Question about Dual Enrollment

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>I have a hypothetical question about dual enrollment vs AP and I would totally appreciate if you guys would be kind enough to help me. </p>

<p>In my school, the weights go this way:
Ap: 5.0
Honors: 4.5
Standard: 4.0</p>

<p>I think a lot of you are familiar with that scale. </p>

<p>Dual enrollment is a regular 4.0... if it's a SPECIAL class, it may be 4.5..</p>

<p>Let's take an example:
Let's assume one student takes 7 AP's. Another student takes 6 AP's and 1 dual enrollment (regular). </p>

<p>Who would have the higher GPA, assuming they make A's in all of it? </p>

<p>Now let's say the dual enrolled class was 4.5. And the person did it both semesters. </p>

<p>Now who? And how much higher?</p>

<p>Or...</p>

<p>Let's take this example:</p>

<p>A student takes 4 AP's and 3 Honor's.
The other student takes 3 AP's, 3 Honor's, and 1 Normal Dual enrolled class (IDK yet but let's assume it's both semester).</p>

<p>Who would have the higher GPA?</p>

<p>I'm totally completely curious, that's all. Please help me, if you'd like :) </p>

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<p>Oh and please assume they make A’s in all of it. </p>

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<p>Isn’t this just a simple algebra problem?
Student 1 - A Student 2 - B</p>

<p>Standard - X X = 4
Honors - Y Y = 4.5
AP - Z Z = 5
Dual - X1 X1 = 4</p>

<p>Dual = Standard if not special</p>

<p>A = 4(Z) + 3(Y)
B = 3(Z) + 3(Y) + 1(X1)</p>

<p>A = 4(5) + 3(4.5)
B = 3(5) + 3(4.5) + 1(4)</p>

<p>A = 20 + 13.5
B = 15 + 13.5 + 4</p>

<p>A = 33.5
B = 32.5</p>

<p>Student A would.</p>

<p>Please correct me if I’m wrong.</p>

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<p>The one with the more AP classes would obviously have a higher GPA if it is weighted that way. I’m pretty sure that I know what this is about, and I think that you should take AP. Dual Enroll once you run out of AP’s, and colleges may weight everything differently. But,`if you want to be val, then take AP.</p>

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<p>Don’t worry too much about your weighted GPA when you’re trying to decide between dual enrollment and AP. AP is better in a lot of cases because it’s more standardized, but usually there are more course options with dual enrollment (assuming you’re talking about taking classes on a college campus) and that makes it more worthwhile for some people. </p>

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<p>@tacoperson123‌ Hahaha yes you’re right, that’s what it’s about. I’m gonna take AP :slight_smile: </p>

<p>@Teyrkis‌ Thank you for solving that like Algebra for me and putting it in a detailed way so I can make a good comparison out of it, that’s so super helpful</p>

<p>@tacoperson123‌ @Teyrkis‌ THANK YOU SO MUCH you guys made me feel a lot better about my status as just taking AP’s for the time being :slight_smile: Yay thank you :))))))</p>

<p>and thank you @halcyonheather‌ that’s really good advice. </p>