<p>Hello, I'm in high school and I'm going to take dual-enrollment classes my my local community college, and I was wondering if anybody who also took college classes in HS (Not AP) found that they helped them in college. Because my older sister didn't take DE classes and just took the classes at the high school and said her school didn't prepare her for college at all and wished she would've taken classes at the community college.</p>
<p>Does this have any any truth to any of you guys?</p>
<p>About to drop some knowledge here.</p>
<p>If you are doing well in your community college classes, you should easily be able to deal with most of your general education classes at whatever college you attend. The most important element of succeeding in college is to do the work and study, not try and get by on your genius all the time. You need to know when to work/study and when to have fun. It’s part of being an adult.</p>
<p>It only really depends on the person. It neither helps nor hurts you to take college classes if you get a good high school education as a basis and are willing to roll up your sleeves. It’s definitely not hard to succeed in college without ever having dual-enrolled or taken AP classes. For instance, I had to take a political science class this semester. In my group of 7 or so someone brought up if anyone had taken AP Gov and everyone said they did. I didn’t, but I’m still acing the class nonetheless and I decided to take the teacher that makes your life busy as heck on purpose 'cause I knew I’d actually learn something in this class. </p>
<p>For classes in your major, that will require either a lot of hard work/talent(one can compensate for the other), and probably a little bit of luck. It depends on what you major in, though. I was surprised at how many students in my upper math classes have failed plenty of classes or scraped by the skin of their teeth in the upper-divison math courses and were so happy to get a C sometimes. But it was pretty awesome that everyone was so nice to each other and willing to help each other get through classes. </p>
<p>Just get the best education possible at your high school and read a lot. I remember walking into a General Chem class and the teacher asking if everyone had taken chemistry before. Well, I was the only one in the lecture hall to not take it yet. I still did as well as others. I just put in a lot more hard work 'cause I never saw the stuff before. </p>
<p>Overall: work hard and you’ll be fine!</p>
<p>It depends what college and program you end up in. I took dual enrollment at a CC jr year, then a 4-year commuter as senior. It helps you get used to lectures, night classes, and exams that are 50% of your grade. Other than that i didn’t find it very useful, except to escape high school. So in other words it was highly useful. If you end up at a top college or difficult program, though, self-educating will help you prepare more than any high school or DE class.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info.</p>
<p>BUMP!!</p>