<p>I'm a junior in high school, and I take all honors classes with some AP ones. I'm considering doing dual enrollment next year, where I take all my classes at the local community college. Will that look better, worse, or not matter when I'm applying to college?</p>
<p>Well, if you will have exhausted your high school’s offerings, taking transferable-to-university courses at the community college is the next obvious step.</p>
<p>Generally, taking college courses in high school looks good. One thing to be aware of is that if you want to apply to medical school later, dual enrollment college courses taken while you are in high school do count to your college GPA for medical school purposes. Getting all A grades will help, of course, but getting lower grades will hurt, even though they may otherwise not be relevant at your four year college (as long as you passed and transferred credit).</p>
<p>What courses would you take in dual enrollment, and what courses would you take otherwise?</p>
<p>I want to be a computer science major, so I’ll probably take a bunch of computer classes. Also it’s required for students in dual enrollment to take English classes. If I stayed in high school I would plan on taking a boatload of AP classes, such as calculus, stats, computer science, french, literature, and some other science classes. Basically my entire schedule would be AP classes.</p>