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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid was offered and we turned it down. 
 There are pros and cons about dual enrollment.  The pros are it offers more subjects than HS.  The cons are that although you can earn an Associates' degree, it's a dead end.  It's difficult to transfer in an Associates' Degree for college credit.  Most Montgomery College credits don't transfer - even to UofMd.  AP's will transfer to just about any school in the country and are a "known factor" in terms of college applications.   Plus there's a social factor that your kid will miss the "high school experience".[/quote]
This is just flat out incorrect. The associates degree from MC directly transfers to all university system of Maryland schools. The courses are aligned and you can verify by looking at the course transfer website in each. How else do you suppose they run the guaranteed transfer program? The community colleges run as a supplement to the other schools for core courses and general Ed. You can see in the UMD transfer stats where kids transfer in from and when. It’s around 1000 per class from CC, if I remember correctly.

Also my DC did early college and had no issues with credits transferring to Pitt when they enrolled there. Only one that didn’t transfer was the writing one (annoyingly) because Pitt has that bundled with their required engineering seminar.[/quote]

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