How many high school credits for DE science courses with lab?

[EKT]

I know that as a rule, 3 college credits = 1 high school credit. (So, a 3-credit DE Composition I course = 1 high school English credit.)  

My question is for 4-credit DE science lab courses. On the transcript, do I issue 1 high school credit for those courses as well, or do I start getting into decimals (like, 1.25 credits?). I am being careful to name the courses "Plant Biology with Lab," but I guess my concern is that I definitely want the colleges to understand at a glance that these are courses with full labs, not just 3-credit science courses. (I hope I am making sense.) Please advise. Thank you! 🙂

[8filltheheart]

1. Labs are just expected.

FWIW, in college my kids have often spent significantly more time on their 1 hr lab than the 3 hr course itself.  Doesnt change the crs. 

I definitely would not give any additional cr for the high school transcript.

[8filltheheart]

Think of it this way....kids taking ap cal bc get 1 math cr. Kids DEing get 1 cr each for both cal 1& cal 2. Supposedly the same coursework. It is what it is. Not worth overcomplicating.

[madteaparty]

1 hour ago, EKT said:

I know that as a rule, 3 college credits = 1 high school credit. (So, a 3-credit DE Composition I course = 1 high school English credit.)  

My question is for 4-credit DE science lab courses. On the transcript, do I issue 1 high school credit for those courses as well, or do I start getting into decimals (like, 1.25 credits?). I am being careful to name the courses "Plant Biology with Lab," but I guess my concern is that I definitely want the colleges to understand at a glance that these are courses with full labs, not just 3-credit science courses. (I hope I am making sense.) Please advise. Thank you! 🙂

Do you have to count high school credits? I think i gave 1 high school credit whether class was 4 or 3 credits, I just don’t remember ever putting that number down somehere? I did have a column for college credit earned per class as DS had so many, and the class description would say “biology 101 [or whatever official class name is was], with lav (College Name). 

[silver]

My kid has several 4 and 5 credit DE courses (calculus, lab science Spanish, etc). I count 3-5 DE credits as 1 high school credit. 

[EKS]

I would give one high school credit for such a class.

I actually went against the 3 DE units equaling 1 high school credit thing and gave 0.5 high school credits for all of my son's DE courses because that's how much work they seemed to be.

[Farrar]

Another vote to give a single credit.

I have seen some 5 credit language classes that are accelerated get 2 or a credit and a half, especially if the state has something saying it's equivalent to a full year of a language (and therefore 2 years in high school).

They'll see that it was a 4 credit course on the DE transcript. You can additionally tout it on the course descriptions if you want. Or if the student took a lot of 4 credit lab sciences, you could include that in the school profile as one of the key ways you used dual enrollment. But those probably aren't that important.

[Lori D.]

Agree with the above posters -- 1 credit for a 4-unit science DE course with labs.

As with all DE and AP, you can choose to give the grade for that class more weight on the transcript (use a weighted grade scale). Below is the typical grade points awarded for calculating GPA for regular high school courses, "honors" high school courses, and AP/DE courses which are presumably college level:

. . . regular . . "honors" . . AP / DE
A = 4.0 . . . . . . 4.5 . . . . .5.0
B = 3.0 . . . . . . 3.5 . . . . .4.0
C = 2.0 . . . . . . 2.5 . . . . .3.0
D = 1.0 . . . . . . .1.5 . . . . .2.0

If you weight the DE courses, be sure to notate that on the transcript, and provide both the weighted and unweighted scales on the transcript.

Edited June 24 by Lori D.

[EKT]

Thank you so much! (I love when the board gives a consistent answer, lol! So helpful!) I am also glad because whole number credits look so much cleaner and clearer. 🙂

[NittanyJen]

On 6/22/2024 at 9:00 PM, EKT said:

I know that as a rule, 3 college credits = 1 high school credit. (So, a 3-credit DE Composition I course = 1 high school English credit.)  

My question is for 4-credit DE science lab courses. On the transcript, do I issue 1 high school credit for those courses as well, or do I start getting into decimals (like, 1.25 credits?). I am being careful to name the courses "Plant Biology with Lab," but I guess my concern is that I definitely want the colleges to understand at a glance that these are courses with full labs, not just 3-credit science courses. (I hope I am making sense.) Please advise. Thank you! 🙂

I listed those as 1 high school credit, but made sure „With Lab“ was in the course name on our transcript.