AP versus Community college

So I am deciding between a community college class (oceanography) and the AP class (AP Environmental Science). This is probably a stupid question but are these courses the same thing? (credit-wise) it is listed under environmental science on the college website ad is transferrable but I’m not sure if it counts. Also, how is the courseload different between science classes at the college and ap science classes. I have taken Chinese at the local community but it was comically easy and people always preach about how hard college classes so I think that Chinese must not have been a good representation of the college courseload.

If you are a heritage speaker of a language, a typical level 1 college course in the language will be easy for you. Some colleges do offer courses specifically for heritage speakers.

For transfer credit, the college course stands as it is, if you earn a C or higher grade. For a high school AP course, you need to earn a 3 on the AP exam. However, a college that you want to transfer the credit to may not necessarily accept either one, or require a higher grade or AP score, or accept it only for generic credit rather than subject credit for a specific course. Each college may have its own policy. AP credit is often listed on college web sites, but transfer credit from other colleges may only be listed if the pair of colleges has an articulation agreement (most commonly exists from community colleges to same state public universities).

Just experience from my son’s DE and IB: he got 6 credits for IB history but they only accepted 3 for English college as his community Only one course was accepted to his university out of the two linked to his DE. In hindsight I would have kept him in IB English HL (he would have had 12 credits going in).