<p>classes??</p>
<p>my dd is taking dual credit now and she needs to sign up for her classes next year. if the dual credit will transfer, then she will go ahead and take more.</p>
<p>right now she is hoping to go to U of Alabama (honors etc) and i heve emailed the registrar, but i havent been able to get an answer!!</p>
<p>so, i was wondering if it was typically not a problem to get credit for dual credit classes ... </p>
<p>anyone???</p>
<p>My D took Calculus as a dual-credit course. She attends an OOS flagship now. They gave her three credits, but not for Calculus and not for a course required for her (science) major. YMMV.</p>
<p>so, that means elective credit. hmm … that wouldn’t be worth much … at least to me.</p>
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<p>My son doesn’t expect to get any college-level credit for any of his dual enrollment courses except at his safety. He takes the courses to have a challenging high school curriculum, not to transfer credits on to college.</p>
<p>My nephew took several dual-credit courses and they transferred to the business school of a mid-level public flagship university, allowing him to graduate a semester early.</p>
<p>It depends on the university, the college within the university, and the major. </p>
<p>I’ll be frank, I don’t think the courses he took as dual enrollment were as good as the equivalent he would have taken at the university. In fact, I’m certain of it. I think he would be better educated had he taken English, history and math at the university. (His high school is a pretty poor one.) However, for him and his parents, knocking a semester off the tuition bill was worth it.</p>
<p>It depends on a lot of things. DS#1 will be taking (basically) 4 dual credit classes next year - 2 Engl, 1 Govt, 1 Econ. Most of the schools I’ve looked at (state/private but not Ivies) will give him credit for all. Whether or not they “match” with degree/core curriculum requirements depends on the school.</p>
<p>well, for most of the classes that my DD is taking dual credit … i don’t think it would be a huge loss to take them in high school and NOT have to take them in college.</p>
<p>things like history … meh … dont see the need to take that class over and over.</p>
<p>i placed out of freshman english. if i already knew the material … what would be the point in taking the class in college??</p>
<p>it’s not like most kids are taking core classes in dual credit. mostly just gen. ed. classes.</p>
<p>not so much for the finishing early aspect … but it would give kids some wiggle room in their schedule.</p>
<p>Son received 28 dual-enrollment credits. 3 were not accepted as they translated into a course that he had already taken (it was a quirk of their transfer database). The school has a transfer database that maps specific courses at specific colleges and universities to the course number at his school. The database determines if and how many credits transfer over. If the school/course aren’t in the database, the student can request an evaluation of the course to determine whether or not credits will transfer in. The appropriate department then contacts the appropriate department of the other school to evaluate the foreign course.</p>
<p>S2 took two dual credit classes at our Comm. College as a senior. Both transferred to the (instate) big state u. he attends. His school’s website has a page that lists all the CC courses that will transfer and what their equivalent course is at the univ.</p>
<p>Agreed. The university your child is looking to attending will usually have a course map with what courses will transfer to what from a community college or other university. </p>
<p>If the dual credit course is taken in high school has the same course number as the course map it should be accepted. </p>
<p>In the interest of maximizing dual credit opportunities your child should probably stick to core classes in dual credit rather than things that might transfer as electives.</p>
<p>Mike,</p>
<p>Alabama has been really good at transferring credit, but much of the transferring is decided by the individual college. There is a list at <a href=“https://ssb.ua.edu/pls/PROD/rtstreq.P_Searchtype[/url]”>https://ssb.ua.edu/pls/PROD/rtstreq.P_Searchtype</a> of courses from OOS schools that transfer (STARS is for in-state AL only), but the list is no guarantee of something transferring. Your e-mail from the registrar should include the contact info for the person who transfers courses for your D’s intended college. If not, call the college directly and they’ll help. UA is very good about transferring OOS dual enrollment credits, while many other universities refuse to transfer dual-enrollment credit. I ended up getting 69 hours transferred into UA, but even then 4 classes transferred as elective credit only (designated as 197 or 397 courses on the UA transcript). Definitely confirm the transferability of courses before having your D take them. If you have any further questions, I’ll be glad to help.</p>
<p>My D had the maximum allowable dual-credit in Texas. Didn’t do diddly for her. (For the pre-meds in crowd, remember that those grades are calculated into your GPA, for better or worse, even if your UG gives you zippo credit.)</p>
<p>My daughter took dual credit classes for her core classes in high school. She got accepted to NYU and they would not accept any of them. It was a waste of money. I have a daughter in high school now and she will not be taking dual credit courses. If she wants to earn college credit she can take college classes during the summer or evenings.</p>
<p>Appreciate this thread being bumped up – My rising 10th son is in a unique position; his school is offering a dual course which also prepares for the AP exam. Basically, we can pay $100 for the credits & hope they transfer where ever he lands in the future or he can sit for the AP exam.</p>
<p>I think I prefer him sitting for the exam.</p>
<p>I researched this for both of my daughters and have never found a college that accepted dual credit courses, except for the institution at which the course was taken. If you look at transfer policies, almost all colleges refuse to accept a course that was included in the high school transcript.
