<p>Hey guys, i stumbled upon an application form the other day for dual enrollment credit courses at a very prestigious college nearby. on the form, it’s stated that they want you to have exhausted all classes at your school in a particular subject before enrolling. generally speaking, at what times are these courses usually and how do they work in getting you college credit? also, how selective are these programs?</p>
<p>any other info would be helpful! thanks!</p>
<p>It depends on the college. Community colleges aren’t selective at all. As long as you are a C/B or better student, then you’re almost guaranteed dual enrollment. </p>
<p>However, I know that dual enrollment at Florida Tech, which is less than an hour away from me, is quite strict on the requirements for dual enrollment students. For example, you can only take a max of 4 classes and you have to be a junior or senior with a certain amount of credits.</p>
<p>nope its not community college, we’re talking rice here haha. ok yea ill look into their credit requirements</p>
<p>Florida Tech allows a maximum of 4 classes? I’m doing dual enrollment at a community college which doesn’t allow more than 2. Also, “not selective at all” is something of an understatement; the two classes I’m taking are quite a few units each (adding up to half the # of units a full-time college student there would have) and I had to present some pretty thorough documentation to convince the college that I was up to it.</p>
<p>^Oh, then maybe the community college by me is really easy to get into. :D</p>
<p>Tons of students (I’m in Brevard County) do dual enrollment and they can take as many credits as they want. It’s possible here to graduate with a high school diploma and an AA degree.</p>
<p>I might take 4 Florida Tech classes and 16 Brevard Community College classes so I can get my AA when I’m 17. And they are given the same weight as AP classes (5.0 for an A). It’s all free, so why not?</p>
<p>I’m going to do mine at Uconn, Trinity or Uhart. I don’t know about the policy. You have to talk to the deparment chair or the teacher about it sometimes.</p>
<p>^The chair might not be the best person to talk to, if you want credit for the class, not to audit it. They don’t really have that kind of “power”…</p>
<p>the community college I went to didn’t have any limits. you had to be over 16 and have parent and principals permission. after that it’s the same as any other student.
but my classes at PNC(campus of Purdue University), needed transcripts, test scores, permission and a maximum of 2 classes. (I talked them into more though)</p>
<p>I’m planning on enrolling in a local University. It doesn’t have any limits besides like…above 2.0 GPA and stuff. But my school made me finish its whole math curriculum before I could duel enroll. I took calc last year…and now I’m taking stats…even though I took stats at the university 2 years ago during the summer for college credit…now I’m in a useless class.</p>
<p>As a previous poster said, dual enrollment is college specific. Each college has their own rules and regulations. In our county, the student has to be a 9th grader and take the CPT. Age doesn’t matter and there’s no restrictions on the number of credit hours allowed. I know of one student, thirteen, who’s taking 18 credits and will be graduating next year.</p>
<p>where in brevard county???</p>
<p>I’m in Cocoa, but I go to Edgewood Jr./Sr. High School in Merritt Island.</p>
<p>I live in cocoa beach. I go to BCC in cocoa. lol</p>
<p>Only a few miles away from me haha. There aren’t many people here from Florida.</p>
<p>I’m a full-time dual enrolled student at a local university. The major requirement was a minimum of a 1100 on the SAT. There is no hour cap.</p>
<p>I know that Georgia Tech has an eight-hour cap, by comparison. Then again, most public schools in Atlanta are good enough such that dual enrollment is needed in only very special circumstances (and 8 hours is enough to satisfy).</p>
<p>I am doing concurrent at local state university. The college classes I am taking are much easier than most of the AP classes I have taken the last couple of years. I think all you have to do to get in here is be in the top 20% of your class or have an ACT of 26 or better or have a 3.5. I am glad I am doing it, it lets me see what college life is like now, get that first day of college butterflies out of the way. Plus there wasn’t much else I could take at my HS that would have held any challenge at all.</p>
<p>I wrote a really long post about my experiences with dual-enrollment, a couple months ago. I posted it below…</p>
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<p>And yes, I did just quote myself… lol.</p>
<p>^I agree with you. AP classes are lots of work and you hardly learn a thing (unless you have a good teacher). It all comes down to one test, so you could get an A in an AP class, do bad on the test, and get nothing out of it.</p>
<p>I think it’s good to do dual enrollment only if you really like the classes. Because you already have classes at school to worry about so just concentrate on those.</p>