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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in CA now and my son has taken 12 dual enrollment classes and 5 AP classes. There has not been one community college class that is anywhere remotely close to the rigor of a well taught AP course or even an honors class at his upper middle class, competitive high school with the exception of a dual enrollment math class and chemistry class.

I think all colleges realize the rigor is not the same. However, public 4 year colleges love dual enrollment because kids can graduate faster and/or not have to take as many lower division units and/ir not as many units per quarter/semester. My son took 12-13 units every quarter instead of 15 freshman year at his UC.[/quote]

My experience was opposite. The rigor of AP classes is overblown in my opinion. Between AP Calculus BC and community college Calculus I and II, the latter one covered more material, but the exam was easier, both require about one hour of studying per day.

AP Physics C has the same textbook as first semester of CC calculus physics 1, but is doing about two thirds of the material. Same story for AP Physics C Electromagnetism.

The instructions are far better at community college, with at least Master or PhD degrees from UC Berkeley or other comparable universities.[/quote]

depends on the High school. many publics and all three top privates have masters and PhD teaching the AP classes. [/quote]

Who are you kidding here?

There are very few high school teachers with PhD degrees, including top privates. At our decent local high school there’s none in the science department, same at the best catholic private in the area. The dirty secret of privates is that they don’t pay their teachers well so they don’t attract the best and brightest.

At the community college [b]all[/b] science instructors have PhDs. Master is the minimum degree requirement.
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This. [/quote]

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