SUMMER 2025 Registration Opens March 3, 2025

Summer 2025 Mini-Mester Payment is Due May 2, 2025

Summer 2025 Session I & Session II Payment is due May 9, 2025

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We are registering students for dual credit via email. All emailed documents must be sent from student’s Lone Star email account in order to be processed for registration.

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New Homeschool Dual Credit Students

Interested in learning about our Lone Star Dual Credit Program?

Homeschool Dual Credit Information Session

Lone Star College
Cypress Center Campus
19710 Clay Road, Katy, TX 77449

DATE:  March 6, 2025

TIME:  1:00 PM

 

DATE: April 10, 2025

TIME: 10:30

 

DATE: May 15, 2025

TIME: 10:30AM

Please select your date of preference, complete and submit the RSVP Form. 

 

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Homeschool Dual Credit Checklist

**All documents must be submitted from student's Lone Star College email.

1. Attend Homeschool Information Session
2. Complete LSC Admissions Application through ApplyTexas - please view the ApplyTexas Application for Homeschool Dual Credit Students

**IMPORTANT UPDATE FOR APPLY TEXAS ADMISSIONS APPLICATION** -- SELECT THE "NON-DEGREE SEEKING" OPTION WHEN COMPLETING THE ADMISSIONS APPLICATION

• Student's Lone Star 7-digit ID number will be assigned upon completion of the ApplyTexas admissions application (generally within 24 to 48 hrs.).
• Student's Lone Star email address (Get Lone Star College Student Email Address) will be created upon completion of the ApplyTexas admissions application.

3. Bacterial Meningitis Vaccination: Complete Bacterial Meningitis Vaccination Requirements
4. Testing: 
       Option 1: See other qualifying assessment scores for Dual Credit

• Request to send official score report to Lone Star College via College Board or ACT (may take up to two weeks) or
• SAT scores may be printed in our Enrollment Lab/Learning Commons

Option 2: Placement Testing with the Texas Success Initiative (TSIA2)

• TSIA2 Testing Information (1st Time) -- click here for more information regarding TSIA2 Testing and submitting the DC Testing Request Form.

• Complete Pre-Assessment Activity (PAA)
• Optional: Attend TSIA2 Review Session
• After completing application, vaccination requirements, and PAA, you must email the Homeschool Dual Credit Department to request TSIA2 Testing.

5. Prepare & Submit documents for upcoming semester
*Please email typed document (from student's myLoneStar.edu email account).

• A homeschool transcript must be submitted at the time of registration for course(s) each semester.
• Transcript must include: (view example document)
  • REQUIRED Homeschool Transcript Template
    • Student's name
    • Student's date of birth.
    • Homeschool name.
    • Expected graduation date.
    • Transcript print date.
    • Principal's signatures.
    • Courses completed thus far arranged by academic year, grade level, semester, and grades.
• A graduation plan of study must be submitted at the time of registration for course(s) each semester.
• Graduation Plan must include: (view example document)
  • Homeschool Graduation Plan Template 
    • Student's name.
    • Homeschool name.
    • Graduation plan print date.
    • Principal's signature.
    • Courses left to complete to graduate high school arranged by academic year, grade level, semester, and expected date of graduation.

6.  Registering & Dropping Classes  

• Dual Credit Students:
  • Are not Able to Self-Register!
  • Are not Able to Self-Drop from Classes!
    • All Dual Credit Enrollment, Schedule Changes and Drops, will be processed by the Homeschool Dual Credit Department. 

**When completing your Course Approval Form, list your 1st option, 2nd option, and 3rd option for each class.

• Search for classes - Complete Dual Credit Course Approval Form and submit to Homeschool DC Department.
• View Example Course Approval Form
• Homeschool Dual Credit Course Approval Form 

7.  Uploading Required Documentation

• Upload all necessary homeschool registration documents using the student's Lone Star College email address.  
  • Please allow 24 to 48 hours to process your homeschool submission request.

8.  Dropping Classes - Complete Dual Credit Drop Form and submit to Homeschool DC Department

• Homeschool Dual Credit Drop Form

9.  Pay your Tuition

• Visit the payment website:  Lonestar.edu/payment.htm
• Information regarding payment plans: Lonestar.edu/payment-plan.htm
• To View your Tuition & Fee Statement:  my.Lonestar.edu
  • PAYMENT DEADLINES FOR SUMMER 2025:
    • SUMMER MINI-MESTER PAYMENT IS DUE ON OR BEFORE May 2, 2025
    • SUMMER 2025 SESSION I & SESSION II PAYMENT IS DUE ON OR BEFORE May 9, 2025
      • After payment deadline, payment must be made within 24 hrs. of enrollment to avoid being dropped for non-payment

10.  Textbooks

• Purchase textbooks and other course materials from the campus bookstore in new, used, rental, and e-book formats.

