<p>Concurrent courses that you take in a local college at the same with your high school courses?</p>
<p>If your already taking AP does it help much? Im guessing that you receive credits from the community colleges but I think some top 4 year colleges don't accept them and only the AP's.</p>
<p>Yes, you can also get college credits for AP and IB. But not everyone takes a class just because it might be used for college credit.</p>
<p>It’s an education. At the end of this semester, I’ll have 79 college credits and an Associate’s Degree thanks to Dual Enrollment. Whether or not any of those credits transfer where I go, it was worth it. College classes far outplace AP classes (in my experience) for the teaching quality and style and information learned. Further, I don’t imagine I could have taken five AP history or two AP philosophy or two AP sociology courses. The breadth of course offerings offered me far more than my school’s AP program. I learned astronomy in a planetarium, an Air Force Academy professor with a PhD taught me psychology, an amazing history professor with degrees from half the top colleges in the world taught two of my favorite courses, my philosophy professor, after his PhD, did advanced work on the ethics of nuclear power for the government, most of my instructors had “Dr.” in front of their name and deserved it. It was a great education, and far better than if I had continued with the AP program.</p>
<p>Not every program is for everyone, but examining your options is important. There is, however, no claiming that dual enrollment doesn’t have a point.</p>
<p>I take dual enrollment English. I don’t how it works with your high school/district but if you pass all three college English classes (Each class is about two months each) needed for high school English credit, you earn nine college credits, three for each class. You get the same amount of credits whether you made an A or C and most public colleges in my state will accept the credit.</p>
<p>If you’re wondering whether it’s worth taking or not, ask colleges you want to attend if they’ll take dual enrollment credits from the community college your high school has a program with.</p>
<p>I agree with BillyMc. I’m earning my AA with 62 credits (I didn’t take many APs). It’s worth it because some credits will transfer (esp. if I stay in-state), but having a degree is a great boost on a job application while trying to find a PT job in college. The professors add more life to the class than standard AP styles, and I learned A LOT. Seriously, more than any AP class can provide. And the availability of classes is great. That’s how I found out my major instead of being undecided. It’s your choice in the end, but just remember the degree, class offerings, and unique learning experience.</p>
<p>oo!! btw, if you decide to go to Penn (top 4 year college), they will accept some transfer credit under certain conditions (my friend got accepted there, so that’s a fact for sure).</p>
<p>Peace.</p>
<p>More private out of state colleges will accept your credits than you’d think. As far as top 20 schools, and ivy’s, many of them don’t take a lot of AP credits anyway, and if they do, only 5’s and sometimes 4’s. At least with dual enrollment you’re guaranteed to be placed in higher level courses. (I spoke with an admissions counselor at Brown about this- they don’t accept DE for credit, but you do get to skip a lot of gen-ed requirements and go on to higher-level courses, which you take more of to fulfill requirements). Dual-enrollment has prepared me far more for college than any AP class ever could, which supposedly is its purpose. High schools push AP so much b/c they get paid for it, and they lose out when kids turn to DE.</p>
<p>Wow guys thanks for the detailed responses. </p>
<p>The general view of DE courses are positive so far, but in relation to the high school GPA would the college courses detrimentally affect it if they’re on the transcript? As the worth of an A in the cc is 4 but in APs it is worth a 5.</p>
<p>And also, how many people do Dual Enrollment? I never really knew about them until recently.</p>
<p>Thanks again CC community</p>
<p>Hm that’s unfortunate, in my school district DE and AP are weighted the same. So if your class rank is based on weighted GPA, it would probably affect that. If your school doesn’t rank, or ranks based on unweighted or some other formula, that’s a different story. I would say that if you’re only going to replace AP with DE, don’t do it (i.e. taking Gen Bio instead of AP Bio, or a gov class at the college instead of AP American Government and not taking any electives as DE). But if you plan on taking classes that aren’t offered as AP, such as philosophy, higher level math or science, etc. then go for it (and also take your core classes DE). I think a schedule of 5 DE classes a semester looks better than 2 or 3 AP’s and some honors. Also, if you have a specific interest, I would recommend taking specific DE classes for it; look up what classes are under your area of interest in the course catalog- that will also look good to colleges.</p>
<p>I’ve wondered this too. I really enjoy learning about physics and want to take a class over the summer. However, I think it’s pointless because I’ll end up taking AP Physics anyway next year. I really want to learn more about physics, but I feel if I take a summer class and then dual enroll during the school year, it would be less ‘appealing’ to colleges if I just took normal AP Physics.</p>