Does your school weight dual-enrollment courses?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>My school converted to a public charter school this year, and we aren't weighting courses taken at community college, even if it's a college level course. For example, I was going to take Calculus II, but it would actually lower my GPA because an A would be 4, rather than 5 points. Since the rest of my schedule is mainly AP/Honors courses, I would rather not have the class listed on my high school transcript.</p>

<p>How do your schools handle this? Do you weight actual college classes, or are they just marked that they were taken off-campus?</p>

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<p>Yes. They’re weighted the same as AP classes</p>

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<p>My school counts them as honors credit.</p>

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<p>Nope, my school doesn’t, and I find it ridiculous.</p>

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<p>Dual enrollment classes are weighted the same as AP classes at my school.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the replies already! I’ve talked to the office about it, and they say “since it’s listed as ‘community college - Calculus II’, it already lets colleges know that it’s advanced.” What other arguments are there that I can try to use to convince them to weight the courses when calculating GPA/rank (though we don’t rank anymore either :().</p>

<p>@purmou, I agree. It’s totally and utterly stupid.</p>

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<p>Yep, same as AP classes.</p>

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<p>I’m not sure how it works for students who are dual-enrolled with the local CC at my school. I have a dual-enrollment with 4-yr college this year, though, and my college courses and grades don’t even show up on my high school transcript. I am the first student from my high school to bridge with this college though, so it might be different in the future.</p>

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<p>But then again, my school doesn’t even provide a weighted GPA, we don’t get anything extra for taking honors or AP courses.</p>

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<p>My school doesn’t weight anything.</p>

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<p>Oh, it just says “Calculus” on my transcript. >.></p>

<p>My counselor actually doesn’t know anything, so even if I have a good enough reason, she won’t know if she’s allowed to do anything.</p>

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<p>Same at my school. The administration is wacko…</p>

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<p>Weighted same as AP courses–extra point</p>

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<p>Mine weights them the same as AP</p>

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<p>College courses can be shown up on my high school transcript, but only with grades of “pass”, even I get As.</p>

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<p>Mine only showed “CR” on the transcript and it didn’t factor into the high school grades. Then again it never weighted grades, just on a 4 point scale. That would be a shame if someone was discouraged from dual enrollment for this reason. It’s really nonsense for AP to count more when AP is not even a real college class by comparison.</p>

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<p>Used to count… But they stopped doing it the summer of my junior year because there were GPA extremists abusing the heck out of it for a 4.8x. And one lucky 2013 student, the valedictorian got a piece of it before it was taken away. Other schools in the district still allow it, but there you can top 10 with a 4.5x instead of a 4.65-4.7x.</p>

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<p>Yep, I think they’re the equivalent of honors courses…or AP…I forgot.</p>

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<p>No mine doesn’t. It really sucks.</p>