<p>This is out of place but I'm not sure where to put it and since I visit this page most, I thought I'd put it here.</p>
<p>I'm a junior in high school and my school doesn't offer AP classes (it's this "progressive" thing). Next year, I will be taking two classes called Advanced Topics in Bio and Advanced Calculus BC, both which prepare you well enough to be able to take the AP exams at the end of the year. I am also proficient enough in French to be able to take the AP exam in it. I was wondering how useful would it be to actually take the tests at the end of senior year if it's not going to go on college aps. Would you suggest I take them?</p>
<p>It can give you credit to skip introductory courses in college. So if you're going through all the effort to get an A in the class, you might as well work to get a 5 on the test and get out of intro calc classes (and possibly bio also, although I can't say I have enough interest in the subject to know about Yale's policy).</p>
<p>French would be the most useful for yale... if you get a 5 it would reduce your language requirement quite a bit. Others would only be useful to place out of intro classes, or prerequisites for your major.</p>
<p>^ How useful is placing out? Those were my reasons for taking the exams. However, I thought, if I were to major in Bio, which is very likely, I think I would prefer to take the Intro courses as a basis, just in case. Is this a good idea to follow or not?</p>
<p>Every school has different policies on AP scores some of which can be very beneficial to the student. Not to be negative, but you can’t count on being admitted to Yale or even that you won’t fall equally in love with another school before it is time to decide. Given that you are a junior and don’t really know where you will end up, it makes sense to take the AP exams so you will have as many options as possible wherever you go.</p>