<p>I am taking a massive amount of dual-enrollment credit in high school through a community college and a state university (james madison university, va) and am an IB diploma candidate and if i get the diploma i will have it even before i apply to colleges which is unheard of seeing as results are given out the august after graduation i am also taking ap classes when i graduate i will have an associates degree and am hoping to finish my bachelors two years after i graduate high school
in my home state of virginia uva a top university will accept all my credits
will harvard accept them and will my chances when i apply be enhanced ( i'm a junior) because of my hard work and dedication </p>
<p>can a harvard student or alumnus/alumna help me?</p>
<p>Your high school program is HIGH SCHOOL. Here in Minnesota, the question you ask is a genuinely Frequently Asked Question, because we have a state-funded dual-enrollment program that means many ambitious students here have two years of college study completed as they graduate from high school. At EVERY college information meeting I have ever been to here, I think, and certainly at all the Harvard or Exploring College Options joint information sessions, this question comes up. Always it is a parent asking, "If my child has two years of college credit as a PSEO student, will that credit transfer to Harvard?" And always the answer is no. What you do in high school is your high school program. A strong high school program may help a lot for getting you into a strong college program. (I have read that something like 40 percent of all admitted Ivy League students have a full year of previous college study by the time they matriculate at college.) </p>
<p>Whether you want to go to an in-state college that will accept your credits for transfer, or to an Ivy League college that will have you start out as a freshman, is up to you. Students here in Minnesota decide one way or the other, depending on how much they believe in the value of an Ivy League education or how much they desire to get an undergraduate degree sooner rather than later. </p>
<p>Be very careful about accepting an associate degree for your current studies. Before you do that, which is strictly unnecessary if you are going to get a full four-year bachelor's degree, make sure that being in the associate degree program doesn't count as matriculating at an undergraduate college for purposes of determining whether you are a freshman applicant (poor chances of admission) or transfer applicant (TERRIBLE chances of admission) at an Ivy League college. </p>
<p>See Harvard's Freshmen Dean's Office publication on Advanced Standing at Harvard College </p>
<p>for more about what test scores (NOT previous courses, as such) that Harvard considers for making a student eligible for advanced standing, and why many eligible Harvard students choose not to take advanced standing. </p>
<p>Please ask follow-up questions as needed; I'm sure other students are interested in related issues.</p>