For the past three summers, Cristo Rey St. Martin has offered a dual-credit statistics course for students to get a head start on earning college credit. Over the years, this has been a popular way for students to earn college and high school math credits, to free up their schedules for senior year.
The course takes place over 3 weeks in the summer, and the 21 students taking the course meet daily for three hours. In the past, Scott Lane from Loyola University Chicago has been the professor of this course. This year, Enrique Trevino who is the Department Chair of Mathematics and Computer Science at Lake Forest College is the instructor.
All accredited colleges and universities accept the credits that students earn from this course, so CRSM students have the ability to opt out of other courses wherever they attend school and apply the ones earned from the statistics course instead.
This course is a great opportunity for CRSM students to experience a college-style class while also earning credit that will be applied towards their future education. The students who participate in this course during the summers are one step closer to getting into and through college, one of the core values in our mission statement.