<p>i was just wondering if some people could explain ap credit for me?
thanks cause i am totally lost on the subject and any help would be much appreciated.</p>
<p>Just personal experience, but I took all the AP classes in high school, but when it came time to take the tests, I skipped them because I didn't want to study. I still had some random AP US/World History credits though, so I took those and they were good for general liberal arts credits.</p>
<p>Other than those history tests, for my subjects like chemistry, physics, Calc II, I am glad that I didn't take the AP tests. GPA is important, so if you took those classes in high school, I found it was pretty easy to ace them at Michigan. I would recommend just taking the intro classes at U-M like everyone else and beating the other students on the curve. You'll get to the more advanced classes in time and have that extra GPA cushion if you run into trouble.</p>
<p>k thanks i might do that for some science classes
but if i did take the ap tests and got 4's and 5's would i have a lot of college credit. so i take us history 5, calc ab 4, chem 5, bio 4, physics 5, stats 5, lang 4, both econs 5 would i start out with a lot of college credit i think the umich website says something like 40 or so, so would i already have 40 out of the 120ish credits to graduate from the lsa college? Or would i just test out of the general classes and start out with 0 credits in college?</p>
<p>you would start out with 40 credits.</p>
<p>You would start out at 40 credits, but some of those credits would probably be useless- i.e. AP Lang since you have to take a writing class anyway in LSA. It's not necessarily a good thing to start out with a lot of credits since you get charged junior/senior tuition when you get to 55. My tuition went up by $4000 a year. I'm not even taking any junior level classes since I am engineer and most of my AP credits were in history/english/stats/spanish...yet I still get charged more tuition. The only advantage is being able to register earlier for classes.</p>
<p>so would you guys suggest not starting off with that much credit? can i not count some of the ap tests as credit or what?</p>
<p>Yes, the university doesn't force you to count those AP grades into credits, but I think you have to request if you don't want them.</p>
<p>i would go ahead and use them. get to skip out on the weeder classes</p>