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<p>Look up “transfer credit” on each school’s web site.</p>
<p>The public schools will have pre-arranged articulation agreements with same-state community colleges (and possibly other colleges), so that you know whether a given course counts for subject credit there. For example:
<a href=“http://saz-webdmz.eservices.virginia.edu/asequivs/”>http://saz-webdmz.eservices.virginia.edu/asequivs/</a> (University of Virginia)
<a href=“UM Transfer Credit Equivalencies”>http://www.ugadmiss.umich.edu/TCE/Public/CT_TCESearch.aspx</a> (University of Michigan)
<a href=“http://www.assist.org”>http://www.assist.org</a> (for California community colleges and state universities)</p>
<p>The private schools are often much less generous, particularly with dual enrollment courses taken on a high school campus, as opposed to in a regular college course.</p>
<p>The schools’ economic motivations are obvious – the public schools want their mostly-in-state students to graduate as quickly as possible, so that they use up less of the in-state tuition subsidy, while the private schools prefer to keep the students paying tuition for the full eight semesters.</p>
<p>As mentioned above, if you are considering skipping introductory courses at the college you eventually attend, try those courses’ old final exams to determine how well you know the material.</p>