<p>Any experience with limits on dual enrollment credits in high school? Can a high schooler take 4 classes at the state U and still be considered a high school student, as opposed to matriculating as a University student? Does it depend on the U?</p>
<p>DS will take 2 classes at the local U next year through the high school PSEO program. He is wondering if the following year, senior year, he can take 4 classes. We know the high school only allows them to take up to 12 credit hours per semester. He would do this as a homeschooler (he homeschooled grades 1-8 and part time grade 9). He does not want to end up as a transfer student by the end of high school.</p>
<p>It depends on the policy at the colleges that your kids are interested in.</p>
<p>Our son could have gone in as a freshman or transfer. He missed the freshman application deadline (due to a very long illness) so he applied as a transfer with a year of dual-enrollment credits. The downside is that all of the good merit aid packages were only for freshman admits.</p>
<p>Policies on dual-enrollment credits are all over the place so look at the policies of the schools that he’s interested in.</p>
<p>The decision of whether a student is a new freshman or a transfer is up to the college accepting the students. Whether or not to accept any credits earned through DE is up to the college. HOW to accept DE credits is also up to the college. My employer is considering not accepting any for credit in the major, only as gen Ed distribution or elective. More selective institutions sometimes won’t accept anything for which a student received high school credit.</p>
<p>Does it have its own placement testing for sequenced courses like math and foreign language, so that students who know the material well from non-accepted dual enrollment courses do not have to wastefully repeat what they already know?</p>
<p>That’s the issue of advanced standing which is also a consideration. Some colleges may not give credit for a course in meeting degree requirements but they would allow you the student to take a higher-level course.</p>
<p>Another thing about accepting credit is that some schools won’t accept credits that were not earned on campus. This could exclude online courses and courses taught by a college professor at a high-school campus.</p>
<p>The main question, though, was about admission status - transfer vs freshman - but it would be nice to have the credits transfer if your son gets that status that he wants.</p>
<p>My homeschooled son had 102 dual-enrollment credits. Years before graduation, we emailed all colleges of interest, and got the unanimous answer that if he wasn’t graduated, and he was dual-enrolled, he was a freshman. I’d recommend you write to your colleges of interest.</p>
<p>He ended up being accepted as a freshman to Harvey Mudd, Caltech, Rice, Colorado College, Rose Hulman, Colorado School of Mines (where presumably all of his credits would have transferred), and Case Western, and made it onto the WUStL waitlist as a freshman applicant. None of the colleges he applied to questioned his application (and he was only rejected from WUStL), even though we sent the CC transcripts as additional transcripts on the Common App. At Mudd, Rose Hulman, Mines, Case Western, Rice, and Colorado College, he was offered freshman merit scholarships (some of them only small Nat’l Merit ones). </p>
<p>He chose Mudd, where he got no credit for pre-college classes, but he did have placement tests to place him appropriately in classes. He even earned an associate’s degree (with Mudd’s knowledge) after Mudd’s acceptance and before home school high school graduation.</p>
<p>Feel free to PM me if you want more - I love dual-enrollment!</p>
<p>@BCEagle, I don’t, but I tell people about it a lot. I’ll try to put something together! I’ll PM you when I do. I’m not likely to get it on the web since I don’t have a web site, but I’ve sent dozens of copies of his sanitized transcript by email and told people to feel free to pass it on.</p>
<p>We paid for all the classes ourselves (Community college is cheaper than private school!) and he was not limited in the amount of classes he took. I suppose there might have been an issue if he’d tried to overload, but I don’t think he ever took more than 15 credits. He started the semester he turned 12 and just kept at it until he was “ready” to go away.</p>
<p>In our state a high school junior or senior can be take classes full time at the flagship, for free, even live on campus (pay for that), and still be considered a college student. What you DO want to look into is if any of those credits will transfer to the chosen college. Some colleges take them, some do not.</p>
<p>My D’ has 51 DE credits and it is my understanding that any credits obtained as a DE student will not prevent a student from applying to colleges as a first time freshman.</p>
<p>OP,
i don’t think 4 classes is anything to be worried about. Some colleges may accept these classes, or allow him to skip intro classes. </p>
<p>Its been too long ago, but my son had at least 15 classes at a U between soph and junior year of HS. Had he stayed around for senior year, only taking English 4 at HS and rest at U, some schools told him he would be considered as a transfer. CMU considered him a sophomore. Where he ended up going, APs and college classes did not matter. He did call a few colleges, which prompted him to apply early to college.</p>
<p>As i said, 4 classes will not present a problem.</p>
I’ll PM you when I do. I’m not likely to get it on the web since I don’t have a web site, but I’ve sent dozens of copies of his sanitized transcript by email and told people to feel free to pass it on.</p>