Dual enrollment classes require planning. If you and your student are considering taking dual enrollment courses in high school, you may want to do a little research before signing up.
Consider these two things:
- which dual enrollment classes will transfer the easiest to the college you may end up at for freshman year
- which classes are funded (if you are in the state of Georgia and you want to take classes for free).
Which Dual Enrollment Classes Will Transfer?
To research what classes transfer, my favorite method is to go to google and type in “<college choice> transfer equivalency table,” where <college choice> is the college that you plan to go to full-time as a freshman after high school. What you are looking to find out is if that college will accept your dual enrollment credit.
For example, “Georgia Tech transfer equivalency table”. Go to the link that comes up. Sometimes you will have to click through a few pages to get to the actual table.
Once inside the table, you put in the college where you are taking the class for DE and the class number. Then it will tell you whether it will transfer to this particular college. In our example, whether it will transfer to Georgia Tech. In some cases, the course might not be listed and that could be because this class has not been considered yet. Most core classes are listed though.
Use the site called Transferology to help you see which courses will transfer to various colleges.
Dual Enrollment in Georgia
If you are located in Georgia, you can use this link to look at the drop-down list of all the colleges in Georgia that offer dual enrollment classes. The classes funded for free under the HOPE Scholarship funding are on this list. Select the college you are interested in. Check to see if any classes are what you are looking for. Note, the 1000-level classes are the best ones to start with. Also, the ones labeled CORE in the category list are most likely to transfer well to any college you select.
Which Classes To Research
How do you know which courses to take? I usually suggest that the student should pick a major at a college that they might end up at. Most colleges will have some general education requirements for their major. Print that page out and use that as a guideline for which classes to take. I usually suggest:
- find courses that they might excel at
- leave science courses to later because those are typically harder and weed-out courses in college
- select courses that are on the list for the general education requirements at the school they may choose for their college freshman year
Other Information on Dual Enrollment
For more information on how to choose which classes to take, go to this post. Looking for reasons why or why not to dual enroll? Check out this post. If you are deciding whether dual enrollment would benefit you, check this out.
I hope this information helps you!
Blessings,
