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[quitthedrama]

Or, depending upon the area you live in, look into dual enrollment and knock out your general ed while in high school. Don't be an OA like me and burn yourself out; but I didn't pay for my general AA degree; my county did. The GI Bill is paying for my BS and a year of my Master's---thankfully.

I wish our area did dual enrollment in a more sensible way. The only option is to take all of your classes at college, so you don't go to high school at all your senior year. I would love to see students be able to take an 8am class each day at the college and then take the rest of their classes at the high school so they can actually get a "dual enrollment" experience!

 

[youbetterwork]

I went to university right away, and I regret it a looot. Four years later I've now taken a year off before I finish my university studies.

 

[SL&AM]

I wish our area did dual enrollment in a more sensible way. The only option is to take all of your classes at college, so you don't go to high school at all your senior year. I would love to see students be able to take an 8am class each day at the college and then take the rest of their classes at the high school so they can actually get a "dual enrollment" experience!

Our school offered both, but the senior year was called Early Admissions. That is essentially what I did; dual enrollment Sophomore and Junior year, Early Admissions my senior year. By my senior year I was over high school and my husband; then boyfriend, had already left school for the Army---I had nothing keeping me there.

 

[12stepCheermom]

I wish our area did dual enrollment in a more sensible way. The only option is to take all of your classes at college, so you don't go to high school at all your senior year. I would love to see students be able to take an 8am class each day at the college and then take the rest of their classes at the high school so they can actually get a "dual enrollment" experience!

You can do both at my school. And the college courses are mostly online so the students can do them at home or in a lab here if they like...they don't....they all do them off campus but it's smarter than AP really.

You make a C in a NC Career and College Promise class you get automatic credit. In an AP class you have to pass the exam to get credit and then only get it depending on the university and what score they require to even grant it. The expansion of CCP classes in NC is the death knell for AP as far as I can see ahead. I predict that will become a reality for AP enrollment starting next year now that both classes have the same quality points for your GPA.

 

[quitthedrama]

You can do both at my school. And the college courses are mostly online so the students can do them at home or in a lab here if they like...they don't....they all do them off campus but it's smarter than AP really.

You make a C in a NC Career and College Promise class you get automatic credit. In an AP class you have to pass the exam to get credit and then only get it depending on the university and what score they require to even grant it. The expansion of CCP classes in NC is the death knell for AP as far as I can see ahead. I predict that will become a reality for AP enrollment starting next year now that both classes have the same quality points for your GPA.

AP classes were an absolute waste for my CP. She didn't pass a single test and she isn't a bad student. Her AP Bio and AP Chem teachers were both absent a significant amount of time. I would love an online course dual enrollment option for my youngest!

 

[oncecoolcoachnowmom]

I wish our area did dual enrollment in a more sensible way. The only option is to take all of your classes at college, so you don't go to high school at all your senior year. I would love to see students be able to take an 8am class each day at the college and then take the rest of their classes at the high school so they can actually get a "dual enrollment" experience!

That's weird.

Students where I work can take anywhere from one to all of their courses as dual enrollment, as long as they understand things like dual enrollment = the grade counts as both a HS and a university course.

Works well for kids who may be (example) SUPER ADVANCED in Science and able to handle CHEM 10001 at the University, but not-so-much in English & still needing to take regular English 12 at the HS.

Also works out well for kids who still really want to be involved in HS activities. Ex: If you were forced to be dual enrollment all day, you aren't able to participate in sports assemblies, etc.

 

[Sugarplum14]

My school allows you to take online classes, or face to face, but the face to face ones have to be after school gets out at 2:45 or during the same block as the one you are replacing. If you're taking online ones you still have to come to school and work in the classroom during the correct block. Example: Taking online English, you work on it while everyone else is in English.

 

[SL&AM]

I don't personally understand the push for AP classes. I was enrolled in 2 AP classes; World History's and an English class, and ended up transferring out of them at Christmas. I probably would have passed the tests, but during the one year class I had already finished them in college and therefore, would have been a wasted period of time.

My mom had a one-up friend, as I like to call her, and she was basically my old BFF's mom. She kept going on and on about all the college credit's her daughter was getting from AP classes (I think 12 by the end of HS)---which is nothing to sneeze at, but she put her nose up to Dual Enrollment & Early Admissions. My mom was like, "Well she's getting both degrees this year so..." I don't think they talked for a while after that.

I do think focusing on DA/EA has it's own cost though---I couldn't do school sports, I was very out of touch with the majority of my graduating class, and though I was old enough to be in college, I wasn't necessarily old enough to be friends with a lot of them either. No one was mean, but it was an awkward transition. But I didn't go into HS wanting those experiences---I barely even went to my Prom because I just didn't want to.

