<p>I was wondering how some of the top colleges (Ivies, Rice, WUSTL, Vandy, Georgetown, etc.) feel about Dual Enrollment. I will have taken about 9 Dual Enrollment classes that will appear on my transcript. I have absolutely no illusions about getting credit for these classes. However, I was just wondering how schools felt as these as opposed to, lets say, AP classes (I have about 8 of those too). Comments are appreciated. Thank you.</p>
<p>When the courses are equivalent, AP is better than dual enrollment.
Dual enrollment is a good option when:
a) your school doesn’t offer an equivalent AP course
b) you’re taking courses above the level of AP (like if you took AP Chem and you want to take organic chemistry through dual enrollment)</p>
<p>Depending on the courses and where they were taken, I think you should be able to expect getting at least a few credits.</p>
<p>I took a few humanities and social science classes (psychology, sociology, etc) as well as AP Psych but many of my classes might just look like obvious GPA boosters (college english, college algebra)</p>
<p>The advantage for adcoms of AP classes is that they are somewhat standardized. College Board establishes the curriculum and maintains standards.</p>
<p>DE classes have no such governing body - they have local control by either the school district or college.</p>
<p>If you can define the rigor of the DE classes on your transcript or application, it will certainly work to your advantage. However, this is difficult to do when adcom have only a few minutes to evaluate your total application.</p>
<p>Assuming you are in Florida, the Florida public universities should be able to tell what your courses are, due to Florida’s common course numbering scheme.</p>
<p>Private and out-of-state universities may not know too much about your courses, though. Save the syllabus of each course if you want to get any kind of transfer credit or placement for it. AP scores are easier to interpret for them, although they won’t help if you take college courses more advanced than AP courses or tests or for which there are no equivalent AP courses or tests.</p>
<p>If you take a dual enrollment course that is a college course that an AP test is supposed to be equivalent of, you may want to take the AP test as well. You won’t get double credit, but you may find that some universities prefer one or the other for transfer credit or placement, so having both the course and the AP score can simplify things at whatever university you go to.</p>
<p>If you intend to go to medical or law school, be aware that grades in college courses taken in high school do count for your GPA for applying to medical or law school.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses. I know that if I end up staying in-state, all the credit should transfer but I’m not expecting to get more than a few electives credits, if anything, for top OOS colleges. I just wanted to know more of how they look to admissions officers.</p>