Question about Guaranteed Admissions for Dual Enrollement High School Students

Laclos
Thu, 09 May 2013 22:52:03 +0000

My daughter is currently a sophomore taking mostly 11th grade class work. While planning her high school 4 year schedule, we knew she was going to run out of high school course work and need to start taking community college classes before graduating. She will be taking 1 dual enrollment English course next year and 2 AP classes. Senior year, she only has a single required class left but intends to take more AP and dual enrollment classes to fill her schedule.

I started looking into the VCCS articulation agreement and compared that to the courses she was planning to take in high school along with all the time she has open in her senior year and next summer and it seems completely feasible that she could complete the requirements for her AA and also the WM requirements for guaranteed acceptance by the time she graduates. I’ve been looking at this from the point of view of her going to WM, although we live in Charlottesville, because I think WM would be a better fit for her than UVA.

If she were to get the AA before or at the same time as high school graduation, would her application be handled differently than other students who do the GAA after graduation? I know that she’d still start as a junior, but I also know she’d get the same access to FA and housing as Freshmen, which leads me to think that there are differences in how Dual Enrollment AA transfers are treated. I just want to make sure that if she went this route, she wouldn’t be losing out on anything.

Another question I have is in regard to transfering her course work. I noticed that PVCC requires only a 3 on most AP tests to count towards credit on the basic classes, while WM seems to require a 4. If my daughter got her AA with some AP classes that were accepted at PVCC, would that break the articulation agreement for guaranteed admission, or just mean that she’d need to re-take those classes?

And I’ll ask this even though I suspect the answer is no, but if she were to submit a letter of intent in her senior year, could she also apply ED as an incoming Freshman for the following year. I ask because while I like the AA for keeping the door open, I think that it would be great for her to have the experience of the full four years if she can get accepted. I’m not entirely sure how important that is to her at this point.

We’re also keeping the option on the table for her to finish high school and THEN have her complete the AA, but in that case, everything makes perfect sense to me, so I’m not asking about that route. There are many options to consider.

Thanks for any information