How Does Dual Enrollment Work?

<p>I will be beginning my junior year of high school and am hoping to take some classes at a local community college. How exactly does dual enrollment work? Do you get credit for the class both as a high school course AND a college course??? (meaning I get double the credits) I'm not sure I completely understand how it all works and would appreciate ANY information that you could give me on the subject. Thank you in advance!</p>

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<p>You are enrolled in both institutions and can take classes at both. Depending on your state, this may be free or not. In Ohio, for example, I’m able to be a full-time dual-enrollment student at a university because the courses are free. (They would let me live in the dorms, but I’d have to pay for that.)</p>

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<p>Generally yes, but it depends on your school’s policies. My school considers one dual-enrollment course to be 0.6 of a HS credit because of some technicality, so where I live it’s hard to do dual enrollment unless you’ve already met all your graduation requirements. </p>

<p>As far as transferring dual-enrollment credits to another college or university, some will only transfer the DE credit if the course was taught at a college and the credit wasn’t used to meet high school graduation requirements. </p>

<p>AP is better than DE unless
a) AP is not offered at your school
b) your school doesn’t have the AP equivalent of a DE class you want to take
c) you’re taking a DE course above the level of an AP class (organic chemistry, for example).</p>

<p>Wait…so if you take community college classes while still in high school, it’s helpful, but if you go to community colleges after you graduate from high school, it’s detrimental (to the admissions process I mean)? Right or wrong?</p>

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<p>In my estimation, it’s more helpful than honors and less helpful than AP, except in the situations I listed above. Dual enrollment can also be done at universities or LACs, though that would probably be infeasible if your state required you to pay for the courses.</p>

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<p>Not necessarily. A lot of people do better at community college than they did in high school, and this allows them to transfer to a better four-year college than they would have gotten into otherwise.</p>