Can you decline dual enrollment credit?

SammoJ
Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:31:03 +0000

Thanks everyone. @Richinpitt, yes, my question is the opposite of the one usually asked, which is why it throws people.

I know AP credit doesn’t require placing out of college courses, nor are AP courses truly equivalent to college courses in many cases. (S19 got a 5 on Calc AB and is taking Calc 1 now at college - he already says the Calc 1 has more depth than Calc AB). I have the same concern about DE courses.

@ucbalumnus, thanks for bringing up the variety of physics courses. We got more info, and there are two physics sequences at the local college, one that is non-calc based and one that is calc based. Since engineering programs require calc based and S21 doesn’t care if he is awarded any credit for the DE, taking the lower level sequence should serve the purpose of providing an elementary background in physics.

@mikemac, I know he will need to need to send transcript, and I was equally concerned about Physics 1 being the first DE class. However, his current Calc AB/AP Chem teacher is also a chem professor at the local university and she knows him well from prior math competition work. She is the one who suggested the DE option, knows the professor who teaches it, and believes that he will be able to handle it easily, in part because his peers in the class just won’t be solid STEM students. (Right there is the reason this class is really not up to engineering student standards.)

And all, no S21 isn’t counting on Duke or Georgia Tech, although Clemson should be a slam dunk (just went through this process w S19 who was accepted into Clemson Honors - S21 has even better scores and stats.) But S21 wears his Duke tee shirt almost every day and hopes…