Dual Enrollment

[Anonymous]

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

No not at all.

[Anonymous]

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

No. And in fact some colleges prefer to see APs because they are sometimes considered more rigorous, with a set curriculum and required exam. DE classes can vary greatly in content, rigor, and assessment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:None of the top 3 schools do this.

I say that goes even broader - I doubt any of these schools do this
STA
NCS
Sidwell
GDS
Potomac
Maret
Holton

[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.

I think you are wrong on this.... I'd bet they all accept community courses in the same way they do AP.

There is variation on whether it counts towards your total requirements (i.e. might allow you to graduate early) and whether it just counts to let you fulfill a requirement and just opens up your choices earlier. At my school, having english and history community college (via a travel abroad HS program) meant I didn't have to take the 1 required english and 1 required history course at the school. But I still had to take english/history to fulfill the requirement - I just got to choose what course I wanted to take (instead of the specific "freshman english/history" course everyone else had to take)

[Anonymous]

OP - if your child is at a top DMV private - they likely don't have time to take these classes - they should be taking the most rigorous courses they can succeed in at the HS.

I also doubt any local DMV would allow you to take the same DE course to replace the one offered at the high school. And I doubt they would allow your child to leave during school hours to take a community college course.

[Anonymous]

My private high school did not take dual enrollment credit. However, the cc credits earned during high school transferred much more easily to the college that my child attends.

For UMich, the cc counts for class registration priority, which is important for these crowded public schools. Other public school may have similar systems of favoring cc credits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This has been asked at every college tour we've done. Nearly every school will accept APs, but few will give credit for DE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None of the top 3 schools do this.

I say that goes even broader - I doubt any of these schools do this
STA
NCS
Sidwell
GDS
Potomac
Maret
Holton

I would start with none do, and let people provide examples of any that do. Probably none.

[Anonymous]

DE is very specifically a public school thing.

[Anonymous]

In Baltimore also not a thing with the private schools, which offer plenty of their own, more rigorous classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I think you are wrong on this.... I'd bet they all accept community courses in the same way they do AP.

There is variation on whether it counts towards your total requirements (i.e. might allow you to graduate early) and whether it just counts to let you fulfill a requirement and just opens up your choices earlier. At my school, having english and history community college (via a travel abroad HS program) meant I didn't have to take the 1 required english and 1 required history course at the school. But I still had to take english/history to fulfill the requirement - I just got to choose what course I wanted to take (instead of the specific "freshman english/history" course everyone else had to take)

I’ve got 2 kids in college. One is at top 20 other is at top SLAC. Neither accept cc credit. They barely accept credit from other universities. For both, you have to submit syllabus and get department head approval ahead of time. They didn’t even get full AP credit for everything they took. The one at top 20 didn’t even count any of the AP for credit. The one at SLAC capped the credit to only 4 courses and had to be a 5 on AP for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

That poster is uninformed. Yes, plenty of colleges accept limited CC credit, including top 20 schools.

[Anonymous]

OP here- we really would only consider English 101 and maybe an elective course like psych or history. From my research they are easily transferable to schools with partner agreements. In Maryland that's Towson, UMD and a few others like Salisbury etc. From experience, I'm familiar with the transfer process and it's not as daunting as a PP mentioned. It's very easy to make a case for the very basic general ed requirements which don't vary much. Might be a different case for ivy's and other private institutions, but my understanding is that they generally transfer well to nug research universities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here- we really would only consider English 101 and maybe an elective course like psych or history. From my research they are easily transferable to schools with partner agreements. In Maryland that's Towson, UMD and a few others like Salisbury etc. From experience, I'm familiar with the transfer process and it's not as daunting as a PP mentioned. It's very easy to make a case for the very basic general ed requirements which don't vary much. Might be a different case for ivy's and other private institutions, but my understanding is that they generally transfer well to nug research universities.

Why did you bother asking?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here- we really would only consider English 101 and maybe an elective course like psych or history. From my research they are easily transferable to schools with partner agreements. In Maryland that's Towson, UMD and a few others like Salisbury etc. From experience, I'm familiar with the transfer process and it's not as daunting as a PP mentioned. It's very easy to make a case for the very basic general ed requirements which don't vary much. Might be a different case for ivy's and other private institutions, but my understanding is that they generally transfer well to nug research universities.

Doesn’t sound like you really mean DE, which is dual enrollment for both HS and college credit, not just CC classes taken on your own time to store up some early transferrable college credit. If you just want to have your kid take a few classes at Nova or MC to transfer to their future college, that has nothing to do with your HS. If you want to actually get HS credit at the same time or replace HS classes (or its sometimes used for classes above the level a HS offers in its own), that’s DE and isn’t something the private schools in this area typically do.