I am currently a HS freshman. This semester, I have taken 2 DE courses this semester (English comp I and intro to psych) and plan to take three classes (eng comp II, macroeconomics, and business law) in the spring.
Will it be negative on college applications to have the DE courses?
I know that they’re good because they ARE college classes (and I have A’s in them) but they are community college classes.
Will they be looked on as “easy” or “slacking off” because they are a com college? I know that community colleges aren’t necessarily any less challenging but will other colleges consider them less challenging?
You are taking college classes as a high school freshman, making you four years advanced. Count yourself lucky; many districts only offer DE to high-performing juniors and seniors. Additionally, some of these DE classes have no AP counterparts (like Business Law) or AP counterparts almost never offered to freshmen (English Comp I/II, which AP English Language tries to emulate). I don’t think any admissions officers will question the rigor of your courses.
In fact, I would advise you not to take these courses lightly. In my experience, they are often far more unforgiving than AP classes; based on what I have seen from the ones I’ve taken through my CC, they typically have less assignments, shorter tests/quizzes, and little to no grade inflation, opportunities for remediation, or extra credit, meaning if you screw up once, it might already be too late to salvage your grade, and these courses factor into your college GPA.