<p>I know some colleges take ap credit, what im asking is, for example, lets say i submit ap psych score to the school. and if they accept it, does that mean i get an A for the class automatically and i don't have to take it? or i just don't take it and instead of taking 6 classes, i just take 5 without being counted for my gpa?</p>
<p>AP Scores are usually NOT counted in your GPA, ie no grade assigned to your AP credit.</p>
<p>They’ll most likely just bump you up to a higher level course and/or give you the credit. No GPA boosting.</p>
<p>Individual colleges have their own policies about determining whether to grant college credit for AP test scores, what the required test score in a particular subject to earn credit is, whether the credit earned via AP test score will be allowed to satisfy a particular general education requirement. Or, for highly selective colleges, the college may only use the AP test score to allow you to skip the first (or first two) courses of the subject and start with advanced standing, but no additional credit. You have to read the college web pages carefully to see what each college chooses to do.</p>
<p>But if College X grants you 3 credit hours of college credit for passing an AP test, on your transcript it will be marked as “credit by examination” and there will be no grade recorded on the transcript except a P (for passing) or S (for satisfactory). The college may grant credit for a specific course or it may grant general college credit, but not specify the course. For example, if College X uses your AP Psych Test score for the specific three hour Psych 101 course, your transcript will look something like this:</p>
<p>3 cr Psych 101 P (AP test credit)</p>
<p>If the college grants you credit for the AP Psych test, but decides that AP Psych is not equivalent to any of their intro psych courses, then your transcript might read:</p>
<p>3 cr Psych 1XX P (AP test credit)</p>
<p>In both cases, the AP credit is not used to compute your GPA. Indeed, most colleges do not use grades in transfer courses to compute the GPA either. Finally you also asked:</p>
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<p>The number of courses you take during your first semester freshmen year will typically be four or five courses, each of which will be worth three or four credit hours. A few courses may count as five credit courses or two credit courses, but those are pretty rare. A typical full time load for a college student is around 15 credits/semester. [You need to average 15 credits/semester to graduate on time from most four year degree programs.]</p>
<p>Colleges on quarter and trimester systems have different standard loads since those courses are typically meet more frequently or for longer periods of time and go faster because a quarter or trimester is shorter than a semester.</p>