<p>Hello, I recently was accepted into a full time dual enrollment program for next year, which will be my senior year of high school. I would still be considered a senior at my high school, but I would be taking all my classes at Florida Gulf Coast University. I was wondering if this will help or hurt my chances with college acceptances?! I've heard different things and I want to be sure before I commit to the program. Also, heres a little background information: Im currently a junior, 3.6 unweighted GPA, 4.25 weighted GPA which I expect to be around a 4.5 by the end of this year. If I do the full time dual enrollment program (known as the ACE program at FGCU) I will most likely have over a 5.0 by the time I graduate. I intern at my county's courthouse in one of the judge's offices, am an attorney at a program called Teen Court, and I also volunteer in the Magistrate's office at the courthouse. Im looking at applying to most of these colleges next year: University of Florida, Florida State University, University of California-Los Angeles, Pepperdine University, New York University, Emory University, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Miami, University of Denver</p>
<p>I’ve been in the dual enrollment program since sophomore year. Im part time DE though with over 60 credits. I see it as a help, just because you can get a lot of classes out of the way. Im going to major in engineering and I got classes like freshman comp, humanities courses and speech out of the way, so I won’t have to worry about them anymore. I applied to UF UCF and USF. I got into all 3. It does not affect your chances to yet into colleges. Although some colleges may not take/accept the credit you attained at another school. You should take advantage of the opportunity to take some classes. I’m not sure if it’s such a good idea to do it full time though because you’re going to miss out on your senior year. Hope this helps.</p>
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<p>Dual Enrollment classes are great! I’m doing it right now as a full time student. I’m only a Junior and I basically don’t have any more required courses to take to pass High school other than a performing arts credit. It’s great because I have extra credits for High School and I’m almost done with college. Meaning I won’t waste any time in a University of my choice. The only way it can hurt you is if you fail. If you do fail it will show on your transcripts. I’m trying not to fail right now. The thing is, if you believe you can do it, why not? You will benefit from it and on the bright side you will save money!</p>
<p>Be aware that grades in college courses taken in high school do count for medical and law school college GPA purposes. So if you preload your college GPA with A or A+ grades, then that is a good thing, but if you get lower grades, that can be a limitation on how high you can get your college GPA for medical and law school purposes.</p>