I’d go for the AP.</p>
<p>Mike: Try this link on the U. of Alabama website. Scroll down to course equivalence tables.</p>
<p>[The</a> Office of The University Registrar - The University of Alabama](<a href=“http://registrar.ua.edu/transfer_credit_student.html]The”>http://registrar.ua.edu/transfer_credit_student.html)</p>
<p>Follow the directions on each screen that appears. You will be asked for the name of the community college. Under each college, there is a listing of what classes transfer.</p>
<p>My son, who just started his second year at Alabama, did this for summer classes in World Lit and Art Appreciation. This allowed him to finish out his basic requirements a few weeks ago.</p>
<p>I also went through this with my son. Like zoosermom, we found that most colleges would not give credit for any classes that were also used to meet high school graduation requirements. The only exceptions for us were our in-state universities (we’re in AZ) – and they did because the college giving the dual credit was our local community college, which has transfer agreements with those universities. However, we did find at least one other State university (U Oregon) that would have given him transfer credit for his dual enrollment classes.</p>
<p>With my son’s AP classes, there was never any question about having the colleges grant credit – except for getting a high enough score on the AP exams! :)</p>
<p>My D is discovering this right now with our IS flagship - she’s going into the engineering school so in order to get credit for the MV Calculus class she took as dual-enrollment she has to take a placement exam and test out of the class as well which I think is so they ensure their students know the math they need to for the e-school. Were she going into the College of Arts and Sciences instead they would accept the dual-enrollment without question so it can vary by departments/schools within the school.</p>
<p>I think we need to agree what exactly dual credit is. For example, I took single and multivariable calculus at Ohio State, got high school credit for it, had it show up on my high school transcript, and MIT accepted these classes and I received transfer credit for it.</p>
<p>The biggest factors I’ve found that will hurt you in receiving credit are that the “college” class was actually taken in a high school with mostly high school students taught by a high school teacher, or classes taken at a college but are not very rigorous/advanced, such as Public Speaking, or College Algebra classes. In the first case, the circumstances are such that it’s hard to trust the rigor of the classes or even if the class covered enough material, while in the second there probably aren’t equivalent classes to transfer to.</p>
<p>Both AP or dual credit are a risk. Take an AP, and whether you get credit all comes down to one’s performance on a single exam. Dual credit may or may not be accepted. Consider the following before you choose:</p>
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<li><p>Cost. In my state, dual credit courses incur no fees as long as the student earns a C or better. If not, the student pays. So, in my my state, you’re out nothing.</p></li>
<li><p>Transferability. Look for articulation agreements. Most of the state Us and colleges will have them with schools in the same state’s community college system. Many nearby private schools will also have them with the closest community college. Why? It’s good business. The four year schools want students from community colleges to transfer, so they agree to take credits. </p></li>
<li><p>Usefulness of the credits. This one’s tricky. The institution where I work gives English credit for AP English, but it’s elective credit. Not very useful as the student will still have to take our English classes. Because of an articulation agreement with the local CC, the kids who skipped AP and went for dual credit will come in with credit for comp. So, in this case the dual credit is better. HOWEVER, you get dual credits that aren’t terribly useful. For instance, the local high school offers a dual credit course they call “Anatomy and Physiology”. The college credit comes from my institution where we call the course (and what appears on the transcript) is “Human Biology of NONMAJORS”. Fine for a history major or somebody who just needs a lab science for gen ed, but essentially an elective credit for a science major. </p></li>
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<p>I really don’t think there’s a clear winner in the debate. We went dual credit. Ordinaryd1 is applying to 3 schools. All are “tier 1” on the USNews reports. All take dual credit. I’m pretty sure not all of it will be useful, but if she gets even a little wiggle room in the schedule, I think it’s a good thing.</p>
<p>Bottom line, check the policies at the schools your child is interested in attending and go from there.</p>