<p>What are the benefits of dual enrollment for a student enrolled at a competitive top-100 public high school? Assuming, of course, that the student is taking courses at the community college that are not offered at the high school. So what are some benefits besides being able to take courses that aren't offered at your high school?</p>
<p>You get an introduction into the college experience.</p>
<p>My school insists that community college classes will be of a poor quality compared to AP classes at my high school. I am a bit skeptical of this.</p>
<p>Can any of you, from personal experience, agree with what my school is saying?</p>
<p>AP Classes > Community College Classes, because CC Classes = Regular HS Classes.</p>
<p>^HotIvy</p>
<p>AP Classes > CC ?? Why?
So you can possibly fail the AP Exam?? CC Classes add to your GPA and are typically easier. I would rather get that credit than have it all bare on an exam and the college’s AP policy…</p>
<p>^^ You make a point, but I don’t think it’s worth the hell you go through in the CC classes.</p>
<p>My junior year, I took Writing 1201 and Econ. at my local CC, Big Sandy Community College, instead of at my high school, and it was absolutely horrible. The college kids all came to class stoned, they never did their work, and when we peer edited in english, I spent more time correcting my classmates’ grammar and spelling mistakes than I did their actual conceptual stuff.
The classes were wayyyy easier than my AP classes, and I never felt inspired or challenged. I just felt bored.
Kids got sent out of class, our econ class got yelled at for talking too much, and there were PAPER AIRPLANES. </p>
<p>I personally think that spending time in an AP Class with kids who actually care is much more meaningful than spending time at a CC with kids who purely don’t give a damn.</p>
<p>^“Big Sandy Community College”</p>
<p>amusing name</p>
<p>When I went to UChicago, they actually said AP Classes are better than CC colleges and they prefer to see kids take AP classes, because in AP classes, you’re dealing with the best kids at your school, kids who are, if you’re in a top 100 public like the OP said, probably going to top 50 USNWR LACs and Unis. When you’re taking classes at CC, you’re dealing with kids who, on the whole, are quite simply not as bright, so if it’s AP Econ or whatever vs. CC Econ, you’re probably going to be challenged more in AP Econ.</p>
<p>But some HS kids are taking college classes at actual universities instead of CCs. I’m at a top 100 public school, and I’m taking two college classes senior year, one at a university and one at its affiliated community college, since all of the classes in that subject at the university are before I get out of school. One of my classes I’m taking because I’ve finished math at school and unless I want to go take an easier class and forget all of the calculus I’ve learned, I have no other option. The other one, I really don’t care what colleges think because I cannot endure another year of French at my school, AP or not. The teacher and the level of the class in general do not work for me. Anyway, there is a schedule conflict and I couldn’t take AP French if I wanted to.</p>
<p>Honestly though, I can’t see a college complaining because you took Calculus I-III at a community college instead of AP Calculus. The thing that annoys me about that too is that colleges make sweeping generalizations. A local high school offers AP Calculus, and not a single student has made a 3+ in 10 years, but it’s still considered more rigorous than a community college class?</p>
<p>Now, what about taking classes at a pretty good state university? It’s ranked around 75 by USNews or whoever ranks them.</p>