Advice Needed re. Dual Enrollment Class-Some Schools Say No Credit if Counted Toward HS Degree
Driverof3
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Hi everyone,
I am looking for some advice for my D20. She attended public school for two years but left for this year (11th grade) and next year. This year she took 3 dual enrollment classes at a local university and the other classes were online. I'm not concerned about whether she gets credit for the DE classes this year because they were basically substitutes for high school classes. But next year she'd like to take the college general biology class that would be the equivalent of AP Bio so that when she gets to college she isn't starting completely at the beginning of the Bio sequence. I've noticed that a few of the schools she's considering say something to the effect of no credit will be given if the class was taken while in high school and counted towards a high school degree, or if high school credit was also given.
We're in Texas where homeschoolers are treated as a private school, so technically I can set her degree requirements as whatever I want, with just a few requirements. She will have satisfied the basic public high school requirements, will have 4 years of the 5 main core subjects, and the Bio would actually be her second science next year because she's also taking another, so there's no real "need" for the Bio to apply towards her degree. But I'd like to include the class on her high school transcript so colleges can see what she's taking when she applies, and obviously if she does well I'd want it in her GPA. She already took PreAP Bio in 9th grade at public school but her old school required both Bio and Chem before AP Bio so couldn't have taken AP Bio while still enrolled there.
Anyone else run into this issue about no credit for DE classes? Any suggestions? Oh and for a couple of reasons, we really strongly prefer taking Bio at the school live over taking AP Bio through an online provider so that's not really an option we want to consider for her senior year.
I have a feeling that I'll be coming to this forum quite a bit or maybe PMing some of who have successfully navigated college applications with homeschoolers, if that's ok. I have read your various postings about course descriptions and transcripts and have already gotten to work on some things because of you, so thank you so much for what I've already learned because you shared your experiences, and thanks for any advice you can offer about this situation.
9 replies I am looking for some advice for my D20. She attended public school for two years but left for this year (11th grade) and next year. This year she took 3 dual enrollment classes at a local university and the other classes were online. I'm not concerned about whether she gets credit for the DE classes this year because they were basically substitutes for high school classes. But next year she'd like to take the college general biology class that would be the equivalent of AP Bio so that when she gets to college she isn't starting completely at the beginning of the Bio sequence. I've noticed that a few of the schools she's considering say something to the effect of no credit will be given if the class was taken while in high school and counted towards a high school degree, or if high school credit was also given.
We're in Texas where homeschoolers are treated as a private school, so technically I can set her degree requirements as whatever I want, with just a few requirements. She will have satisfied the basic public high school requirements, will have 4 years of the 5 main core subjects, and the Bio would actually be her second science next year because she's also taking another, so there's no real "need" for the Bio to apply towards her degree. But I'd like to include the class on her high school transcript so colleges can see what she's taking when she applies, and obviously if she does well I'd want it in her GPA. She already took PreAP Bio in 9th grade at public school but her old school required both Bio and Chem before AP Bio so couldn't have taken AP Bio while still enrolled there.
Anyone else run into this issue about no credit for DE classes? Any suggestions? Oh and for a couple of reasons, we really strongly prefer taking Bio at the school live over taking AP Bio through an online provider so that's not really an option we want to consider for her senior year.
I have a feeling that I'll be coming to this forum quite a bit or maybe PMing some of who have successfully navigated college applications with homeschoolers, if that's ok. I have read your various postings about course descriptions and transcripts and have already gotten to work on some things because of you, so thank you so much for what I've already learned because you shared your experiences, and thanks for any advice you can offer about this situation.
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Replies to: Advice Needed re. Dual Enrollment Class-Some Schools Say No Credit if Counted Toward HS Degree
Like someone else noted, no matter what the policy is regarding acceptance of credit, *any* college class she takes becomes part of her official college transcripts for graduate schools — whether or not her undergrad accepted the classes for credit or not, she will always have to show her transcript of the college classes she took in high school.