Hello, I just finished my sophomore year of high school and took my first dual enrollment course at my local university in Florida. I took statistics over Summer A and want to take one more course over Summer B. I know that stats will count as 1.0 credit into my High School GPA but do not know if this goes for all classes. Since I want to take another course over summer, I do not want it to be too rigorous. I am considering taking the History of Rock as I have heard it is easy. Will this be counted into my High School GPA? I am not sure because it isn’t a core class. Thank you.
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I know that this will only count as 0.5 credit IF it transfers into my GPA. But my question is: will they accept it?
Also my school would accept it as weighted 3.0 because APs are worth 6 in my district and its only half a credit.
Every high school/district determines if/how they accept and utilize dual enrollment classes so you need to check with your own school. For my daughter all dual enrollment classes are averaged into the high school gpa and count the exact same weight as an AP class unless they are developmental courses. Her college courses are 3 or 4 credits in terms of college but count as 1 credit in high school. On her high school transcript they say college English, college math etc and give a numerical grade that translates into the letter grade given. The difference is the high school has an A plus grade for 98 to 100 but the college grade just goes to an A for 93 and up.
While the high school accepts pretty much everything from the community college they are connected to there is a limit of 5 classes a semester (free, and free book rentals) but students can’t take free summer classes. My daughter is doing early college for 11th and 12th grade so she needs to take whatever is left for high school graduation requirements but 1 semester of English counts as a full year high school requirement and 1 credit as a high school class like all full year classes at my daughter’s school.
@thereka ^^^ is right it really depends on your school, but I would think if they accept credit from a community college they would accept most, if not all, courses. If your school has a definite connection to the community college than more than likely it would transfer. If you transferred credits before then you should be good.