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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not common at all in my experience. However, our high school offers many AP classes. Is the student doing this in addition to a regular course load?[/quote]
From my understanding it's part of their regular course load. I'd be curious if there are restrictions on course load/overload the way you might find at a 4 year college or university.

Another kid (senior) claims on their public LinkedIn resume to graduate with an Associate Degree in Computer Science from highschool, something that requires around 60 college credits (20 semester long courses), including a series of 5 or 6 CS courses. These would be lower division courses at a 4 year school, many if not all of which fall under Virginia's transfer program. Along with lots of AP/DE courses on English, History, etc.

How exactly does this work?[/quote]If they begin full time dual enrollment in 9th, they could hypothetically have up to 120 credits (15 per semester)[/quote]
Hypothetically here is the keyword?  15 per semester would be 5 courses, which is one more than a typical 4 double period block schedule would give. So that's "overload."

In addition, at least some DE/AP courses have prerequisites in our school district at least - for instance, Biology I and Chemistry I are prerequisites for any DE/AP course in biology/chemistry - these would take up a slot in 9th grade; then there is the sequential elective requirements in Virginia, and all AP courses in history except APUSH require a prerequisite history course that's not offered at the middle school level.  (I am assuming a student comes in fully accelerated into HS - has taken accelerated science, has taken an Earth Science credit in MS, and has completed math up to including Algebra II in middle school). And it's not even clear how a world language would fit in.

Looking at say [url=https://catalog.nvcc.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=11&poid=2541]NVCC's requirements (to pick an example of a Virginia CC)[/url] these are:
- CSC 221, CSC 222, CSC 223, CSC 205, and CSC 215 - those are 5 (if taught properly, time-consuming and tough) CS courses
- Precalc, Calculus I, II, III, Discrete Math - that's 5 math courses.
- plus 5 electives
- plus 2 English AP level courses.

(actually, it says CSC 205 OR 215 OR Calculus III - which doesn't seem right; but that may make it more doable.)

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