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[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]

That’s very strange, basically you’re saying he only got 10 credits for all 12 courses taken, and generally that’s the math and chemistry class alone.

Every community college class is labeled in the catalogue if transferable to UC or CS. The 12 classes should have been equivalent to about 50-60 credits, almost one year worth of classes. Unless they were hobby classes like dance, sports etc, and it that case it’s not warranted to complain about their rigor.[/quote]

I have no idea what you are talking about with the 10 credits. He did get around 39-40 credits for the Dual Enrollment classes plus more credits for the AP classes. At his UC they do NOT accept Ap credit for General Elective classes but they do accept dual enrollment classes. A lot of his friends are taking classes this summer because they did not get into all their lower division classes that they needed that are really popular like the first semester of chemistry or biology the first or second quarter. So now they are behind. [/quote]

What are you complaining about regarding the dual enrollment credits? Your kid got about one year worth of credits![/quote]

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