Dual Enrollment

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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.

If using CC credit is a problem, just do DE with a local university then (or find a university that does DE that your kid's expected schools might take). For example FCPS has an agreement with George Mason for DE classes, but families can take the initiative to do DE themselves with GMU as well. It's in the back of my mind because our school's math only goes through AP Calculus AB and DC is on track to be done with that by junior year of HS.

[Anonymous]

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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)

Harvard, Yale and Princeton websites all say they don't accept DE. Harvard and Yale don't accept AP.

I got bored of checking after that.

[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.

What are you paying the private school for?

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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)

Harvard, Yale and Princeton websites all say they don't accept DE. Harvard and Yale don't accept AP.

I got bored of checking after that.

DE is college classes taken in place of HS classes. That is not the same thing as straight [community] college credits obtained completely outside of your HS curriculum. Some schools accept college transfer credits easily, some only allow them to be used to skip otherwise required courses if the community college course is deemed equivalent. Some allow both credit and skipping but depending on the specifics of the major and the course.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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)

Harvard, Yale and Princeton websites all say they don't accept DE. Harvard and Yale don't accept AP.

I got bored of checking after that.

DE is college classes taken in place of HS classes. That is not the same thing as straight [community] college credits obtained completely outside of your HS curriculum. Some schools accept college transfer credits easily, some only allow them to be used to skip otherwise required courses if the community college course is deemed equivalent. Some allow both credit and skipping but depending on the specifics of the major and the course.

I don't think there is a hard and fast rule on what DE means. Locally it's defined as any college class taken while the student is enrolled in high school. It's not a replacement, it's an addition.

DE high schools operate differently. The one near us operates as an IB program.

[Anonymous]

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

This. When we asked our private school said something about how they wouldn’t want our students to be in a community college classroom environment.

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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)

Harvard, Yale and Princeton websites all say they don't accept DE. Harvard and Yale don't accept AP.

I got bored of checking after that.

DE is college classes taken in place of HS classes. That is not the same thing as straight [community] college credits obtained completely outside of your HS curriculum. Some schools accept college transfer credits easily, some only allow them to be used to skip otherwise required courses if the community college course is deemed equivalent. Some allow both credit and skipping but depending on the specifics of the major and the course.

I don't think there is a hard and fast rule on what DE means. Locally it's defined as any college class taken while the student is enrolled in high school. It's not a replacement, it's an addition.

DE high schools operate differently. The one near us operates as an IB program.

Defined by whom?

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

Why would the the elites frown on this? Why is it objectionable for a high school student to take college courses?

[Anonymous]

If your kid is up for it fine but my teens need the summer for a break to decompress…work, have fun
Students who are motivated on their own fine but don’t push them.. while they earn college credit thr class over the summer is compressed and more rigorous than a semester and yes they will get college credit but it won’t count toward HS goa etc

[Anonymous]

A community college English 101 class will be far easier than 9th grade private school English. If you need a harder English class, you need a new private school.

[Anonymous]

Bumping this topic because a few parents at SSFS are floating this idea. I don't like the idea. Thoughts?

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Anonymous wrote:Bumping this topic because a few parents at SSFS are floating this idea. I don't like the idea. Thoughts?

Floating what idea? Taking DE classes? If SSFS and scheduling allow, then sure, if you want to, then do; if you don’t want to, don’t. Does SSFS offer APs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bumping this topic because a few parents at SSFS are floating this idea. I don't like the idea. Thoughts?

Just scroll through what's already been posted for thoughts. No privates in the area do this probably for good reason.

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Anonymous wrote:Bumping this topic because a few parents at SSFS are floating this idea. I don't like the idea. Thoughts?

Floating what idea? Taking DE classes? If SSFS and scheduling allow, then sure, if you want to, then do; if you don’t want to, don’t. Does SSFS offer APs?

Parent of recent SSFS graduate here. Yes, SSFS has some excellent AP classes. I don't like the idea of dual enrollment either.

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Anonymous wrote:Bumping this topic because a few parents at SSFS are floating this idea. I don't like the idea. Thoughts?

Floating what idea? Taking DE classes? If SSFS and scheduling allow, then sure, if you want to, then do; if you don’t want to, don’t. Does SSFS offer APs?

Parent of recent SSFS graduate here. Yes, SSFS has some excellent AP classes. I don't like the idea of dual enrollment either.

I don’t see the problem with a school offering DE. If you don’t like the option don’t do it. But, it’s available for kids who want to do it. Live and let live.