<p>I am hoping some of you on the Penn board my be able to shed some light on Penn's policy regarding dual enrollment credits. I am specifically talking about credits earned on both a high school transcript and a college/community college from taking a college-level class in a high school classroom and taught by a high school teacher.</p>
<p>A poster on another thread has indicated that Penn does accept such credits from her suburban Philly high school and I have no reason to doubt her. I do wonder if this is general policy, however. My daughter, for example, has/will take 2 years of a SUNY foreign language taught in the high school, as well as 3-4 community college courses. If we paid the SUNY/CC for those courses, would Penn be likely to accept them as credit earned toward a Penn degree?</p>
<p>i am pretty sure that any credits that were used to satisfy high school requirements in any form are not acceptable</p>
<p>college-level classes taken above the requirements of the high school curriculum might count - however, penn is pretty stingy with transfer credit</p>
<p>tenebrousfire – Just to make sure I am understanding what you are saying:</p>
<p>If a given high school requires 4 units (aka year-long course) of English, 4 units of social studies, 3 units of math, 3 units of science and 2 units of foreign language…</p>
<p>Then a student who takes a dual-enrollment course for a 5th year of English, 4th year of math and a third year of French might be accepted by Penn for credit towards a Penn degree?</p>
<p>Or should I be looking at this in a different way? Thanks.</p>
<p>^^That is just a hypothetical. I realize most serious candidates for admission to Penn take a minimum of 4 years in each of the five academic cores.</p>
<p>it depends on whether those dual enrollment classes counted towards graduation overall or not (i.e., did they satisfy elective credit requirement)</p>
<p>if they didn’t, then they might count for penn credit - but again, subject to the caveat that penn is stingy with credit even from well-known four-year universities</p>
<p>agree with tenebrousfire…if they are counting toward graduation then they will not be accepted and even if they are just over the top (extra credits for lack of a better word) Penn will likely not accept them unless they are from a very good university. Close to no chance they take a CC course and little chance they take a SUNY course…if the course, as an example, was taken at NYU then there would be a good chance they would accept the credit.</p>
<p>Also note that they might not count it as a credit but rather a waiver. They do this with many AP credits…say you get a 5 on the AP Macro Econ exam, what will happen will be that Penn won’t count it as a credit but rather say “ok you don’t have to take the macro econ requirement for Wharton…rather now you just have an extra opening in your schedule to take an elective.”</p>
<p>oh and just to show you how stingy Penn is with credits…</p>
<p>At my high school all honors classes were dual-enrollment with a CC. You would take the class at our school with our professors but you’d pay the extra $$ to the CC to actually get the credit. Combining this with my AP tests I had enought credits to finish college in one year at a few schools that I applied to (even some private schools). </p>
<p>At Penn obviously none of the dual-enrollment credits counted and out of the 14 AP exams I took (all 4s or 5s) they accepted 3 as credits, 2 as waivers, and gave me nothing for the rest. This technically, in terms of credits, shaved off approx. half a semester.</p>
<p>whartongrad08 – Thanks for the clarification and personal experience. What you say does not surprise me, as none of the other Ivies, with the possible exception of Cornell CALS, appear to accept credit for dual enrollment courses. I’m always open to hearing anything to the contrary, however, if anyone cares to share contradictory information.</p>