✅ What You Need to Do as a Student
Simply enter your high school and college courses into GradMap exactly as they appear on your transcripts, and mark which ones are dual enrollment.
We take care of the rest.
GradMap automatically understands how to report your dual-enrollment courses correctly for each type of college application—ensuring you get full credit, avoid errors, and stay compliant with each platform's rules.
🎓 What Is Dual Enrollment?
Dual enrollment refers to college-level courses taken while in high school, often earning both high school and college credit. These courses boost academic rigor and can help you meet graduation and A–G requirements faster. But they must be reported properly on each application.
📄 How GradMap Auto‑Fills Dual‑Enrollment Courses by Application
🔷 Common App
Dual enrollment with high school credit?
GradMap places the course in your high school course list, under "Current or Most Recent Year Courses."
College courses: The Common App has no place to list individual college courses. Add them yourself as a note in Writing > Additional Information, in this format:
College Courses I've taken throughout High School:
College Name, Term, Year, College Course Name, Grade, College Credits Received
No high school credit?
Add the course to the same note in Writing > Additional Information.
✅ Compliant with Common App guidelines
✅ Avoids duplicate or missing entries
🔷 UC Application
All dual-enrollment courses go in the College Coursework section—never the high school coursework section—even if your high school transcript shows them.
To count toward UC's A-G requirements, the course must:
Be from a regionally accredited college
Be UC-transferable
Be worth 3+ semester (or 4+ quarter) units
Clearly fall in an A-G subject area
Be taken for a letter grade, earning a C or better (not C-)
If it meets these tests and was completed between summer after 9th grade and summer after 11th grade, it counts toward the UC GPA — including a D or F. A UC-transferable course earns one extra GPA point, the same treatment as any other approved honors-level course.
All college coursework completed in high school must be reported, even courses that don't meet the A-G tests above (those go under "Other coursework" instead) — failing to report college coursework can lead to application cancellation.
GradMap:
Auto‑fills only the College Coursework section
Flags courses that meet A–G requirements for proper credit
✅ Compliant with UC Admissions policy
✅ Ensures proper transfer and A–G credit eligibility
🔷 CSU (Cal State Apply)
CSU treats all dual-enrollment courses as college coursework, even if they're taught at your high school.
GradMap:
Auto‑fills courses under the college's name
Maps them to the correct A–G subject area
Ensures honors points and full-year credit are awarded
✅ Compliant with CSU guidance
✅ Maximizes CSU GPA calculation and credit transfer
📊 Summary Table
Application | Dual Enrollment w/ HS Credit | No HS Credit | GradMap Auto‑Fill Action |
Common App | HS Coursework + note in Additional Information | Note in Additional Information only | Matches official transcript structure + credit rules |
UC Application | College Coursework Only | College Coursework | Flags A–G alignment and avoids transcript conflict |
CSU Application | College Coursework Only | College Coursework | Ensures A–G mapping and full credit recognition |
🔒 Why This Matters
Each application system has different rules for reporting dual enrollment. If you report them incorrectly, you might:
Miss out on GPA boosts or college credit
Confuse admissions officers
Need to resubmit transcripts or make corrections
With GradMap, you don't have to worry.
Just enter your course info and mark which ones are dual enrollment—we'll do the rest.