<p>see thread: AP or Dual enrollement? on the College Admissions board.</p>
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My daughter who is at Reed college majoring in biology, has been taking a community college class each summer, to enable her not to have to overload during the school year. She has the course approved beforehand, and takes classes that aren't offered at Reed, like geology and they are approved to meet her college graduation requirements.
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<p>Precisely: Reed pre-approved your D's plan, presumably knowing the quality of the cc. This is not an option available to high schoolers applying to colleges. Presumably, too, your D is no longer eligible to take AP classes. You are really not comparing like with like. I would bet that Harvard has no problem accepting courses taken from Stanford through EPGY (I KNOW it has). But courses from Roxbury College? Never heard of that happening.</p>