<p>Hey guys, I am a sophomore at a secondary HighSchool in AK. My school offers 0 AP classes however they encourage kids to take AP as well as College courses through other institutions. This leaves an uncapped ceiling of possibilities. I am taking AP macro this year since I am a sophomore, and I am getting straight A's. For next year I am wondering if I should take AP classes or courses at my university. Do you guys recommend taking classes at my university (UAA) or AP classes? My parents can afford more AP classes than college classes, so I am planing to take more AP classes. </p>
<p>Ap credits are more likely to transfer for some colleges. I would take what’s available in AP and leave the college classes for extension classes.</p>
<p>I would recommend AP unless you have a specific college class in mind that doesn’t have an AP equivalent (for example, multivariable calculus). </p>
<p>im doing dual enrollment and id like to say that a LOT of college classes are easier than AP classes. this is especially true for the humanities like gov, history, lit, etc (not so much for math and science, they might even be harder depending on your CC). so if you want college credit, and are bad at humanities and have no intention of striving to become better in them, then you might consider community college classes. just make sure that ur classes transfer to colleges, some CC’s dont have articulation programs and classes dont transfer, but either way u still put them on your college apps.</p>
<p>Thank you for your input! I like my humanities… 
my friend is a sophomore taking pre-calc at the university. It is a busy class. He goes 4 days a week.
I want to go out of state. Will AP’s transfer better than the university classes? </p>
<p>(Btw in AK there are only 2 schools UAA and APU. All of them are reasonably good. Expensive… And I am a resident. No CC’s though)</p>
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Generally yes. It’s definitely still possible to transfer dual-enrollment classes to out-of-state universities—my private university gave me 36 transfer credits for nine dual-enrollment classes I took in my senior year. I would recommend contacting whatever schools you’re interested in and asking what their policy is for transferring college credit earned in high school. Your chances of success will be higher if</p>
<p>a) the course was not used to fulfill a high school graduation requirement,
b) it was taken on a college campus,
c) you received a letter grade and it was a C or higher, and
d) the course doesn’t appear on your high school transcript.</p>
<p>I’d suggest taking AP class for general education classes (i.e. English, Math, Science, Social Studies) and Dual Enrollment college classes for electives. That’s what I’m doing. The great thing about AP classes is that they are standardized. Dual Enrollment classes are not, but that doesn’t mean that there is no merit to taking them. </p>
<p>If your school doesn’t let you take a combination of the two, I’d recommend AP. </p>
<p>All of this is great. Thanks again guys! I now have a very clear idea as to what I will do for my jr and sr years. I am taking my first AP this year. So far it is a good experience. For my remaining years I will try 9-10 (4-5 a year for jr and sr). That will be much more affordable than college classes. Also, schools will be more likely to give me credit for my work.</p>