Hi All,
My county has a program that allows seniors to obtain half of their AA degree by the time that they graduate high school; So during my senior year I am enrolled at our local college and also enrolled at my high school but I only take classes at our local college. My question is do colleges frown upon this instead of AP? I’ve heard that some don’t consider dual enrollment courses to be as challenging and I am worried about whether this will hurt my chances for admissions?
Semester 1:
College Algebra
Studies in Applied Ethics
Composition 2
Intro To Economics
Intro To Humanities
Semester 2:
Trigonometry
Intro To Chem
Western Humanities
Intro To Speech
Biological Science
It depends on the college big fella.
Is that schedule required or did you pick it out yourself?
Have you taken precalculus already? FOreign language through level 4?
What universities are you hoping for?
Would you keep going with your EC’s at the HS or drop them?
Generally, colleges view DE as equal to AP as long as the DE is in the same state as the college in question. If you go out of state, chances are, your credits are still going to be accepted (at least most of them), but keep in mind that colleges out of state don’t have much of an idea as to what you had to do to earn the grades you earned in your DE classes compared to the idea that a grade in an AP class does or a score on an AP exam (though exam scores don’t matter for admissions). Judging from your past posts, you seem to be in Florida (I am in FL and I also took SLS1101 summer between junior/senior year), and Florida has a college system where all credits are guaranteed to transfer in state if the last three digits of the course number and prefix match.
OP, I hope you don’t mind me stalking your threads; @MYOS1634, they’ve taken Spanish IV Honors sophomore year and Trig Honors junior year.
@MYOS1634 The college gives us a list of courses that satisfy the portions of the AA so I choose a course from each section of the requirements. No, I have not take Pre-Calc yet but I only need 6 credit hours for my AA for math so College Algebra and Trig would be easiest since I took Analysis and Trig this year and it would satisfy my math credits. I’m hoping for universities likes UCF, UF, USF, FSU, UT, and other florida colleges. Yes, but I would have to drop one of them. I would be in NHS, Student Gov’t, Relay for Life, and my Volunteering position. I am debating on either doing academic team or student government though? any opinions?
@r2v2018 Yeah, I’m from the Tampa Bay area; thanks for your help!
@r2v2018
In my opinion, your schedule is pretty competitive for all of those schools. I got into UF for Fall 2018 with around a 4.5 UF GPA, 25th percentile SATs (1300), 8 APs, and extensive dual enrollment, so I think you have a pretty strong chance. I am also a legacy and I wrote a pretty heartfelt essay, so those couldn’t have hurt, either.