<p>^^zoos, true for private colleges, but publics, by definition, are pretty credit-friendly.</p>
<p>Another consideration if applying to UC schools: the UC gpa calculation method does not weight grades in dual enrollment classes like it does AP classes.</p>
<p>^^that is not true. An IGETCG, transferable, course does count for the bonus point as I understand it. Indeed, any transferable college course will count for the bonus point, but the total is still capped for eligibility purposes.</p>
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<p>Note, however, that even tho a college course may cover two semester’s worth of HS material, it only counts for one grade in the UC gpa calculation.</p>
<p>Blue, it didn’t for DD two years ago. What is “IGETCG”? She was applying as OOS and, given that she got in at Berkeley, I think adcoms took note, but her application did not reflect any weighting (not honors courses either, because OOS honors classes are not weighted).</p>
<p>IGETC is a transfer agreement between California jucos and UC and CSU system. Thus, it certifies that the Calculus course at a juco, for example, has a syllabus that covers the similar material at a four year school.</p>
<p>Yes, OOS kids are differentially-treated, since they don’t have the opportunity for UC-approved honors courses. I know AP/IB courses count for the bonus point for OOS< but unsure about college courses taken during HS. My guess would be that they would.</p>
<p>And no, your UC app will not show any gpa, which is automatically calculated by the UC computers in behind the curtain. And just for full disclosure, UC calculates and reviews three gpa’s for admissions: unweighted; weighted-capped with no more than 8 bonus points (used for eligibility only); and weighted-uncapped.</p>
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<p>Nothing wrong with those three requirements. Our son took a year of dual-enrollment
courses from five institutions and they all met those requirements except for three that were online but there was no indication on the transcripts that they were online. They were all standard university courses though. Two of the online courses had proctored exams. The third was a grad course.</p>
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<p>There are universities that are offering dual credit courses online taught by the professors that get around this. You will probably have more luck transfering those credits than those taught by high school teachers. </p>
<p>It seems like many private schools are not accepting dual credit, but dual credit mainly exists for students to save $$ on college tuition. If you’re child is heading to a private university it doesn’t seem like saving $$ was your main objective. </p>
<p>Dual credit is a great help to families that would otherwise not be able to afford to send their kids off to a state school.</p>
<p>Here’s my frustration with AP credit, which would also apply to dual enrollment credit: By the time the freshman get to register for classes, often the only classes open are the “intro to” classes. If your student doesn’t need English 101 or Psych 101 but needs the next class which is already full, what does he take?</p>
<p>Uhhh…The UC’s only use your AP exam score to assign credit- the class grade never shows up on the transcript…however all ACT,SAT 1 an SAT2 show up on the transcript of the UC you are attending which means Grad school will see…doesn’t matter if you only sent in ACT and SAT2- there the SAT1 is! In Cali you have to score above 550 in M @ CR or you have to test out of remedial math and english class. Just FYI</p>
<p>S2, college soph., took two dual enrollment classes as a h.s senior at our CC. In our state , many CC classes transfer to the state u’s. Both the CC’s and the state u’s have pages on their websites that tell you exactly which classes transfer and what class they will fulfill at the state u.</p>
<p>missypie, good classes to take at CC’s for transfer credit are those in general ed. requirements that don’t have a successive class as a req.
For instance S2’s univ. has Sociology 101 as a gen. ed. req. There are no other required
Sociology classes for gen. ed reqs. So he took Soc. 101 at the CC and it was just one less class he had to sched. in during his freshman yr. He is also req. to take several Humanities/Fine Arts classes to fulfill gen. ed. requirements. Art Apprecation at the CC knocked off one of those classes for him.<br>
S1’s 5 in APUSH got him six hours of credit for History at his state u. So he didn’t have to take any more history classes in college.</p>
<p>It’s easy to look ahead on the required classes list and fill in the sched. S2 took an intro computer class (that he was supposed to take as a soph) in place of the Soc. class. As long as the classes don’t have pre-reqs., they can really play with the order in which they are taken. S1 didn’t take his freshman level PE class until spring. sem of senior yr.</p>
<p>In Texas…</p>
<p>Eggson took dual enrollment classes in communication, government and economics. LAC counted 9 hours: 3 for government and 6 as general electives. </p>
<p>LAC also counted APs: 6 hours for English Lang and Lit, 4 for Calculus I and 3 for World History. I think world history was counted only as a general elective, perhaps because he took it as a sophomore.</p>