<p>Basically, are dual credit classes looked upon as AP courses where you receive credit for your score on the exam, except in this case you'd receive credit for taking the class at a local CC?
If you take dual credit courses in the summer, when you start to apply to colleges does the credit make you a transfer student or are you still considered a first year student? This is of course depending on whether the university accepts such credit. Do any of you think Penn or Emory will if it comes from an OOS college? I'm prepared to ask their admissions offices if need be...</p>
<p>Nevermind! I guess it varies by college, but I just found out Penn’s policy from their website under Penn Admissions FAQ. Apparently if you are a senior completing a dual-enrollment program you apply as a college freshman, not a transferring student. I think I’ll peruse Emory’s website next and see if I can find their policy.</p>
<p>What we found out, it varies from school to school. Generally, if the dual credit is for a required for graduation class, most private college/universities will not accept dual credit but will accept AP if it is a 4 or 5. State schools have a completely different policy. My D’s high school heavily pushes dual credit since most kids go to the local state school, my daughter was applying to four privates that we knew would not accept those credits, so she took all AP’s. She will enter her freshmen year with 56 credits after taking 8 AP’s.</p>
<p>It depends upon the program,the university. My son’s dual credit courses are accepted anywhere that has a similar course to that taken, from what the GC told us, and from what others have said. Some schools simply will not accept credits from college courses without an equivalence in their offerings. My son’s college has that exception. </p>
<p>However, that is not always the case with a number of dual enrollment programs. Especially with community colleges, I’ve noticed. Schools in the state system, the state schools often do, but not most colleges. </p>
<p>My one son entered his college with sophomore year standing due to college courses he took over summers (not dual enrollment) and APs. Another had no trouble getting college credit from his top 25 national university for a community college course. They asked for info on the course, and granted credit without a murmur when my son submitted the requested info which is standard there if you want outside credit applied to the school. Yet. I know kids who did dual enrollment, and the colleges would not accept ANY of those credits, don’t know why not, perhaps as Murmur says, if the course is used as a high school grad req, some schools will not let it count dually, which seems unfair if AP courses are not so treated, though that does depend upon the AP exam grade. But to count the same community college course taken independent of Dual arrangement, but no if it is, really seems crazy to me, but, yes, that is the case with one school I know. Also, it would take my son’s dual credit course which is also counted as course for his high school. It’s not called dual enrollment and the way it is handled seems to be the reason for that treatment. It puzzles me, I can tell you. </p>
<p>The private schools are probably trying to find a way to minimize the amount of transfer credit given to entering frosh without excluding transfer credit for actual transfer students. After all, they cannot have too many students graduating early and not paying tuition the full 8 semesters.</p>
<p>Public schools have the opposite motivation, in that each semester that an in-state student stays costs a semester of in-state tuition subsidy. So they want students to graduate as quickly as they can, so they are often generous with transfer credit.</p>
<p>Of course, at any school, policies for subject credit and placement into more advanced courses may differ from the policies on credit units. For example, a school might not grant credit units for dual enrollment courses or AP scores, but allow some of them to fulfill subject requirements to give placement into more advanced courses. Or it might grant credit units, but not apply them to any subject requirement that the student needs for his/her major or breadth requirements.</p>