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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

I don’t know of any top 20 school that accepts community college credit.  [/quote]

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)[/quote]

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.
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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.  [/quote]

I don't think there is a hard and fast rule on what DE means. [b]Locally it's defined as [/b]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. [/quote]
Defined by whom?[/quote]

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