<p>Hi, I'm in 10th grade and starting cyber school (21CCCS) next year so that I'll have more time in the day to take classes at a local community college or even to take some AP classes. But what I'd like to know is, does it even matter if I take it online or at the school? Or should I not do dual enrollment at all and would taking AP classes be better?</p>
<p>I'm planning on taking the following courses before I graduate:
Physics H (in summer school)
English 3 & 4 H
AP Economics
AP Psychology
AP Statistics
Trig H
Spanish 4 H
AP Spanish
Web design
History H
Calculus AB</p>
<p>If I do dual enrollment, I'd be taking intro to business, business math, psychology, economics, some sort of public speaking course, web design, and spanish.</p>
<p>Also, I don't really get how AP credits would transfer over to a community college.</p>
<p>If you do in-person classes, your teachers will know you better and be able to write better recommendations. You’ll also meet more teachers who you like enough and who like you enough to write letters at all. </p>
<p>And I wouldn’t bother transferring the AP classes to the CC unless necessary so that you can take more advanced classes. YOu can transfer them to your eventual four-year college.</p>
<p>My son was very happy to take lots of dual-enrollment classes, all on campus.</p>
<p>In terms of the content, it shouldn’t matter. But like GeekMom says, in person classes will help with the recommendations. Not that it’s always indicated on the transcript but it also shows admission people that you are “socialized,” can handle being in a class. The main point for my son taking the community colleges was for the recommendations.</p>
<p>My kids are in 10th and 11th grade and do college dual enrollment along with high school (and some online high school virtual classes to deal with scheduling issues). They take some college classes online and most on campus, again mainly because of scheduling issues (or because all the on-campus classes with the good teachers are already full). </p>
<p>They feel they learn and enjoy the in-person classes more. Feels more like college. I have heard that some universities will not accept dual enrollment if it is an online class (but that is probably the exception and not the rule).</p>
<p>I’m homeschooled and taking dual enrollment classes. I’ve found that in-person classes make a nice change of pace if you’re already taking all your other classes at home. You can get out of the house, participate in class discussions, and meet people on campus.</p>
<p>Do a mix of both. In our experience colleges prefer to see AP for the known rigor (some cc classes are good, others not so much, and they don’t really know how to tell the difference if a course comes from outside their experience), but like DE classes from homeschoolers to ensure they can function well in a classroom, plus, as others have said, getting LORs from profs is good.</p>
<p>Long sentence above. Sorry about that. I’m in a bit of a time crunch so will hope it’s understandable. Short answer - do some of each with AP preferred for rigor, cc preferred for classroom experience. Note too that many upper level colleges won’t give credit (or only elective credit) for DE, but will for most AP (4 or 5). State schools don’t care and will give credit for either (generally down to a 3). Choose on campus for DE. Otherwise, there’s no advantage to it.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone, I appreciate the feedback. I have decided to take 2-3 AP classes/exams from my school and the rest at an on-campus local community college.</p>