<p>Background info:
I’m considering dropping AP English and taking DE I contacted my college to see if the credit would transfer and got the following response:</p>
<p>I’ll try to answer your question as briefly as I can, though courses across the country that have the designation “dual enrollment” are difficult to assess from a distance–the term is not used in anything like a consistent manner from state to state. But assuming that Arizona’s idea of “dual enrollment” is
something like , the answer is, yes, you will need to take diagnostic exams here in order to get credit for this class. You will also
need to bring along a relatively detailed course description and (if
at all possible) syllabus, so that I can see what, exactly, the course
covered and required you to do. Then those of us who read the freshman
diagnostic exams would also need to see evidence that you had learned what
you needed to know for the curriculum in order to substitute that course
for one of ours. We aren’t trying to be difficult in doing all of this, but
we take the writing requirement very seriously here, and want to make sure
that all of our students learn what we feel they should know about writing.</p>
<p>The Rhetoric diagnostic exams consist of, first, a sentence exam, in which
you read and analyze sentences and correct any significant grammatical
errors that you see; and second, an essay of about 500 words that you write
on site here. Both exams are graded and judged by Rhetoric professors, and
then we consult to see what level of the course would be best for you.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Now, the question: Would it be ok to take the class in place of AP English to lighten up my load a little and give me more time to focus on math? Does it sound like it will transfer to this school?? I’d like to be blunt like with these questions when contacting the school but I can’t.</p>
<p>My Sr year classes are:</p>
<p>Marching Band
Band
AP English
AP Gov/Econ
AP Spanish 5
DE Human A&P
Alg 2</p>
<p>They are either not familiar with your HS and they are wanting to evaluate what your DE1 is…get your guidance counselor or teacher to help you provide the course requirements/curriculum to your college such that they can tell you how they have treated this in the past. They are telling you what you can do on arrival at college to determine how they will assess your knowledge. The policy regarding APs for your college should be online…as far as score=credit.</p>
<p>Re your question about dropping AP English and going to DE: I think “it depends” on how important to you it is to get credit for the high school class. If it is more important to you to lighten up your load right now, then make the change. Having credit for your English class in college - or placing out of it - is entirely optional, of course.</p>
<p>I’m probably missing something, but when you say “my college”, are you already in to a specific college? It looks like you are a rising Senior.</p>
<p>The letter means it depends on the quality of the course, its coverage and how well you did in it. I usually recommend to students wanting to receive credit for courses they took while in high school that they take AP classes, not community college classes. The reason is, as the letter suggests, the cc classes vary enormously in their coverage (hence the request for the detailed syllabus) and their requirements (hence the diagnostic exams). AP courses, by contrast, have well known curricula and nation-wide, standardized tests.
One possibility would be to take the cc class AND the AP exam, provided that the CC class covered the same thing as the AP course. For example, my S took introductory Biology in college owing to scheduling conflicts with some of his high school classes, and took the AP exam. It turned out that the textbook used in his bio class was the same as the one used in the AP-Bio class; he did well on the AP exam, so he will receive credit for it.</p>
<p>Many colleges do not accept all the hours one earns at community college, just as they need to evaluate any courses you take dual credit. This is a fairly new program in many parts of the US, and the colleges are learning to assess them, whereas AP has been long established, everyone takes the same test, so they know what you got out of the class. D decided, with help from counselor, not to take and dual credit classes, since she did not want to go to school in-state. Our state unis accept these hours. Not necessarily so for out of state schools. That varied. She got her hours through AP instead. After comparing notes with the dual credit kids, she found that many times, the workload in the AP class was heavier than in the dial credit. And our district does not give bonus GPA points for dual credit. Taking them hurt your class rank, since they ranked as regular (not honors) classes did.</p>
on how important to you it is to get credit for the high school class. If it is more important to you to lighten up your load right now, then make the change. Having credit for your English class in college - or placing out of it - is entirely optional, of course.</p>