I am planning next year’s courses with D21. She will take Spanish and English courses with a community college. The plan was to also take (through online providers) AP Physics 1, AP Calc BC, AP US Govt, and then she still has a half credit economics and a half credit of P.E. to do to fulfil state requirements.
Are community college semesters the same as one full year of high school? If so, then she’d have 8 credits next year instead of 6 if she took English and Spanish both semesters. I’d like her to have a full year of English and a full year of Spanish so there’s a chance she can have the same professor for both semesters in each subject and therefore have some LOC choices from a professor who gets to know her all year (I want her to have LOCs from teachers/profs of in-person classes as opposed to online).
However, since she hasn’t done dual credit before, I worry about overloading her. She did seven and a half high school credits in 9th grade and is handling 7 credits in 10th grade, but none of those courses were community college courses (though she has been taking APs - two in 9th and four right now in 10th).
How have you folks handled fitting dual credit courses into the schedule? Has a community college course felt that much more difficult than an AP course to your teen? Is it way too much to have three year-long AP courses and four semesters of cc courses (plus a year of non honors requirements) for 11th grade, or does that sound about right for high performing teens? I don’t yet have any personal experience with this, so any advice or perspective you’d like to share would be appreciated, thanks.