<p>Hey CCers, so I've got a problem with my classes for next year and I need some advice. Currently (Jr year), I am taking Dual Enrollment Physics and Precalc as well as an Engineering course. I get VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University) credits for the Precalc and Physics (They count as AP classes when factoring them in to my GPA), but the Engineering course is only an honors class. I also take AP Lang, AP USH, and another Honors history class. I can only take SIX classes because I have to travel to a different school to take the Dual Enrollment classes and it takes about 20 minutes to get there and 20 minutes to get back to my home school. Knowing all of this I took the opportunity thinking I would be learning, essentially, what would be AP Physics and Honors Math Analysis/Trig at my home school. I recently did some research and I found that the Physics book (Holt Physics) we use in my class is used for Honors level Physics at my home school. </p>
<p>As a result of the dual enrollment program i'm doing, I am only taking 6 classes this year, 1 of which is a useless engineering class (Not useless, but absolutely not worth taking even though I plan on being an engineer). Next year i'm scheduled to take VCU Chemistry, VCU Calculus, and Advanced Engineering as well as FOUR (as opposed to three this year) other classes at my home school. I feel like it is not a good idea continuing in this program because the Chemistry class will probably be taught out of an Honors level book and I plan on doing something with chemistry in college. At my home school, however, I could take AP Chemistry, AP Calc AB/BC, and another class along with the other 4 I am planning to take.</p>
<p>Basically I can either continue my dual enrollment program and take
VCU Chem, VCU Calc, Advanced Engineering, AP Bio, AP Stat, AP Gov, and AP Lit
or
AP Chem, AP Bio, AP Calc, AP Stat, AP Gov, AP Lit, and another class of my choice at my home school. </p>
<p>The DE classes i'm taking IMO are a joke and I maintain a high A in all 3 of them. The teachers are not top notch even though one has a PhD in Physics (I have him for all 3 classes this year) and the other, I think, has a BS in Chemistry (I will have her next year).</p>
<p>Would it be a good idea to drop my dual enrollment classes next year? Will colleges understand why I dropped them? I could possibly get my counselor to write in my recommendation that the program wasn't rigorous enough and I dropped it to take AP classes that are harder. Also, will my 6 classes in JR year affect the decision of colleges? I feel like I've been lied to and ruined my most important year in high school :(. Sorry for the long page of text... I felt like I needed to explain EVERYTHING. If I left anything out, please leave a post and I will reply, thanks.</p>