<p>Hello,
My son is currently a dual enrollment college prep student in Texas. In his junior and senior year, he takes upto 68 college credits AT a Junior college WITH their full time college students. The school does not offer AP courses because its main program is teh the whole "early college" "college prep" thing. I wanted to ask whether him getting mostly As (with an exception of upto 3 Bs) in all his courses including both DE and High school will look bad towards Tier 1 schools? This is not a chance thread but simply a comparism with other applicants to those same schools except they have AP classes. I DONT CARE ABOUT THE CREDIT transfers at the private schools cause I know they wont accept most/all of his creds and I am fine with that. He wants to apply to med school anyways so he wills stay in any college he gets into for atleast 3 years. I am not letting him apply to med school at age 19 by finishing a BS at the nearby UTexas. He joined the school to be challenged academically and be able to witness what a college atmosphere is like. Will this look bad/neutral/good for Ivies, Top 20 schools, etc. And the courses he takes are challenging also, esp the science/math ones.</p>
<p>Bummpppppp please? Any insight?</p>
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<p>Is the situation/question significantly different from two weeks ago?:</p>
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<p>If he did fine in his courses, good recs, essays, ec’s, etc. then he should be fine. The whole early college thing is challenging for some colleges to understand so they may contact his counselor for clarification, but I am currently a senior in an early college and I was accepted to a top 25 school. He will be just fine and being in an early college shouldn’t be a hinderance.</p>
<p>I’m in the same situation as your son (except I will be transferring my credits, so that impacted which schools I applied to) and all admissions counselors I spoke with acted like DE courses are looked well upon. I would be very, very surprised if they hurt your son’s chances at all.</p>
<p>Any top college (or any college, for that matter) will understand that a dual-enrollment kid who has taken college-level classes is on par with an IB/AP student. </p>
<p>If you’re so worried (and it seems you are), I’d research the school. I know you said it was new, but have they graduated any Senior classes yet? Where did those students go? Where did students at comparable schools around Texas go? That’s your best bet for assuaging/confirming your fears. </p>
<p>Your kid seems really smart and I’m sure he’ll be fine.</p>
<p>@gettinin
That is a very good point actually! But there is a problem with that. Most of the kids in the school don’t apply outside the state or to any private schools (top 40) because they want their creds to transfer. In my son’s case, he doesn’t care either way. He just wants the best place for him for the 4 years where he can enjoy and have a great academic challenging rigor (He loves Rice and Brown like crazy)… Well to answer that, valecdictorians and salutatorians keep getting into top colleges (one got into Duke few years ago, and one got into Rice last year) while the others who want to go the credit option get into honors at the best state Univs.</p>
<p>Regardless of transferability for either credit or placement, remember that all college courses count when calculating GPAs for medical school application purposes. This can be advantageous if the DE courses pre-load the GPA with A/A+ grades, but disadvantageous if they pre-load the GPA with a lot of worse grades.</p>
<p>momlovesharvard-</p>
<p>Stop worrying about the fact that you/your son might be the first applicant in X years (or ever) at the target colleges and universities. The Ad Coms see that all the time, and will know how to evaluate your/your son’s records. Please remember that that is what they do for a living! In this particular case, there is a dual-enrollment program in effect which will make interpreting the transcript easier, not harder.</p>