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Not in my district or in any other district I know about. Such a requirement would make no sense. The policy should be clearly stated on the dual enrollment form. If it isn't ask some one.

It depends because not everyone has access to those kinds of resources.College admissions often receive a report with your application from your school that details the rigor of courses there. First, they will look at your transcript to see if you challenged yourself. The AP limit at my school is 8, so my transcript of 5 APs and 2 Dual Enrollment makes me competitive because most of my classes could be deemed as tough. If you take 17 APs, then you definitely challenged yourself no matter what the AP limit is, so don't worry on that part. Dual enrollment versus 17 APs is meaningless.Assuming you got mostly 5s on those exams, they then look for a theme in your courses. I'm declaring as a chemical engineering major, so I took AP Chem, Dual Enrollment Organic Chem, AP Bio, and AP Calc BC. That's more than half my course load being relevant to my interests. This is important because they quickly look to extracurriculars to assess your use of time as an indicator of 'passion'. The other half, APUSH, AP Lit/Lang, and Dual Enrollment Latin, are well represented with the clubs I lead and participate in and other uses of my time. It's hard to show that 17 APs all relate to your future career interests in some way.For instance, your whole application is focused on your dream of being an astronaut, hoping to major aeronautics. You took AP Physics C, BC Calc, AP Stats, AP Chemistry, and maybe AP Research if so offered. Now you also list AP Micro/Macroeconomics with scores of 4 or 5, but nowhere else do you even mention an interest in such a field. Admissions officers come to the conclusion that you took the AP because it was an AP. That's not good. However, it's not rejection-worthy. It becomes grounds for rejection when NONE of your hardest classes (or close to none) agree with your passions elsewhere on your CV, essay, or general application.You need to be focused on YOU and take relevant classes to YOUR interests. Admissions could care less about a 5 in AP Psychology if you're an environmental science person with little outside interest or motivation to pursue psychology in college. Besides, if you tackle high school with the main goal of enjoying it and molding it to your interests (and not to any poorly formed suggestion as to “what admissions officers want”), then you intrinsically win out anyway by enjoying your days of youth doing what you love and not studying the test strategies for getting a 5 in AP Toilet-cleaning.See Chris Petersons' blog entry, titled “Applying Sideways” at the MIT Blogs. There are lots of articles there that are helpful for all selective college applicants.Good luck! And don't forget to breathe sometimes. Admissions officers know you're human too!

I am biased towards dual enrollment because I benefitted heavily by doing so. I got my associate's degree in high school. I had a full ride to undergrad (five renewable scholarships). Not only did I get extra money in the form of a refund check every semester, but I also graduated in three years because I was able to transfer my entire associate's degree to my university under Michigan’s MACRO agreement. The money left over from one of my scholarships covered half the tuition in my graduate program. The remaining funds are going towards books for the first year and a half for law school.Every college course you take now, (so long as it is transferable) is one less class you will have to take in college. It is an additional incentive if dual enrollment is free for you like it was for me because you won’t have to pay for that course in college, again, so long as it counts. Focus on gen ed requirements, english, math, science, etc. As those are more likely to transfer. You also can get information on what classes colleges accept as transfer and how many transfer credits you are allowed from the websites of schools you are interested in, or you can call the school.Good luck! let me know if you have any more questions about this or school in general.