My school offers a Dual Credit program that is run by a local community college. I’ve been searching up and down trying to find out which colleges give credit for these courses, but even if I go to a specific college’s site I can’t seem to find it. I know many colleges don’t give credit because they don’t consider a community college course to be as rigorous as an AP or IB course. I just want to know how to find a specific college’s policy before I jump right in.
You can usually find general policies by looking up “transfer credit” or “college credit earned in high school.” For example, my school’s page is [url=<a href=“https://case.edu/ugstudies/academic-policies/transfer-credit-other-colleges/%5Dhere%5B/url”>https://case.edu/ugstudies/academic-policies/transfer-credit-other-colleges/]here[/url]. You probably won’t know for sure whether your credit will transfer based on the information available on the website, but you’ll know (for example) whether or not they accept dual-enrollment classes taken on a high school campus.
When I transferred my dual-enrollment classes, I had to send copies of my syllabi (so make sure you’re keeping those!) and they had a professor from each department look at them and determine whether I should get credit. This allowed them to give me credit even though they might not have been familiar with those classes before I came along. If you want, you can email the admissions office about your specific situation and see what they say.
Just went through this with my youngest daughter. Write up a form email to each college that you are interested in. From their sites you can usually find out who is the person or assistant to the person in charge of transfer or transfer credits. Go on to the community college site and from their course directory copy/paste course description of each duel enrollment class. Each college will let you know what they will accept and what it will be accepted for. Generally speaking, if you are going to be a science major, Pre Med track they will not accept science courses due to lack of lab. The easiest to transfer will be the comp/freshman writing course. Intro to psych, most social science classes and Math. Need to be cognizant of how many credits each college allows you to transfer etc. For my daughters interested major she could only transfer 15/16 depending on school. The higher rated schools less likely to accept duel enrollment classes if they were taken as a high school class. Each college will be helpful, just might take a few emails
Most of my dual-enrollment classes were evaluated by the corresponding departments after I committed to the school and submitted syllabi. The people in the undergraduate studies office probably don’t know about every course in every department to the point where they can determine what credit you’ll get, especially if they only have the short catalog descriptions. My university does list some correspondences between their lower-level classes and classes offered at nearby community colleges, though.
If you want to get the most credits from Dual Enrollment you probably want to look at your State U.