Hello, I am attending a community college next year and realized that my prospective colleges that I will apply to in two years will not accept some of the AP courses that I passed like for say AP Psychology. Will I be able to take that same course at community college or will I be forced to take a more advanced class since I already passed the exam, even if the credits do not apply towards my General Education and are basically worthless credits. I just do not want to have to take a more advanced class than necessary. Other classes that won’t receive credit: AP Comparative Government, AP World History, AP Physics Mechanics
You don’t have to tell your CC about the AP exams that you have taken, and then they won’t award you credit or placement for those exams.
However, I do recommend that you report all of your AP exams to the CC, and that you accept all of the credit that they give you for those exams. This will give you more flexibility in your program at the CC. For example, if you are planning to complete an AA degree, then AP Psych, AP Comp Gov, AP World History, and AP Physics/Mechanics will add up to the equivalent of a full semester worth of credit, and will probably cover at least three different Gen Eds at that CC. This means you can finish your AA a semester earlier, and transfer sooner. Lots of colleges and universities will treat a full AA or AS degree as fulfilling their Gen Ed requirements even when those are a bit different from the Gen Eds at the CC. If you want to take a more advanced course in any of those topics, the AP credits probably will let you place into a higher course. But if you don’t want to place into a higher course in that subject, there is nothing keeping you from taking an entirely different course instead.
If you know that you want to major in one of those subjects, and you also know that the college where you plan to transfer won’t accept the AP credit but will accept the equivalent CC course, then it makes sense to take the CC course.