Dual enrollment courses...UPDATE #25

[golfgal]

My son took dual credit English at his high school during the day back in 2005/2006. The college professors came to the school and taught the class. With the opening of our second high school, the dual credit courses were moved to the Administation building and were held at night. It's a good way to earn college credit through our local community colleges. We have two local community colleges that offer the dual credit, one of them comes to our school district and you have to pay for the class but the other college offers it for free if you go to them.

Our school district currently doesn't promote the dual credit because they want the kids taking the AP courses instead. It's all about money. Personally speaking from experience, the dual credit is the way to go.

Your mom was probably thinking of the AP courses.

That is too bad.

The dual classes in our state are held at the 4 year colleges/universities.

 

[Buckalew11]

My dd is a HS sophomore and is homeschooled. She'll do dual enrollment next year at our local community college it and those will transfer to the college that she is most interested in at this point in time. We asked when we toured. They told us that her doing dual credit was far better to the college than an AP class. She'll go to the CC to do the classes.

My nephew is graduating this spring from HS and he has done some AP classes and dual enrollment classes. The dual enrollment is at his high school. However, he is going to Furman for college next Fall and they do not give credit their for the dual enrollment. he knew it was iffy and was OK with it though.

OP, I hope you find out. I'm shocked that your CC doesn't know what dual enrollment is.

 

[Maridw]

My daughter was duel enrolled in classes at high school and she never went to a class at the college. When she graduated and went to college, she had 12 units already for college.

At our local high schools you don't necessarily take classes at the college, they can be done at the high schools.

 

[luvsJack]

We have many dual enrolled students and its done both ways. Some are taking classes at our campus and some at their high school (with one of our instructors).

I have two nieces that graduated in the 90's and both of them took college credit classes. They were in AP classes throughout hs and their senior year were able to take what was equal to Eng. Comp I and a foreign language class for college credit. I think they still had to take some kind of test (not CLEP, I think they took the final) with the college.

For ds, he couldn't take the classes (weren't offered) but he could just take the final when he enrolled in college and just skipped the class.

Now we don't allow them to take the final but we do have dual enrollment.

So, the college you are calling has probably changed their policies over the years and whomever you are talking to hasn't worked there long enough to know what you are talking about it. You may need to ask for a counselor or Admissions Director or something like that to get someone who may know exactly how to find what you are looking for. (I would start with the counselor, they are the most likely to have been asked the question before)

 

[Dr.Girlfriend]

Update if you're interested.

My Mom kept insisting that she signed me up for "many dual enrollment courses that I FORCED you to take". Um, okay. Love the FORCED part of it. The only out of the ordinary courses that I remember taking were PE summer classes, an art class and driver's ed. Nothing else.

I contacted my old high school and they did not have a copy of my transcripts. However, I did remember that I had a copy at home in my files and I spoke to them today and went over all of the codes. None of them are AP or dual enrollment courses.

Just to make sure this was indeed correct, I contacted the local community college near my old high school to see if I had an college credits in their system. My information couldn't be found by name, SSN or old high school ID.

I contacted the college that I am currently going to and they also looked at my transcripts in the system and are saying that nothing on them are credits towards college courses.

Told my Mom and she seems to think everyone else is wrong. First she said that maybe the credits were so old, they expired (that doesn't happen as far as I can tell). Then she said that she used to work for the school board and was part of the dual enrollment team; she claims that she signed me up for a bunch of stuff. I told her that apparently all she did was sign me up for a bunch of unnecessary summer school classes (which appears to be true; I had 5 extra credits on my high school transcripts which were all elective/PE related).

She's annoyed with me now. She's telling me she doesn't know how I'll be able to handle college classes on top of being married and having two kids. I did just fine with some before my son was born, and now I'm going back (albeit mainly online courses to start).

Oh well. I appreciate everyone's input. I'll just work a little harder to prove her wrong on the "not being able to handle it" part.