Dual Enrollment = Honors?

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@vineyardview We are in CA. I do not think there is a requirement that all college courses be placed on the HS transcript. This may be a requirement in your district. It is just required that they all be self-reported on the UC/CSU applications and then all for-credit courses be provided as transcripts to the UC/CSU you decide to attend. For UCs/CSUs, HS transcripts aren’t even sent until June after senior year and then only to the college you will be attending.

We did have DS17’s college courses added to his HS transcript because all the extra weighted classes helped his GPA and because the district required 3 years of math even if some of that was post-calculus. It was not automatic that the community college and UCSB sent transcripts to the high school. We had to pay for transcripts to be sent (cheap for community college, $15 each time for UCSB).

We also sent all transcripts to the colleges he applied to other than the UCs/CSU. That’s because the HS transcript only showed the course number for college courses, not the course title. The course titles were only on the college transcripts. (He ended up with transcripts to send from 4 colleges with each application in addition to the HS transcript. That was expensive.)

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Wow! Thanks for all the responses. I guess it’s “anything goes” depending on where you live.

DD’s high school doesn’t rank for val, sal, etc., but I believe they tranche the kids (“top 10%”, “top 20%”, etc.) for college reports. It’s a big school. She’d have to be really unlucky for lack of that miniscule GPA boost to drag her down a tranche.

DD took a very difficult DE class this summer. She took it because she enjoys the subject, and the college credit was a bonus (she would have signed up without those credits). A good portion of the students (most older than DD) failed the final. DD “studied like Granger” and thankfully did great. I didn’t appreciate how difficult the class was until that point, though. That’s when it hit me that, yeah, it’s college level and thus, to be fair, deserved the honors boost. No complaints, though. It was a rewarding experience for her.