and college credits at the same time! This opportunity can fast-track your progress toward a college degree and prepare you for the academic rigors of higher education.

Are you interested in participating in our dual credit program? To begin, tell your high school counselor that you are interested. Your counselor can give you more information about Dual Credit Information Night and Texas Success Initiative (TSI) testing dates at your high school.

Dual credit information night

At Dual Credit Information Night, you can:

  • Learn about dual-credit courses offered at your high school.
  • Receive information about the required TSI Assessment.
  • Discuss the benefits and responsibilities associated with taking dual credit classes.
  • Clarify tuition costs and financial responsibility.
  • Connect with your high school official.
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TSI Testing

TSI tests are designed to assess your reading, writing and math skills to determine if you are ready for college-level coursework. You may be exempt from TSI testing if you have:

  • Met the minimum college readiness standard on the SAT® or ACT.
  • Successfully completed college-level English and math courses.
  • Acceptable STAAR scores in English III and/or Algebra II.
  • Successfully completed specific college prep courses in high school.

How to Apply for Dual Credit

Fill out ETAMU's free dual credit online application with ApplyTexas. You must have an active, personal email address. If you need help filling out the application, contact your high school counselor or your parent. If you are a student who needs to reverse-transfer your credits back to another college, please indicate this in your application.  Then, stay tuned for an email confirming that East Texas A&M received your application.

Request that your official high school and college transcripts—for any of your completed dual-credit courses—be sent to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, electronically or via mail in a sealed envelope. The transcripts should be sent to:

East Texas A&M University

Office of Undergraduate Admissions

PO Box 3011

Commerce, Texas 75429-3011

Your acceptance letter with your student ID number, otherwise known as your campus-wide ID (CWID), will be sent to your email.

Submit TSI Scores or Exemptions

  • If you have TSI Scores, you will need to log in to Accuplacer to send those records to East Texas A&M.
  • If you have SAT or ACT scores that can exempt you from TSI, you will need to log in to their respective websites and have the SAT or ACT scores sent to East Texas A&M.

Contact your high school counselor for help sending in your TSI Scores or exemptions to our university.

Submit Bacterial Meningitis Vaccination Records

  • This requirement is s only applicable to students who are taking dual-credit classes at the main campus in Commerce, Texas, or the East Texas A&M at Dallas location. Students taking dual-credit classes at their high school are exempt from submitting bacterial meningitis vaccination records.

For instructions on how to submit bacterial meningitis records, please visit dbctl.com/Meningitis-Req.

Log in to MyLEO for the first time. Then:

  • Check your LeoMail.
  • View academic holds.
  • Sign the Financial Agreement Form.

  • Sign the dual credit agreement form. Student, parent/guardian and high school signatures must be included.
  • Your high school counselor will send the student schedules of all students participating in the dual credit program to our university.
  • Remember, all registration is completed through your high school counselor and East Texas A&M. Dual credit students are currently not allowed to register for classes on their own and have a mandatory registration hold on their accounts. There are specific courses created just for dual credit students.

Once School Starts

  • Confirm with your professor that you are on the class roster on the first day of class.
  • Your achievement will be assessed at five weeks for early intervention.
  • If you have a D or F at eight weeks, you will be dropped from the course and placed in a high school-level class.
  • It is recommended that you meet with your instructor and high school counselor during the semester if you are struggling.
  • If you wish to drop or withdraw from a dual credit class, you are required to meet with your high school counselor first. The high school will then submit the drop/withdraw documentation.
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Contact Us

  • P.O. Box 3011
  • Commerce, TX 75429
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