<p>Then maybe they should provide that as an option, but I would not like to be with people who are just starting to experience college, as I’ve already gone through my freshman courses and finished them. It’s possible to get involved on campus without being in freshman dorms, where, at some of the schools I’m looking at, you get screwed over by having to share a bedroom or have a communal bathroom when upperclassmen have lockouts or ensuites. I’m not in a hurry to get through life, I’m trying to not waste money on an extra 12 hours. Dual enrollment is paid for, so if I have an AA when I finish dual enrollment, I see no reason for me to have to pay for another 4 classes/fees/books to be recognized at a school I want to transfer to as a transfer student. I understand that they think that the fact you did college in hs means you didn’t have a real college experience, but I know many people who graduated from hs this past May going to the same CC I’m at, typically because it’s cheaper, living at home, doing most of the same activities I’m doing (which is what I know them from), and basically having the same experience. Yet theirs is considered valid and they can transfer to an entirely different university where they may know no one and come in as a Junior but I will have to go in as a Freshman unless I get these other credits because otherwise it is “missing out on the freshman experience” when I have earned the right to be an upperclassman just the same as my friends who worked towards their AA after hs.</p>
<p>And also, my problem with this isn’t that I just have dual credit, I’m going to have an AA, which counts as a legitimate college degree, and in FL universities aren’t supposed to be able to pick and choose classes from that degree and make you take their intro/required freshman classes if you come to their school with your AA. Like if you come in with an AA they can’t make you do those as they’re freshman classes, if I just had, say, 9 credit hours from casually going to college while in hs that would be different.</p>