Need help with dual enrollment question

collegenut
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:08:03 +0000

I have a question about how colleges handle GPAs from dual enrollment. Hopefully some of the CC experts can help!

I think that most colleges take your high school transcript and recompute your high school gpa, based on their criteria, particularly when it comes to computing a weighted gpa. When the colleges recompute the high school gpa, will they weight a DE class? I know that most colleges will weight an AP class, an Honors class, and an IB class. Some will weight a gifted class, if you can get them to understand what it is. As we all know, if you are a straight A student, the more weighted classes you have the higher your GPA will be. So, are the colleges going to include the DE class in their recomputation of a high school gpa and if so, will they weight it? Or does it just show up as college credit and it is excluded from the high school gpa recomputation? If they exclude it, maybe a student is better off taking the gifted class and lobbying for them to weight it as they would an AP or honors class. If they include it in the gpa and weight it, then wouldn’t it be better to take the dual enrollment class?

The class in question is 11th grade trig. The school does not offer AP in this subject only AP Calc in 12th gr. I just don’t know which is better to take: gifted trig or dual enrollment from a local community college. (they are using the same textbook but different teachers) thanks for any input!!

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