Pros And Cons Of The Dual Enrollment Program

The Dual Enrollment Program: Negative and Positive

When someone starts to go into post-secondary education, one would think that it would

start after high school. Some high schools have been provided a different view on this tradition.

Now schools offer a program that not only gives students a head start, but it also allows them to

have an experience at a younger age. The Dual Enrollment Program provides benefits that could

eventually help in the future. Students will appreciate the early access to a higher and more

advanced education. Although students are given this important opportunity, they are put in

difficult situations that could put stress on top of the stress that they deal with at school. The

Dual Enrollment Program may consist
Some colleges have decided that spending money on

tuition, books, and classes will have no purpose for students of lower incomes because their

higher risk of dropping out.

Once students are in the Dual Enrollment Program it becomes a stressful ordeal for their

schedule. The dual enrolled students are taking a minimum of seven to eight classes today and a

minimum of two classes at college. This can leave students schedules discombobulated because

of the lack of time they will have to do anything such as schoolwork. When students start to do

poor in classes at high school and college it affects grades as well. "… The additional

requirements of a Dual Enrollment Program could cause your grades to suffer and defeat its own

purpose" (college express). The purpose of the Dual Enrollment Program is to help students

improve life at both college and high school, but with the stressful burden it places on the student

schedule, it makes it impossible to get through the program.

For students enrolled, if the problem was not grades or a stressful schedule it was their

ability to get comfortable on the campus with other students. Most students felt as if they
Although it has been shown that the dual

enrollment program has been said to be harsh on student's grades, on the other hand, it provides

students with early on education that most teenagers their age do not. Dual enrolled students gain

exposure to various opportunities around the campus including help from study coaches.

As of negative effects of the Dual Enrollment Program teachers, colleges and counselors

may deal with the stress of getting students prepared for classes but the still view the Dual

Enrollment Program as helpful. For colleges, there were little to one effect of the dual enrollment

at the colleges. There were mostly positive effects for the college because the Dual Enrollment

Program helps the school with recruiting future students to the school. The dual enrollment has

provided the participants with exposure to the life of a college student. It prepares students for

something new and additionally, it prepares them for a life outside of the high school walls It

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displays positive and negative benefits for its participants but once concluding the research it is

still an efficient working