Can you recieve full credit for your high school class when you dual enroll and complete a college course?

Question

Can you recieve full credit for your high school class when you dual enroll and complete a college course?

Answer 1

If your high school class was an AP (advanced placement) deal, then yeah you can.  Usually though AP deals only give you 1 or 2 credits, very rarely do you get 3 (in other words a full compliment).  Also high school courses are next to worthless in college; calc in high school these days, is equivalent to Algebra 100 in college.  That is how bad it has deteriorated, so, don't hold your breath.  A high school class, is usually numbered from the 90's and below, a particularly easy high school class is numbered somehwere in the teens, and they count as "remedial" if you take them in the college itself, a prerequisite for real college courses, but they do not count as credit.  If remedial courses don't count as credit, odds are neither do HS.  HS. like remedial, only count as "prerequisites," nothing more.  You will get credit for your college course, and "prerequisite completed" recognition for your HS courses but do not expect more than that.

good luck.

Answer 2

You need to check with your advisor.  If you are taking remedial courses at university, then probably not.  If you are taking credit college courses at or above the AP level offered by your school then probably yes, UNLESS the hs discourages this.  My kid was in Honors English in eleventh grade last year.  Her teacher had it in for her, and she was carrying an F, so I made her drop it and take the regular english course (in which she had an A for the rest of that semester, (as well as the next semester) but got a D for the first semester English course because that *&! teacher insisted on averaging the grades.  In the spring, I had her take Freshman English at the local university in addition to the 11th grade regular english course.  Freshman English is the course usually taken by seniors in this hs as a dual credit course.  MAN was the honors english teacher p*ssed when she found out!  She refused to let her have hs credit for the dual credit course.  

Answer 3

The most knowledgeable source would be your guidance counselor.  It may depend upon the school you attend and your college of choice.

Our local community college allows that, but you have to be enrolled in honors classes and have no grade below a "B".  Your second option is to phone the college itself.