Which one would look better for colleges & easier?
Help! Can’t decide.
AP Lit looks better. Dual enrollment is easier.
It depends on the specific dual enrollment course and the specific college you want to attend after high school graduation.
It doesn’t matter - you could take either one, but don’t do it just to “impress” colleges.
Typically, dual enrollment is seen as indicative of your ability to perform in a college setting - ie, twice the pace of AP, much more autonomy, fewer grades/no extra credit… In addition, college courses would offer more choices than AP lit in terms of class content.
As for ease, it depends on your individual high school, teacher, college, section, and instructor!
I would take AP Lit…you could get college credit and logistially it would be easier (no trying to get to the college)
I told my kids to take AP Lit, but I think it was a mistake for one daughter (she actually just took honors, not AP). If she’d taken dual enrollment, she would have received college credit for it and not have had to take English in college with just the grade. For AP, she could have had to get a 4 or 5 to get the credit.
If I would have know, I would have had her take several DE classes that would have satisfied the requirements for English and history. She doesn’t enjoy those classes so it would have been nice to get them over with through DE.