How do you feel the DE classes are working out for your daughter? Do you think they helped her with her college admissions process?
While dual enrollment classes may bring down GPA, I think that showing the initiative and desire to learn beyond what the school offers outweighs the slight drop in weighted GPA, which colleges may or may not recalculate.
Dual enrollment is properly signed up for at the highschool so there is no admissions process to go through. It doesn’t sound as though what you are suggesting would be helpful.
I have dual enrollment and it has inspired some of the strangest questions about my transcripts. Dual enrollment transfers as a letter grade. Unless the University has previously agreed to acknowledge the dual enrollment, there’s no saying that the dual enrollment will transfer to your 4 year University.
AP credit displays as a ‘P’ credit on a college transcript. It does not affect your GPA.
AS and AA degrees are terminal. Please do not go to a community college and expect to transfer to a 4 year university. I know some have done this “Rudy.” But I don’t know how. It’s the last thing I would want to put myself in the position of trying.
Another point of confusion - credit towards a degree. At a 4 year University a lot of remedial classes, such as algebra, do not count as credit towards a degree. This is totally different from AP credit which counts as credit towards a degree, but not as credit on your GPA.
The dual enrollment classes available are specified in the senior year course catalog from the highschool.
Described on Northwest Florida State College’s web site.
https://www.nwfsc.edu/academics/dual-enrollment/
Post # 22: “Do not go to a community college and expect to transfer to a 4 year university.”
Please be careful about offering advice on things you apparently don’t know much about. MILLIONS of people who started at community colleges have transferred to 4-yr colleges & have wonderful careers in politics, education, business, medicine, law, the military, etc.
I forgot to make clear - the degree objective for dual enrollment is a highschool diploma and no other.
Otherwise, I think people are confusing it with transfer credit.
That isn’t the right way to put it, dual enrollment is for the highschool diploma, the transfer credit from dual enrollment is for a bachelor’s degree.
Alright, now I see. Credit can be transferred once, so transferred dual enrollment can count for an associates degree or a bachelor’s degree. Both only if you go to the community college for which dual enrollment was offerred? Does that work? is that the sticking point? If you are “dual enrollment” status at a community college and switch to “degree seeking” does the credit automatically switch over for you, or is that a transfer? I don’t know.
The biggest problem with dual enrollment is that the instructors, who are employees of community colleges, will tell their highschool students to meet 3 times a week. Like a college class. This causes resentment amongst faculty and students in the highschool.