@emptynesteryet Actually if I recall, there was one honors precalc class at my high school, but it was during the same time as orchestra and AP Lit (both of which I really wanted to take since they related to what I wanted my majors to be at the time; downside of a small school is that there’s only 1 or occasionally 2 periods of each class so there were many, many conflicts, as you could imagine, which were often resolved by taking some courses at the other local high school.) The only HPC class I could get into at the other school was offered as DE. It sucks to think that if that one math course was put at a different time or if I hadn’t been so invested in English or orchestra it wouldn’t have had this awful effect later on.
Like I said, nobody, not even my counselor or math teacher told me it had this kind of effect and even assured me that “only the credit transfers, not the grade, as long as you pass” multiple times when I asked. I think they MEANT the credit transferred to most public colleges and that it didn’t factor into THAT colleges GPA. I really really wish there was some sort of pamphlet or warning I could have read back then before making this decision, because I absolutely would not have done it 