MCPS - Dual Enrollment (Early Graduation)

[Anonymous]

This is NOT how dual enrollment works: Your child does NOT graduate high school in 11th grade. Your child takes courses at Montgomery College that simultaneously satisfy the high school and college requirements.

When your child apples to colleges, they apply as FRESHMEN as long as they apply before graduating high school/getting their AA. After being accepted by the college, the student will graduate high school and also graduate with an AA from MC. The college then has to transfer the credits from the AA and apply them towards graduation. How many credits are accepted is determined by the college or university.

If, for any reason, your child graduates high school early and applies to colleges after that, you run the risk of the college considering the child a TRANSFER student. For the University of Maryland, this means a significantly reduced acceptance rate into competitive programs, since the university recently cut the number of transfer students accepted into these programs by 90%.