Dual Course taught at High School

FlaParent
Tue, 02 Jul 2019 17:18:04 +0000

Not all Dual Enrollment courses are equal and you must carefully select them based on individual circumstances. I can speak from experience in Florida but the idea is the same. With that said, I’d be very careful about Dual Enrollment courses at Community College as I have been told that college admissions are not impressed by these credits.

Let us take English as an example. At my D20 school, you can take AP English or Dual Enrollment English. For Dual Enrollment, you can select either a Community College or the University of Florida. Most would say that the rankings of the courses would have the Community College last and some might even have AP English above English at the University of Florida.

MY D20 took the UF course and learned what a college course would be like. There were 500 students in the class with the vast majority actual college students and not dual enrollment students. The experience for her was invaluable and will undoubtedly ease her fears about college will be like.

She is a great student but is not aiming for Top 20 schools. If she was I think that I would have still had her take the UF course but others might say that AP’s are the safer route. She is likely going to UF so these credits will make life a lot easier for her college career.