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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS is dually enrolled at a 4 year college. He isn't worried abt credits although many public universities will accept them. It will show he can do work at the college level and he can wrap up undergrad and grad degree in 4 years. [/quote]

[b]In the DC area, Fairfax County offers dual enrollment to George Mason (but you still have to pay $400+/credit), PG offers dual enrollment at College Park w/o tuition. But the others only offer programs though community colleges/UDC. I wonder if there would be more interest in these programs from college prep caliber students if they allowed coursework at 4 yr colleges.  It would seem to make more sense than the typical AP load to me.[/quote][/b]

All I can add to the conversation is that our private didn't offer some AP courses and DC wanted further prep for the SAT II subject matter tests.  So she applied to GMU and NOVA as 'nondegree high school student" and signed up - after passing math tests (easy) - college chemistry and an advance math course to be taken during the summer.  NOVA was much less expensive than GMU but the professor was horrible.  Note to self:  Always read RateMyProfessor.com.  If a professor has a horrendous profile there's usually a reason.  But DC took both courses, got As and her high school added them to her transcript which boosted her high school GPA above the max.  The fact that she reached out and did this summer before senior year must have held some sway in the college applications came because she got in to all her early actions schools including UVA.  As for did it help on the SAT Chem test?  Hard to tell.  The field is so vast that even a college chem class doesn't cover everything that's on that that test.  She got to about 730, but at least she can point to the college chem class and say "see, I did it, including labs, at the college level and got an A".[/quote]

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