• Apply Texas - Dual Credit Application Instructions
• FERPA - Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act Form
• Homeschool Transcript Template
• How to Search for Classes
• Dual Credit Course Approval Form
• Homeschool Dual Credit Drop Form
• Schedule Change Form (Drop/Swap
• Get Lone Star College Student Email Address
• Submitting Proof of Vaccination with Med+Proctor
• Setting up Email Job Aid
• Nelnet Multi-Factor Authentication
• Access Your Lone Star College Email
• How to Forward Your Lone Star College Email to a Personal Account
• Find Instructions for Making Payments
• Enroll in a Payment Plan
• Making a Check Payment
• Making a payment with a Credit Card
• How to Order an Official Lone Star College Transcript
• IT Help Desk Info

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Testing Information

NEW OR CURRENT DUAL CREDIT HOMESCHOOL STUDENTS

First Time Testers

To set up Testing either In-Person or Virtual, please follow the steps below:

1. Please complete and submit the Homeschool Test Request form, click here to access the form: Dual Credit Testing Request Form.
2. Upon receipt of the completed Testing Request Form, our office will process your testing request.  We will process each request in the order that it is received.
3. You will receive a follow up email from CF-DCHomeschool@lonestar.edu that will contain information regarding completing the PAA (Pre-Assessment Activity) and the next step in setting up your test date and time.
4. If you do not receive follow up email from the Homeschool Dual Credit Department within 24 to 48 hrs. (business days), please call or email our office.

All Testing is available in-person by appointment ONLY, at this time the Testing Department is not taking any walk-ins for testing.   If you would like to take any placement exam remotely, you can choose to do so, we are using a 3rd party company to proctor our virtual placement exams.  There is a $25 administration fee for each test administered through the third part vendor.  You must have access to a webcam and microphone in order to test remotely.

Retaking the TSIA2 Test or Accuplacer

Complete the Testing Form from the link provided below:

*Please be advised there is a $25.00 service fee for Virtual Testing, plus a fee for TSIA2 or AVANT Re-Test.

• Complete the TSIA2/Accuplacer Re-Test Form (TSIA2/Accuplacer Re-test Request Form) 
  • Choose In-Person Testing or Virtual Testing:
    • Virtual Testers -- Upon completion of the Re-Test Form, you will receive an email with information to set up your Virtual Online Test Date & Time. 

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Returning Homeschool Students Pre-Registration Steps

*Dual Credit Students Must Maintain a Grade of C or better in all college courses completed for dual credit. *
**All documents must be submitted from student's Lone Star email. **

Returning Homeschool Dual Credit Student Checklist

1.  Update and submit required documents for upcoming semester:
*Please email typed document (from student's myLoneStar.edu email account).

• A homeschool transcript must be submitted at the time of registration for course(s) each semester.
  • Transcript must include: (view example document)
    • Homeschool Transcript Template
      • Student's name.
      • Student's date of birth.
      • Homeschool name.
      • Expected graduation date.
      • Transcript print date.
      • Principal's signatures.
      • Courses completed thus far arranged by academic year, grade level, semester, and grades.
• A graduation plan of study must be submitted at the time of registration for course(s) each semester.
  • Graduation Plan must include: (view example document)
  • Homeschool Graduation Plan Template 
    • Student's name.
    • Homeschool name.
    • Graduation plan print date.
    • Principal's signature.
    • Courses left to complete to graduate high school arranged by academic year, grade level, semester, and expected date of graduation.

2.  Registering & Dropping Classes

•  Dual Credit Students:
  • Are not Able to Self-Register!
  • Are not Able to Self-Drop from Classes!
    • All Dual Credit Enrollment, Schedule Changes and Drops, will be processed by the Homeschool Dual Credit Department.

**When completing your Course Approval Form, list your 1st option, 2nd option, and 3rd option for each class.

• Search for classes - Complete Dual Credit Course Approval Form and submit to Homeschool DC Department
  • Homeschool Dual Credit Course Approval Form
  • View Example Course Approval Form

3. Uploading Required Documentation

• Upload all necessary homeschool registration documents using the student's Lone Star College email address.  Please allow 24 to 48 hrs. to process your homeschool submission request.

4.  Dropping Classes - complete dual credit drop form and submit to Homeschool DC Department

• Homeschool Dual Credit Drop Form

5.  Pay your Tuition

• Visit the payment website for payment deadlines:  Lonestar.edu/payment.htm
• Information regarding payment plans: Lonestar.edu/payment-plan.htm
• To View your Tuition & Fee Statement:  my.Lonestar.edu

6.  Textbooks

• Purchase textbooks and other course materials from the campus bookstore in new, used, rental, and e-book formats.