Dual Enrollment

[Anonymous]

Hello,

New private school family to a HS kiddo. Dual enrollment is strongly encouraged by in our county and is incentivized for both public and private school families through free tuition opportunities. How many students at your school utilize dual enrollment and what year do they start?

We were thinking of enrolling DS the summer of freshman year into an English 101 class. Very strong writer. I figured some of the essay themes might overlap with his curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Dual enrollment is not common at DC privates.

[Anonymous]

What is dual enrollment?

[Anonymous]

None of the top 3 schools do this.

[Anonymous]

Not in DC, but near DC.

-OP

[Anonymous]

Are you talking about enrollment at Montgomery College? English 101 is very different from the typical English lit class at a private school. Good practice and experience, sure, but I wouldn't enroll a freshman there.

[Anonymous]

MCPS will pay MC tuition if a kid is enrolled in MCPS. So if a kid is enrolled in private and a parent wants to enroll them in MC, the family has to pay. Which then begs the question, why would you pay for private if you also have to pay for MC?

Most privates in the DC area, including the surrounding counties in MD and VA offer Adv. Studies, AP, or IB classes. There's no need to go to the local community college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS will pay MC tuition if a kid is enrolled in MCPS. So if a kid is enrolled in private and a parent wants to enroll them in MC, the family has to pay. Which then begs the question, why would you pay for private if you also have to pay for MC?

Most privates in the DC area, including the surrounding counties in MD and VA offer Adv. Studies, AP, or IB classes. There's no need to go to the local community college.

The point of dual enrollment is so that the student has less credits to take during their 4 years in college. Its 50/50 if colleges accept AP scores, but they will transfer your 3-12 credits from a CC because those courses transfer better.

With dual enrollment, students can take a lighter workload their freshman and sophmore years or pick up another major/minor.

[Anonymous]

It’s frowned upon at my child’s school and tbh I think a large part of that is classism.

[Anonymous]

DE is very uncommon (I’d venture to say unheard of) in DC area private schools.

[Anonymous]

Our kid took 3 English classes during HS from NoVa Community College while attending a DC catholic school. These were not "dual enrollment" in the typical sense where they replace the equivalent HS class. They were just college level classes in addition to all HS classes.

Kid dsed those 9 English credits to skip two freshman English classes that would have been required at his university and graduated in 3.5 years from a top 20 school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our kid took 3 English classes during HS from NoVa Community College while attending a DC catholic school. These were not "dual enrollment" in the typical sense where they replace the equivalent HS class. They were just college level classes in addition to all HS classes.

Kid dsed those 9 English credits to skip two freshman English classes that would have been required at his university and graduated in 3.5 years from a top 20 school.

I don’t know of any top 20 school that accepts community college credit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hello,

New private school family to a HS kiddo. Dual enrollment is strongly encouraged by in our county and is incentivized for both public and private school families through free tuition opportunities. How many students at your school utilize dual enrollment and what year do they start?

We were thinking of enrolling DS the summer of freshman year into an English 101 class. Very strong writer. I figured some of the essay themes might overlap with his curriculum.

Kiddo?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our kid took 3 English classes during HS from NoVa Community College while attending a DC catholic school. These were not "dual enrollment" in the typical sense where they replace the equivalent HS class. They were just college level classes in addition to all HS classes.

Kid dsed those 9 English credits to skip two freshman English classes that would have been required at his university and graduated in 3.5 years from a top 20 school.

I don’t know of any top 20 school that accepts community college credit.

Cornell did.

[Anonymous]

Does DE help with college admissions vs AP-level classes?