I doubt you would find another college to accept that science camp course unless it was in the same state system that also offers a similar type course for which they award credit. When colleges evaluate what credits they will accept for transfer, they normally have to find one existing in the own offerings that it is equivalent to.
And even if you go to a school that accepts that transfer credit, your daughter may be enrolled in a major where the department says that her general ed science credits must be chosen from among the following 20 courses, and none of them are the one you spent that extra $200 back when she was 11.
Another problem is that some colleges will not accept any transfer credits over a certain number of years old. Even more common is for the department to not accept credits earned more than, say 5 years ago. (Example: I was tutoring a nursing student who was a chemical engineer, but her degree was about 12 years old. She wanted to go to a certain nursing school with an excellent reputation and low tuition, but decided against it when they wanted to make her take a chemistry for non-chemistry-majors course! It was what they made all nursing students take and she could only use her degree to bargain out of it, if she'd done the course work in the last five years. They absolutely would not budge.) Your daughter might decide to delay college, and then her credit for this course might be aged out.
Also, I think you've said in the past that your daughter just very science oriented. If that is the case, she may well want to Major in a science and not even want to use her old credit. She may find much more "delicious" classes to use for those credits instead. Even if she goes to college at the usual age, it may be too old a credit by then.
I think it is Northwest MO State Univ, that has the live-in high school & college joint program. That begins in sophomore or junior year of HS and all classes are college classes. The child finishes with a HS degree, an Associates degree, and a good start on completing the bachelor's. I think your daughter is going to get a recruitment letter for that program. It is not particularly good for the sciences, though. But if she went to it, there would be ZERO tuition to pay for any of those college credits, and they are not specially created classes, but the regular college classes that probably can transfer elsewhere 90% of the time. So, if you hold your horses, daughter can get all those credits paid for, as the state has obligation to pay for the education of all up to age 18. ...Plus, the kids in that program almost always end up with full ride scholarships at any state university....Don't know why the state does not publicize that live high school/ college program more. They just hit you with an invitation letter out of the blue. Oh and yes, homeschoolers do get the invitations if they have taken those SAT and ACT tests as you daughter has.
Plus, the school is hoping to have locked in her heart so that she will choose to come there where she already has familiarity and credit. The more times a kid is on campus, the more likely they will go there for college, and the school would like to have such brights students as your daughter.
I think your child is going to have a lot of options and that it probably is not going to be beneficial to have locked in the credit with $200.
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