Sophomore & Junior year; I was at HS from 8:00 AM to 11:30 ish (I left at Lunch)
Senior year: I went to my HS for senior pictures, get my yearbook, and pick up prom tickets. Then I met with my class for graduation rehearsal and ceremony.

 

[Ashley]

I don't personally understand the push for AP classes. I was enrolled in 2 AP classes; World History's and an English class, and ended up transferring out of them at Christmas. I probably would have passed the tests, but during the one year class I had already finished them in college and therefore, would have been a wasted period of time.

My mom had a one-up friend, as I like to call her, and she was basically my old BFF's mom. She kept going on and on about all the college credit's her daughter was getting from AP classes (I think 12 by the end of HS)---which is nothing to sneeze at, but she put her nose up to Dual Enrollment & Early Admissions. My mom was like, "Well she's getting both degrees this year so..." I don't think they talked for a while after that.

I do think focusing on DA/EA has it's own cost though---I couldn't do school sports, I was very out of touch with the majority of my graduating class, and though I was old enough to be in college, I wasn't necessarily old enough to be friends with a lot of them either. No one was mean, but it was an awkward transition. But I didn't go into HS wanting those experiences---I barely even went to my Prom because I just didn't want to.

Sophomore & Junior year; I was at HS from 8:00 AM to 11:30 ish (I left at Lunch)
Senior year: I went to my HS for senior pictures, get my yearbook, and pick up prom tickets. Then I met with my class for graduation rehearsal and ceremony.

They're good if DE isn't an option. I'm from Mass like @quitthedrama and I don't know of anyone who did any sort of dual enrollment. I don't know if it was an option. My AP classes got me enough credits to put me a semester ahead, but I still did 4 years of college. It did give me a little bit of flexibility to drop a class when I needed to because I had the credits (and the extra credits gave me options like earlier dates to pick housing and better mealplans when I reach junior standing a semester early).

 

[MissCongeniality]

I don't personally understand the push for AP classes. I was enrolled in 2 AP classes; World History's and an English class, and ended up transferring out of them at Christmas. I probably would have passed the tests, but during the one year class I had already finished them in college and therefore, would have been a wasted period of time.

My mom had a one-up friend, as I like to call her, and she was basically my old BFF's mom. She kept going on and on about all the college credit's her daughter was getting from AP classes (I think 12 by the end of HS)---which is nothing to sneeze at, but she put her nose up to Dual Enrollment & Early Admissions. My mom was like, "Well she's getting both degrees this year so..." I don't think they talked for a while after that.

I do think focusing on DA/EA has it's own cost though---I couldn't do school sports, I was very out of touch with the majority of my graduating class, and though I was old enough to be in college, I wasn't necessarily old enough to be friends with a lot of them either. No one was mean, but it was an awkward transition. But I didn't go into HS wanting those experiences---I barely even went to my Prom because I just didn't want to.

Sophomore & Junior year; I was at HS from 8:00 AM to 11:30 ish (I left at Lunch)
Senior year: I went to my HS for senior pictures, get my yearbook, and pick up prom tickets. Then I met with my class for graduation rehearsal and ceremony.

The APs are pretty much a requirement for the competitive colleges these days. Average GPAs are above 4...even at many state schools. My friend's daughter was told she didn't have enough APs (she went to a top notch private school for HS) for Georgia. My CP is at a state school here where average for this year's freshmen is 4.13

 

[Official OWECheer]

The APs are pretty much a requirement for the competitive colleges these days. Average GPAs are above 4...even at many state schools. My friend's daughter was told she didn't have enough APs (she went to a top notch private school for HS) for Georgia. My CP is at a state school here where average for this year's freshmen is 4.13

UGA, or Georgia Tech? Because GT is the only school that I can think of with crazy high standards (not that other GA institutions don't have have merit as well).

 

[SL&AM]

The APs are pretty much a requirement for the competitive colleges these days. Average GPAs are above 4...even at many state schools. My friend's daughter was told she didn't have enough APs (she went to a top notch private school for HS) for Georgia. My CP is at a state school here where average for this year's freshmen is 4.13

That may be a state thing; my A in college counted as a 4.5 on my high school transcript. I graduated above a 4.0 in high school and a 4.0 in college.

They're good if DE isn't an option. I'm from Mass like @quitthedrama and I don't know of anyone who did any sort of dual enrollment. I don't know if it was an option. My AP classes got me enough credits to put me a semester ahead, but I still did 4 years of college. It did give me a little bit of flexibility to drop a class when I needed to because I had the credits (and the extra credits gave me options like earlier dates to pick housing and better mealplans when I reach junior standing a semester early).

Yeah I remember tripping up the girl doing the freshman tour at UF when I asked what would change since I'd be coming into school as a junior. I ended up turning down my spot in their School of Education; which I'm really thankful it did, but it did mean better housing options, meal plans...etc, etc. She actually had to go ask how that would even work.

