Question:
I'm dual enrolled in college courses while in high school. Will U-M give me college credit for those courses?
Answer:
In some circumstances, U-M will grant credit for college courses taken prior to high school graduation. However, we do not grant credit if any of the following circumstances apply: * the course is needed to fulfill high school graduation requirements; * the course is needed to satisfy U-M's academic curriculum requirements for admission; and/or * the course is taught at the high school or is taken only or primarily by high school students.
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Does this answer frustrate anyone else? Michigan's my top choice by far, and this would mean I would only get about a year's worth of credit after taking 2.5 years of classes at the University of Minnesota...kinda makes me want to stay at MN so I can keep the credits =/ (and save like 30k)</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure my dual-enrollment classes at Michigan were used towards my high school graduation requirements, but still counted. One of my friends spent 3 years taking classes at a local college in high school before coming to Michigan. He started off with ~90 credits, so I'm assuming some credits that he used towards high school requirements still transferred. I also did college classes at a program that was exclusively high school students, and all of those transferred as well.</p>
<p>You can look here (<a href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/saa/advisemeweekly/pdf/Minnesota.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.lsa.umich.edu/saa/advisemeweekly/pdf/Minnesota.pdf</a>) to see which courses the University of Michigan will automatically accept from the University of Minnesota. Other classes can also transfer, but you may need to provide a syllabus or something along those lines so your adviser knows what the class covered. And in any case, if you want your credits to count towards general/concentration requirements (as opposed to just elective credit), you'll have to meet with an LSA/concentration adviser (respectively) to get approval. How easy that is really depends on your adviser. At least in Honors college, a decent amount of the advisers will sign off on just about anything with-in reason. You could always just go in asking to see how many of your credits will transfer, and if you don't get a good adviser, just try a different one later. That is probably what you'd need the syllabus for the most, so your adviser can ensure that what you covered at Minnesota meets the requirement here at Michigan.</p>
<p>No, AP credit is far worse as U of M. Dual enrollment credit can be used to meet actual LSA/concentration requirements. AP only counts as elective credit, and places you into higher classes. That means AP credit in anything other than your intended concentration is basically worthless (unless you plan on graduating real early and might need additional elective credits to get 120 total credits). And even then, AP credits don't count towards the minimum number of credits you need in a concentration to get a major/minor, which means you have to take an additional upper-level class. </p>
<p>For example, say you wanted to do a physics minor. If you use AP credit to get out of 140/141/240/241, you'd still have to take 15 more credits of physics (340/341,390, and then 3 more 400-level classes). If you used dual enrollment to get out of 140/141/240/241, that would count for 10 of the 15 credits, and you'd only need to take 340/341 and 390.</p>
<p>wrong, dilksy, in the COE, almost every AP credits can be used. Math credits, science credits are all engineering requirements. english counts as humanities in your hum sequence, comp sci counts as engin 101, language counts as hum in your hnumanity sequence, econ and others count for your social science sequence. I think everything other than music theory is useful..and they ALL COUNT TOWARDS THE NUMBER OF CREDITS YOU NEED. I am almost 2 years ahead in COE due to AP</p>