<p>Hey everyone! I committed to UMD and just wanted to ask one quick question: do high school grades in AP classes affect my college GPA? Most people say they don't--and I hope that's how it is at UMD--but the school my friend is going to counts the high school grade as if it were a college one. At UMD, that won't matter, right? My high school grades are my high school grades, and won't have any affect on my undergrad GPA? </p>
<p>(For context: I should be going in with ~50 AP credits provided I do well on the exams this week and next. I want to know as I need a high ugrad GPA for law school admissions. Specifically, I'll be skipping math, econ, natural science, humanities, and historical science (?) gen ed reqs--yay for never taking another math class again!) </p>
<p>I’ve never heard of a grade in a high school AP course being carried forward to your college transcript - where is your friend going?. In most cases, the only thing that matters is the score you earn on the AP exam. At D’s school, she received credit for all her AP exams but no grade is listed on her transcript, so AP-credited courses don’t count towards her GPA but do count towards her credit hours needed to graduate. I think that’s pretty standard. Do check the individual policy at UMD to see what the required score is, what classes you’ll place out of, and if there are any restrictions by major on placing out of a class as well as whether there’s any maximum on the number of credits you can earn via AP.</p>
<p>Ok, thank you! They’re going to some small lib arts school. </p>
<p>Only grades earned in UMD classes count toward your UMD derived GPA.</p>
<p>Source: current student with AP and transfer credit.</p>
<p>I would check with law schools just to make sure they don’t use the HS grades. I do know some graduate programs would consider the grade you earned in college classes while still attending high school. (Taking college summer programs for credit! for example).</p>
<p>You’ll see the credits on your transcript,but they will not impact your GPA.</p>