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Ok, so I am a rising senior looking to do dual enrollment at my local community college, but I have some questions.
- Do they allow any student to take these courses?
- How expensive are they?
- Are the times/schedules usually flexible?
- Can I choose whatever courses I want and as many or as few as I want?
- If I do bad in a course, does it count for anything? Like will med schools see them?
- Will I be able to do it during my school year?
- What grades are required in these classes for college credit?
- How many classes are needed to "shave" years off of undergrad?
Questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 are specific to the college and high school. Ask them.
For 5, courses and grades will be considered when you apply for admission to undergraduate schools and graduate or professional schools (including medical and law schools).
For 7 and 8, that depends on the transfer policies of the undergraduate school you eventually attend. For credits that do transfer, most schools on a semester system use a credit counting system where 120 to 128 credits are needed to graduate, so that each 15 or 16 credits (usually about 4 courses, since 4 credits is the most common “size” in this system) is a semester’s worth of courses. However, it is not necessarily true that a large number of credits transferred in (whether from college courses taken while in high school, AP credit, or IB credit) will reduce the number of semesters needed to graduate by as many as the number of credits may indicate, because of prerequisite requirements and sequencing for your major and other requirements that you may not have been considering or aware of when you are in high school.