<p>If you meet the college's required score on an AP test for credit, do they automatically place you in a higher class or do you have the choice to take the course over again? I want to know because say if I get a 4 on the calc AB test, and a college I didn't expert to go to is known to have a difficult math department, can I choose to take Calc AB again or forced to take BC?</p>
<p>You're not a fan of learning for the sake of learning?</p>
<p>I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I want to be in the toughest classes I can be. Having to take an intro math or intro english class would be murder.</p>
<p>Check with that college specifically. I was just looking at one last night that said that you either got credit for the AP test, or the class, and if you chose to take the class again, then you lost the AP credit hours. Then I checked another school that said that students could take "elective credit" for the AP test if they wanted to take the course again. </p>
<p>So it depends.</p>
<p>BTW, brian, there are some schools that will give credit for the AP, but won't let you exempt out of their intro series, because they feel it's fundamental to their core. So, for example, some schools I looked at last night said flat out, "While you can have elective credit for Calculus, the department feels that the course serve a valuable purpose of introducing students to the department's procedure and staff, and therefore, the courses themselves may not be exempted. " So for schools like that, no amount of APing is going to get you out of those "intro" courses.</p>
<p>so either way, colleges cannot force me to skip the class?</p>
<p>You would need to check with your specific college.</p>
<p>Yeah, but also you don't have to send the scores. Also, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't force you to move on if you feel you wanted to retake it.</p>
<p>S got a 4 on Calc. AB as a Jr. Didn't take BC as a senior. Had all AP scores sent to his school. When he got to his school for Orientation, he had automatically been placed in Calc.2 he told his advisor that he thought he should repeat Calc. 1 since it had been well over a year since he had seen Calc. So they let him sign up for Calc1.</p>
<p>He gets in the class and starts failing pretty badly (well, he thought so) and wanted out. His advisor told him to drop the class because it would be foolish to stay in it and do poorly when he already had credit for that class from his AP score. So he drops the class and registers for Calc.2 for the Spring semester. He ended up with a B in Calc. 2.</p>