<p>I'm taking a dual enrollment course at my high school right now and I was wondering, does the grade you get in the dual enrollment course count toward your college GPA or do you just get credit for taking the course?</p>
<p>At my school, if you're taking a high unit class (like Chemistry, which is 5 out of a "normal" 3 unit class), it adds toward your high school GPA. It doesn't for college though.</p>
<p>Additionally, many colleges will not even give you college credit for dual enrollment. If it counts for high school, it doesn't count in college.</p>
<p>For example:
University of Rochester:
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Courses taken while a student was in high school which were sponsored by a college but were taught in the high school are not approved for transfer credit.
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Transfer</a> Credit : Center for Academic Support</p>
<p>Cornell:
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If a student is enrolled in a college/university course during his/her high school years, transfer credit will be given only if all the following criteria are met:</p>
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<li>Course cannot be used to fulfill high school graduation requirements. </li>
<li> Course must be a standard course taught by a post-secondary institution, available to all students. </li>
<li>If taught in a high school, the high school must be a satellite location, one of several options available to all students taking the course. </li>
<li>Course syllabus, text, examinations, and evaluation process must be the same for all students at all sites. </li>
<li>Students must be enrolled for college credit and pay college tuition.
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CALS</a> Registrar: College Credit earned in High School</li>
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<p>You need to check the websites of the schools you're applying to.</p>
<p>So, if a college accepts dual enrollment credit, it never counts toward your college GPA?</p>
<p>That's correct. </p>
<p>In fact, even if you actually went to college, took courses and transfered, the grades would not count to your GPA for the vast majority of schools. The courses may count as prereqs, the credits might count for graduation, but the grades wouldn't.</p>
<p>Awesome, thanks.</p>
<p>That has been our son's experience too. The high school dual enrollment courses transferred in as credits and helped to waive som prereqs but the grades did not calc into the college GPA.</p>