 

[CheerBank]

I don't personally understand the push for AP classes. I was enrolled in 2 AP classes; World History's and an English class, and ended up transferring out of them at Christmas. I probably would have passed the tests, but during the one year class I had already finished them in college and therefore, would have been a wasted period of time.

My mom had a one-up friend, as I like to call her, and she was basically my old BFF's mom. She kept going on and on about all the college credit's her daughter was getting from AP classes (I think 12 by the end of HS)---which is nothing to sneeze at, but she put her nose up to Dual Enrollment & Early Admissions. My mom was like, "Well she's getting both degrees this year so..." I don't think they talked for a while after that.

I do think focusing on DA/EA has it's own cost though---I couldn't do school sports, I was very out of touch with the majority of my graduating class, and though I was old enough to be in college, I wasn't necessarily old enough to be friends with a lot of them either. No one was mean, but it was an awkward transition. But I didn't go into HS wanting those experiences---I barely even went to my Prom because I just didn't want to.

Sophomore & Junior year; I was at HS from 8:00 AM to 11:30 ish (I left at Lunch)
Senior year: I went to my HS for senior pictures, get my yearbook, and pick up prom tickets. Then I met with my class for graduation rehearsal and ceremony.

Everyone wants their kids to get credits in HS to go to college with. What many people do not realize is that you have to get a certain score on the tests for the college to accept them. And as @MissCongeniality said, AP classes are usually weighted more than non-AP classes, resulting in a higher GPA if you do well in the course.

Cp's school only has a few AP classes but instead has an IB program which is very rigorous. It is not all or nothing - you can take IB classes and the exam without doing the full diploma, and get credits from it that way. Not all colleges and universities accept IB credits though, and most only take higher level (HL) courses that span 2 years of HS, so it is definitely something we looked into when former-cp was looking at schools. She wound up doing well on her 3 HL classes and brought 20 credits with her to college which will satisfy Gen Ed credits for her as she needs them. She did not score high enough on her one AP class so although she did not get college credit for it, she is basically retaking the class this semester (Calc) and from what she said so far the semester looks like a review of her AP class. A lot of kids take these classes and manage to balance everything - sports, clubs, work, etc., and get the full high school experience.

 

[Ashley]

Everyone wants their kids to get credits in HS to go to college with. What many people do not realize is that you have to get a certain score on the tests for the college to accept them. And as @MissCongeniality said, AP classes are usually weighted more than non-AP classes, resulting in a higher GPA if you do well in the course.

Cp's school only has a few AP classes but instead has an IB program which is very rigorous. It is not all or nothing - you can take IB classes and the exam without doing the full diploma, and get credits from it that way. Not all colleges and universities accept IB credits though, and most only take higher level (HL) courses that span 2 years of HS, so it is definitely something we looked into when former-cp was looking at schools. She wound up doing well on her 3 HL classes and brought 20 credits with her to college which will satisfy Gen Ed credits for her as she needs them. She did not score high enough on her one AP class so although she did not get college credit for it, she is basically retaking the class this semester (Calc) and from what she said so far the semester looks like a review of her AP class. A lot of kids take these classes and manage to balance everything - sports, clubs, work, etc., and get the full high school experience.

My high school did calc weird. We basically only did calc our senior year, but still somehow took the BC Calc test. I did well enough on my exam to get credit for Calc 1 and 2, but retook Calc 2 my first semester because there was no way I was going straight into multivariable calculus. I think most of the stuff I already knew, but I'm glad I did it.

 

[SL&AM]

Everyone wants their kids to get credits in HS to go to college with. What many people do not realize is that you have to get a certain score on the tests for the college to accept them. And as @MissCongeniality said, AP classes are usually weighted more than non-AP classes, resulting in a higher GPA if you do well in the course.

Cp's school only has a few AP classes but instead has an IB program which is very rigorous. It is not all or nothing - you can take IB classes and the exam without doing the full diploma, and get credits from it that way. Not all colleges and universities accept IB credits though, and most only take higher level (HL) courses that span 2 years of HS, so it is definitely something we looked into when former-cp was looking at schools. She wound up doing well on her 3 HL classes and brought 20 credits with her to college which will satisfy Gen Ed credits for her as she needs them. She did not score high enough on her one AP class so although she did not get college credit for it, she is basically retaking the class this semester (Calc) and from what she said so far the semester looks like a review of her AP class. A lot of kids take these classes and manage to balance everything - sports, clubs, work, etc., and get the full high school experience.

I can definitely see the benefit of them for kids who want to be ahead, but also have the full HS experience. I was just one who fell into the opposite group; I went into college with 60 credits and had no desire to experience HS so that was my own personal trade off.