<p>Personally I prefer the post-secondary option because of the environment and my school only offers two AP courses anyways, but is one better than the other? Is it just about credit transfer? Or do admissions look more highly on students that take AP courses than students who just take the class at a college?</p>
<p>AP is better if an AP equivalent for a course is available at your school, especially if the dual-enrollment class is taught in your high school building, because AP exams are standardized and college classes aren’t. Otherwise, dual enrollment is fine, though it can be logistically difficult if you have to run back and forth all the time.</p>
<p>In most cases it’s also easier to get credit for an AP test score than it is for a dual-enrollment class, but it’s not like you can never get credit for dual-enrollment classes. Some colleges have weird rules about how you can’t get credit for a dual-enrollment class if you used it to meet a high school graduation requirement, or if it shows up on your high school transcript. Check with the colleges you want to apply to. </p>
<p>“Dual enrollment,” as it was called was basically the AP course I took in which the teacher had connections to San Jose State University in which the A’s in Macro/Micro Econ counted as two A’s at SJSU.
Had I taken the AP exam for the credit, I would’ve gotten a total of 4 units more than the SJSU courses.
One of the pro’s of doing this is that you get to enter college with a higher GPA (4.00?) / get a buffer for later, dependent on if you decide to send the transcript in or not. The APs won’t factor into the GPA.</p>