<p>School policies vary and the OP needs to check with their specific school. Certain courses taught at our high school through the dual enrollment program agreement with our CC were weighted the same as AP or honors, but anything done outside this box, for instance taking a more advanced course on a college campus, gave no credit or weighting.</p>
<p>@MiamiDAP, I think telling a high school student to take a college class in a subject they hate is a poor idea. You don’t know yet what program they will attend and whether there will be far more appealing ways to satisfy any distribution requirements. </p>
<p>My (private) high school offered a dual enrollment option for seniors- certain classes offered as core or elective classes (like English, precalculus, calculus, public speaking, foreign language, etc) were given at a college level to everybody and we could choose whether or not to pay for the credits (from a local, not-amazing college). I decided not to pay for them to start with (they wouldn’t be accepted at the college I wanted to go to, which ended up being where I’m going ), but those who did got a shock when they realized that the grades on their high school transcript would be copy pasted to their college transcripts, that it wasn’t just P/F, and that the annoying English teacher who graded so strictly wasn’t just a temporary annoyance…</p>