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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I very much doubt DE is being pushed at the wealthy UMC schools like Whitman and Churchill.
Highly selective colleges and universities tend to prefer AP credits to community college credits but MCPS will never tell you that [/quote]

People on this thread keep saying that, and I find it surprising. Being a former Ivy-league student myself ages ago, and having taken AP classes that counted for nothing (besides letting me skip a semester of Calculus) I would think that DE/community college classes would be considered at least as academically challenging as AP classes. I mean DE is almost always taught by actual professors with actual PhDs, not quite the story with AP.

So why the hate towards DE? And can someone (you maybe?) cite a reference for this disdain by elite schools? Seems bass ackwards.

I am truly curious - my assumption before this thread was that DE would trump AP any day![/quote]

You are correct. The people who think AP is better than real college credit are delusional and most of them clearly have not had a kid apply to college. [/quote]

Ha ha ha! This board is FULL of families whose kids have done tons of APs and who are in college or are applying to college.
We all know DE is a crock for the wealthy and ambitious, because the universities our kids are enrolled it, or applying to, look down on dual enrollment, for all the reasons stated ***repeatedly*** on this thread.
DE is a great choice for lower-income students, and that's it. As such, it has a place in high school education and it is valuable. I support it. OP's original point was in part that DE was sold to ALL students as a panacea, whereas the reality is definitely more nuanced accordingly to family income and academic goals, and that's why she called it a "scam". I agree with her that MCPS is trying to sell it as hard as possible, in part because MC's enrollment in falling. There is conflict of interest here. You can't entirely trust what MCPS is selling. But as long as you keep this in mind, it's all good, because DE does have a lot of advantages for some.

So please, don't pretend you understand the finer points and politics of this discussion.[/quote]

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