<p>What's Duke's policy on AP credits?</p>
<p>I'd like an in depth answer to this as well. I know that only 2 will count towards the grad requirement of 34, which begs the question of what are the advantages to taking more AP tests beyond that? It's my impression that after you use two for credit, the rest only lets you skip into a higher level course, which is not even advantageous in many cases because intro classes provide a better base and higher GPA?</p>
<p>bump anyone?</p>
<p>AP for Trinity: <a href="http://www.aas.duke.edu/trinity/t-reqs/credit.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.aas.duke.edu/trinity/t-reqs/credit.html</a>
AP for Pratt: <a href="http://www.pratt.duke.edu/students/policies.php#10%5B/url%5D">http://www.pratt.duke.edu/students/policies.php#10</a> - in addition for Pratt, note that only 2 courses can go towards the 5 required Social Science / Humanities classes.</p>
<p>I understand that. So I've taken 4 AP tests already with scores of 4 or 5, there would be no advantage whatsoever in me taking say... AP English Literature correct? BTW this is for Trinity.</p>
<p>The advantage, really, is that instead of taking an intro course, you get to take an upper level course, which usually means you get to focus on some field of literature (or whatever subject you AP out of) and get to treat it with more depth. I would point you to President Brodhead's speech at Convocation last year to the Class of 2008 at <a href="http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2004/08/brodhead_0804.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2004/08/brodhead_0804.html</a>
especially the part in the middle about fulfilling the requirements of The Curriculum.</p>
<p>Thank you so much, if i ever meet you, im giving you a hug.</p>
<p>Does taking AP credit reduce the number of credits you take and in turn reduce tuition? How do grad/med schools look at AP credits? Also, has anybody taken ap credits and found that they struggled in a higher level course?</p>