The cost of a college education continues to rise beyond the means of most Americans. Despite growing sources of federal financial assistance, more Americans carry excessive levels of student debt than ever before per statistics from Motley Fool.
Americans can reduce the cost of tuition in various ways, but among the most popular is earning course credit for work done before finishing high school. In some cases, high schools can engage in dual enrollment—namely by taking certain courses at a community college. In others they can take a college-level class in high school, and ear college credibly by earning a score of 3 or more on Advanced Placement subject tests or completing the International Baccalaureate curriculum.
Of course, those programs come at a cost to the colleges where those students matriculate—registrars can’t charge students for classes they’ve already taken. And over time, colleges and universities have erected new hurdles to receiving dual enrollment, AP, and IB credit.
