Your son will not have taken over 4 APs? 5 or 6 usually isn’t considered “ridiculous” overload of APs (I went to a very very very basic public school with a solid honors/magnet entity and took 8 or something like that). It would be considered fairly standard. Like if a student takes them over 2 years and takes more than 2 in one year. They’ll have an extra one left over. Kind of doesn’t matter who it applies to anyway. It is just how the policy works, and most folks admitted to Emory who went to a school who offered AP/IB will have taken and passed over 4, so should know that they can use the left over ones informally
Bernie I’ve already stated that my son has taken 1 junior year and 4 senior year. Please read above. Whatever he chooses to do with the extra one is fine with me. Placing out of one intro class won’t make or break his experience. He will decide what he wants to do. If he wants to take an easier history class that’s perfectly fine with me.
@collegemom9 : Please read above: This isn’t only for him at this point. Others, such as the OP trying to do a double major can benefit from knowing regardless of if it was originally aimed at you. There is really no need for the current or original defensiveness. A simple “thank you we can take that into account” could have sufficed. Also, to clarify, there are plenty of easy history (or whatever) classes at all levels. The idea was that the lower division ones aren’t as easy as people think for the reasons I mentioned. 100 level even in social sciences does not always = easy grade, but does often = “boring”. The two are not the same. What I mentioned was simply a way to access more interesting courses. Whether they end up being the easier ones or not is up to who chooses to use the strategy and how they want to use it.
Thank you. We will take that into account 