I'm currently a sophomore enrolled in AP Calculus BC, which is the highest course offered at my high school. My high school requires at least 3 years of math, however, I want to have 4 years of math online my transcript when applying for college. I'm planning on taking AP Statistics at my high school next year with a multivariable calculus course, and differential equations and linear algebra senior year, however, I do not know where to take these course. I asked my counselor, who said it would be best for me to take it at a local community college so I get college credit for it. I checked the times of the classes at my local community colleges, but none of them seem to work well with my high school schedule. Furthermore, I don't know if the courses would be on my high school transcript when I apply for colleges if I took them for college credit (I don't want it to say that I only took 3 years of math).
I've recently been looking into online dual-enrollment courses, which from my understanding, gives both college and high school credit for the course. I don't know which college is most reliable to take the dual-enrollment course from. Does anyone have experience with an online dual-enrollment course that they would like to share. Thank you!
When applying for college, 4 years of math does not mean you actually need the 4 years of math to be taken in high school. For instance, since you’re taking AP Calc, I assume you’ve already taken Algebra 1, 2, Geometry, and Pre-Calculus. So in this case, you’ve taken 5 years of math already, plus with AP Statistics next year that’s 6. When colleges say “years” of a subject, they don’t mean that you need to take a math class every year of high school, because obviously some students are going to exhaust all the courses their school offers before senior year and may not be able to take CC courses and colleges know that. A lot of my friends have this same circumstance- they took Algebra 1 in seventh grade and therefore finished Calc junior year and didn’t have anything to take senior year because they’d already taken the maximum number of “years” of math that our school offered. I hope that makes sense. But basically, don’t sweat it if the CC course thing doesn’t work out, because you’ve exhausted the classes your school offers and colleges will see that.
But as for the transcript thing, you will have to self report CC courses and send in a separate CC transcript so no they won’t be on your high school transcript but rather your CC transcript. However, I would stay wary of online courses, because a lotttt of times colleges don’t count these for credit and also online courses are not the best option for higher level mathematics like multivariable calc in my opinion.