<p>Let’s say you (a high school student) and your parents both want something to be done to your schedule. You want to do dual enrollment and drop a couple of classes (including taking out 2 APs from a schedule with 4 APs) in your normal high school schedule to fit in 2 college courses during the rest of the day. Dual enrollment is open to high school juniors and seniors with good grades. You have a 3.96 UW GPA and have always taken the most rigorous classes available to you at your high school. Your guidance counselor has to sign a form allowing you to do dual enrollment, but she doesn’t because she thinks your schedule is challenging enough as it is. You reeeally want to do dual enrollment, so you can get a feel for real college courses and a taste of college life, and because you have good-enough grades to go ahead and do it. But your guidance counselor still thinks you should take 4 AP courses instead of taking 2 AP courses and 2 college courses. But you just want a little more variety in your classes instead of monotonous long days of high school filled with the same classes. </p>
<p>If your parents talked to your guidance counselor in support of you doing this, is the guidance counselor supposed to listen to your parents and let you do dual enrollment? Or can she ignore you & your parents and just not sign the form allowing you to do it?</p>
<p>Haha, yeah I know that. At my school before doing dual enrollment, you have to have a conference with the guidance counselor and your parents to discuss it.</p>
<p>Some schools prefer that students take courses at the high school as long as they are offered there. Off-site courses are sometimes for students who can’t find a comparable class at the high school. In a case where a student wants to take a college course rather than an AP, the high school may prefer to keep the student in the AP class.</p>
<p>Making your parents talk to the counselor is definitely helpful; for me, my counselor listens to my parents and not me. </p>
<p>Another thing, you said that the college courses you want to take arent offered at your high school. Well thats even better, you have a legitimate reason to take those classes, your counselor would be screwed in the head if she said no even after talking to your parents.</p>
<p>They don’t absolutely have to listen to your parents, but having your parents talk with them in a convincing manner would help.</p>
<p>Are you a junior or a senior? If you’re a junior, it may be worth sticking with the 4 APs and showing what you can handle so you can do this next year when you have even fewer AP courses left to take. Your argument is certainly valid, and I think either option makes sense, but it’s worth considering.</p>