AP Classes v. Early College Courses

Applying to College
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<p>I go to a high school that just happens to be right next to UConn. Probably because of this, my school offers only a few AP courses (Chem, BC Calc, Computer Science, US History and Art, I think). Instead we have a lot of classes that are equivalent to a UConn course, called ECE (early college experience) classes. So for example, we don't have AP Physics, but I took the ECE Physics which was equivalent to Physics 1201 and 1202 at the university. I get college credit for these classes, and I'm enrolled as a student at UConn. I'm getting 14 credits for this year (sophomore) and am taking 23 next year...then more as a senior.</p>

<p>How do these look for college? Do AP classes look better?</p>

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<p>Your situation is not typical so you may want to ask 2 or 3 college admission offices how they they would view what you’re planning to do in regard to “attending” high-school and UConn concurrently, and what they recommend. My sense is that it would appear to some colleges that you have a significant number of college credits when you apply, and that you are then effectively applying as a transfer student.</p>

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<p>I live in SW Connecticut, and all of our courses are AP/ECE but you can opt out of ECE. </p>

<p>UCONN says the credits are transferrable ANYWHERE but I doubt that. I’m sticking with just AP next year except for physics and English.</p>

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<p>Hmmm. Most of our ap-level classes are ECE only. And considering that I’ll graduate high school with like 60 UConn credits…they better transfer. I’ve been told just about any public university will accept them.</p>

<p>I suppose it’s best to ask.</p>

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<p>In my similar experience, colleges almost always want such a student to apply as a freshman, then will consider transferring credits later (similar to AP/IB).</p>

<p>Many colleges will take dual enrollment credits (ranging from a few to two years’ worth), but some (often extremely selective or with a unique program) will not.</p>

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<p>Bakere— I hope you’re applying to many publics then.</p>

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<p>Haha…well I have a while to decide. I’ve been thinking UC Berkeley though. I’ll have to check if they’ll take them.</p>

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<p>Aw you’re a sophomore haha. Yeah you have plenty of time… I don’t… I think I’m applying to 3 publics (UCONN only to please my mom, Rutgers, and UMass I think is public).
The other 6 are privates.</p>

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<p>Many private colleges will accept dual enrollment credits.</p>

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<p>I wasn’t sure if ECE classified as dual enrollment. Time to update my collegeboard profile.</p>

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<p>Are they taught on a college campus and/or by a college professor?</p>

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<p>It depends. Most are in the high school. But I can take any course not offered at my school at UConn for free. All the ece classes go on both a high school and UConn transcript.</p>

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<p>We can take them at UCONN too? Why wasnt I informed of this!!!</p>

<p>I knew we could use their library on campus, but not that.
Not that I live close enough anyway.</p>

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<p>Yup. Maybe that’s just cause my school is on campus. I think I’m taking cognitive science there next year. And I’m set to finish my school’s math classes a year early so I’ll take math there too.</p>

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<p>I want to double major in cognitive science!!!</p>

<p>I don’t know you, but I’m a tad jealous right now.</p>

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<p>Really? I want to do premed so I was looking at the list of science classes and it looked interesting. Hopefully there’ll be room in the class.</p>

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<p>I’m going to double major in computer science and cognitive science (or psychology) in college.</p>

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<p>My high school is literally right next to Dartmouth College, so I’ve been taking history and English classes there for a couple of years. I’ve done really well (all A’s!), and it’s really made an impression on all of the admissions people that I’ve talked to at all of my colleges, especially Colgate, McGill, and Dartmouth itself. My school doesn’t offer any AP’s at all.</p>

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<p>I’m glad you have that opportunity!</p>