AP and Dual Enrollment Night Douglas County High School January 23, 2018

Available Options Handout has AP and Honors courses for 2018-2019 Examples of dual enrollment courses taken this school year by DCHS students

AP & Dual Enrollment Classes Provides more rigor that will challenge and prepare your student Shows colleges/universities that your student is motivated and capable of handling the rigor 5 points added for AP (taken off for HOPE calculations) 3 points added for Honors (taken off for HOPE calculations) College credit added to college and high school transcript for dual enrollment courses

What’s different? Honors and AP classes are more demanding AP classes are similar to first year college courses Students are asked to read and write more Students must learn to evaluate and critically analyze material

Rigor vs. Final GPA Many colleges and universities are more interested in students who take a course load that has academic rigor than one that has a 4.0 GPA without any rigorous coursework Not only is rigor what the post-secondary schools are looking for, rigorous courses will help prepare you for success at the college level.

Hear from some of our instructional leads…

English- Ms. Victoria Burnett AP Language and Composition AP English Literature and Composition

Social Studies- Dr. Shona Brantley AP United States Government and Politics AP World History AP United States History AP Microeconomics AP Human Geography AP Psychology

Science- Mr. Robert Bennett AP Biology AP Chemistry

Math- Dr. Grant Fossum AP Statistics AP Calculus AB

Electives AP Computer Science Principles AP Spanish Language and Culture

Question & Answer about AP

Dual Enrollment Process for DCHS Students Dr. Joy Moses Lead Counselor

Dual Enrollment 2018-2019 Georgia Highlands University of West Georgia West Georgia Technical College