My daughter is a student with Laurel Springs. She is taking physics at the local community college. In NC, a dual enrollment class is weighted like an AP class. Laurel Springs is treating it like a standard class (not even honors). Does anyone have info on their state as far as weighting dual enrollment?
She enrolled for the class because the UC system doesn’t give credit for online labs so I was trying to go above and beyond to account for that requirement.
My school district doesn’t weight dual enrollment/running start classes either. It’s very frustrating.
My D18 will be taking 2 DE classes next year/senior year. Her school does not weight DE classes, but gave us the choice to keep them off her HS transcript unless they are needed to fulfill her HS graduation requirements. In her case they are needed and the slight hit on WGPA is a rounding error and since the 9-11 grades will in the books for fall applications she does not really care.
In MA each high school decides how to accept dual enrollment and how they fit in with gpa and the state isn’t involved with that at all. At my daughter’s public high school dual enrollment courses are all counted at the same weight as AP classes unless they are developmental classes. I’m not sure how they ultimately show up on the transcript but right now it says dual enrollment English, dual enrollment math etc with the actual course name on the college transcript. When applying to college, schools can easily do a high school vs college gpa if they desire. A student can not choose if they want college classes left off the transcript no matter what the grade is.
At our high school there is a numeric grade on the transcript and the gpa is based on weight and letter grade associated with the numeric grade. For instance 90-92 is A minus, 93 to 97 is an A and an A plus is 98 to 100. In the dual enrollment each class gets a letter grade from the college but on the high school transcript it is given a numeric grade. The big difference was the college does not give out A plusses but if the high school computer sees the numeric grade as a 98-100 they give the weight of a A plus for the high school gpa based on my dd’s 1st semester grades.