Perceived Rigor of Duel Enrollment vs. AP Classes

[ucbalumnus]

@JBraun

For example, the University of Georgia specifically asks how many AP or IB courses a student has taken in high school and recalculates the high school GPA accordingly (with increased weighting only for AP or IB courses). Dual enrollment weighting is removed when calculating UGA GPA.

Interesting… in contrast, California public universities recalculate giving honors +1 points for transferable (to the universities) college courses taken while in high school, along with AP courses and selected high school honors courses.

@JAF09

In his book “Who Get In And Why,” author Jeffrey Selingo says that colleges generally give more weight to APs than DE classes for the reason that many have said here, that the rigor of a DE course can vary a lot but AP does not.

The rigor of AP courses can vary also… that is often revealed by AP scores across high schools. For example, if High School X has A students in AP calculus AB mostly getting 1-2 scores on the AP test, while High School Y has A students in AP calculus AB mostly getting 4-5 scores on the AP test, that suggests that High School Y teaches AP calculus AB to a higher standard.