Lone Star College

How to Apply

Starting on Wednesday March 27th at 8 am, Lone Star Submission Form (called Formstack) will open for students to submit all of their documents: FormStack link

Deadline: Submission registration deadline from Formstack is Sunday April 14th at 4 pm.

What items will be required to be submitted in the FormStack?

These guides are created for our dual credit students to use for their course applications. ApplyTexas will be used for any students seeking admission for Fall 2024. To apply for a dual credit class, students will need to meet the necessary dual credit placement scores (DC Placement Scores – Original TSI, DC Placement Chart-New) and will need to create an ApplyTexas account (ApplyTexas DC Guide) Then submit the following to the campus admissions office prior to or when registering:

  1. Meet all course prerequisites and minimum college readiness test scores in reading, writing, and/or math for enrolled courses
  2. Go to the ApplyTexas Website and use the (ApplyTexas DC Guide) to complete the application.
  3.  Upon receiving your LSC Student ID # via email, student will fill out the Course Approval form (Both Parent and Counselor signature required)                                                                                                                                       A. When completing the course approval form, please use the following information based on the course(s) you will be taking next year in your schedule (please add all courses in one form if you are taking more than one dual course):
    • Class # 13056, Subject: English, Catalog #: 1301, Section # 6D10
    • Class # 00000, Subject: Math, Catalog #: 1314, Section # 6D05
    • Class # 00000, Subject: Biol, Catalog #: 2401, Section # 6D13
    • Class # 13124 , Subject: Musi, Catalog #: 1306, Section # 6D04

    B. You will need to submit your TSI Test scores into the Formstack. College Ready TSI Test Results- You can access your TSI scores by going to https://www.accuplacer.org/ and clicking on “Information for Students” under the Student Portal. Afterwards, click on “your accuplacer or TSI2 Score Report” to enter your information. You will need your TSDS ID Number for “Student ID” and you may ask your counselor. If you have any questions, please contact your counselor.

    C. Submit your high school transcript into the formstack: (you can access your transcript in your skyward folder- when you log into your skyward click on the “portfolio” folder and you will see Transcript for dual credit).

    D. TSDS ID #: You can find your TSDS ID Number on your transcript at the top of the document.

    Failure to submit your documents before the deadline of Sunday April 14th at 4 pm, will result to a schedule change to a non-dual credit course automatically for the 2024-2025 School Year.

NOTE:

  • In order for all students to take dual credit courses for next year, course request submission MUST be made by Wednesday March 6, 2024 at 4:00 pm. After the Deadline, dual credit course requests will NOT be considered.
  • The Course Approval form MUST be submitted by Sunday, April 14, 2024 at 4:00 pm.
  • Please make sure you submit only 1 enrollment form for all of your courses you will be taking for the Fall 2024, if applicable.
  • No submissions will be accepted AFTER the deadline (Sunday April 14, 2024 at 4:00 pm).

Dual Credit During Summer 

Students who choose to take dual credit during the summer break will only be allowed to take the following courses:

  • Texas Government (Govt 2306)
  • Introduction to Communication (SPCH 1318) or Public Speaking (SPCH 1315)
  • Principles of Sociology (Soci 1301)

Students who take dual credit over the summer, payment will covered by the student. Campus will not be covering payment for summer dual credit courses. Starting at the start of the 2023-2024 school year, any course that is taken off the students schedule -(including dual and online in the summer) will receive on-level (out of 4.0) grade points corresponding with the grade earned. 

Summer Dual Credit Registration is now available: Summer Dual. Deadline for Summer Dual Credit registration is Friday March 22nd at 1:30 pm.

Here are the instructions to officially enroll into summer dual:

1. First get your Lone Star ID, by submitting your application to Lone Star through ApplyTexas: ApplyTexas (if you do not have an account, create an account).

2. Once you receive your Lone Star ID, you will fill out and submit the following forms: Course Approval, FERPA, Transcript, TSI Scores, and submit all these documents into the Summer Dual Credit Registration form: Summer Dual.

3. In your Course Approval form, you will need to state the exact courses and section you have signed up for with your counselor (form will also require counselor signature). Below is how you can find the directions on how to find the course and section:

A. Go to Lonestar.edu

B. Select search for classes

C. That will bring you to the Guest Homepage

D. Select View Classes

E. Select 2024 Summer

F. That will bring you to Class Search and Enroll

G. Enter the class information you are looking for

H. That will show you all of the classes at all of the campuses/online

I. Select the campus/online you wish to attend

J. That will show you all of the classes that is being offered.

How to Drop a Course 

Please submit the Lone Star Dual Credit Add Drop Form by filling out the following form: Lone Star Fillable DC Drop/Add Form

Counselor and Student are expected to sign the form. Counselor will share signed form to Lone Star