My youngest is officially a college student, and stupid crap guidance couselors say..

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That's not entirely the whole picture. Dual enrollment students have 2 more years before being "college ready" for classes that have 100 level Eng/math pre-reqs. So students can enroll in anything that doesn't have the pre-req. Science, for instance typically has the math 100 requirement, while psych might have the English requirement. On our "list" of dual enrollment options (>100 courses) about half don't have ENG/MATH pre-req requirement- this will vary by state policy, not so much school policy. Kids doing the dual enrollment classes sometimes are already 100 level ready in ENG/MATH so they can choose anything, other kids might still need 11th and 12th grade English/math. No one is "behind" in that case, so to make anyone FEEL behind is uninformed.

This is what I said. This is not specific to your daughter's situation because that's more of an advisement issue rather than an issue with remedial courses and placement tests. I was not talking about dual enrollment students; I was talking about remedial courses in general related to the article Rebel100 posted. All of the people in my CC online courses were adults. This is easy to infer from introductory posts where people talk about their families and work history. So, yes, they were behind.