Hi all - son will be attending UCF in the Spring, but has registered to take the max amount of credit hours allowed(11) at our local community college for the Fall. Any suggestions on what classes would be best to get out of the way before officially becoming a Knight in January?? He’s taken some gen Ed classes as dual enrollment previously in high school, but open to any suggestions on particular classes he can get out of the way this Fall! Thanks!
The first step would be to get a clear understanding of which of his dual enrollment classes will be accepted by UCF, and what they will be accepted FOR. Most likely, not all of his DE classes will be accepted or they will only count as electives.
Second, I would download the appropriate GEP sheet for his enrollment group. GEP is the General Education Program, which sets the requirements for eventual graduation from any Florida state college or university. It’s important to have the right one, because the requirements change from time to time. His will be the 2021-2022 GEP.
You will find the GEP sheet to be a maze which is difficult to navigate. You can, and should, get a UCF advisor (not community college) to assist with all of this.
Just to give you an idea (and your son’s may be different), my daughter’s GEP requirements include 5 Foundations, 12 GEP requirements, 4 Gordon Rule Writing requirements, 2 Gordon Rule Math requirements, and one Civic Literacy requirement.
That’s the bad news. The good news is that many courses fulfill more than one requirement – some are “two-fers” and some are even “three-fers!”
For example, she got credit for ENC 1101 English Composition via an AP course. That one class was a “three-fer.” It fulfilled her 1) Communication Foundation, 2) GEP #1, and 3) one of her Gordon Rule Writing course requirements.
Step #3, then, is to mark off all GEP requirements met by his DE classes.
THEN, and ONLY then, take a look at what he is registered for at the community college, and find out – with certainty – whether any of those courses will meet GEP requirements. I strongly suggest that you get both the designation of his credited DE courses, and which GEP requirements they fulfill, IN WRITING.
You will almost certainly see classes which are going to count for absolutely nothing, and some of those will have substitutes available which meet GEP requirements.
You don’t want to be throwing any courses away. Anything that doesn’t meet some requirement will count only as an elective, and he’s going to want those to be easy, fun courses.
So if he’s registered for something that won’t count, you may want to drop/add to get something better. He may also want to take fewer hours, rather than piling on classes that really don’t count for anything but credit hours.
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