My AP posts have been very popular! You can look at them here:
Four Blog posts about Ap classes : Read from the bottom up, it will make more sense!
I thought I would just make a list of things to consider about AP courses.
1. Your child gets the college credit only if he passes the AP test. ONE test given ONE day. If your daughter has cramps, oh well!
2. Your child can get credit for more than one college class with one AP course, such as AP English Language, IF she passes the AP test with a 4 or 5. The highest scores. For the AP English Language example, she would get ENC1101 and ENC1102 for her year of that AP course IF she passes the one test with a 4 or 5.
3. If your child dual enrolled, she could also have ENC1101 and ENC1102 during the course of the school year as long as she passes the entire course and not just one test.
4. Some of the college courses given for AP classes are NOT OFFERED at many of the state universities! If your child attends a state university that does not offer the class, he does not get the college credit there. The same holds true for Dual Enrollment but a good DE advisor will tell you which classes will transfer to the university of your choice. Many high school counselors either do not know or will not tell parents this truth.
5. In Florida, the state universities can NOT discriminate against Dual Enrollment courses for admission consideration. If your child has AP English Language and passes the test with a 3, the university MUST gauge it the same as your child taking ENC1101 for Dual Enrollment.
6. Dual Enrollment classes have the same weight as AP classes on a high school transcript.
I hope many of you find this information helpful! Any questions please feel free to call, e-mail or respond to this post. My information can be found on my school website:
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1 day ago
I have a question on point number 4
ReplyDelete"4. Some of the college courses given for AP classes are NOT OFFERED at many of the state universities! If your child attends a state university that does not offer the class, he does not get the college credit there. The same holds true for Dual Enrollment but a good DE advisor will tell you which classes will transfer to the university of your choice...."
If your child chooses to do duel enrollment and then finishes his or her AA at the community college then if the University of your choice teaches that class or not is no longer a factor because they take the AA and you start in on your major.
So if you gather up credits at community college through duel enrollment and through AP and are close to getting your AA and a few of your classes aren't offered at your university...it might be to your advantage to just finish up your AA.
Or is there something wrong with this line of thought?
I can only speak for Florida here, but if your student takes an AP class and passes the test with a 3 or higher, say, Human Geography, and the community college does not offer the class then he will not get the credit at the community college. That said, if he receives his AA from the community college then the general education requirements are completed for the state university. His first two years would be complete wether the university offered all of the community college courses or not. There's more to this so feel free to give me a call or e-mail through my school website.
ReplyDeleteHuman Geography just sounds stupid to me in the first place. I would not suggest to my son that he take that as an AP class whether there was this credit issue or not. (By the way my son is only 9 years old so this isn't a pressing issue for me... but I took AP and CLEP in 1984 and had finished my Freshman year through testing so I am always interested in these discussions).
ReplyDeleteSo if you stay away from AP classes that aren't offered widely and just take your basic APs that are a bit easier to pass and widely accepted and offered. And you duel enroll for some classes. I am thinking if you are close to finishing the AA then the wise choice would be to finish the AA. The Universities aren't going anywhere.
My son has his AA from Valencia Communtiy College in Orlando and then transferred to UCF. No problems! The community colleges have smaller class sizes and, usually, a very caring staff of instructors. We had very good results from there!
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