<p>I know that to get into college you have to have a good amount of AP's and EC's and SAT scores and whatnot - but I am mostly worried about AP for now.</p>
<p>I am a sophomore in High School and I would love more than anything to go to UF. The thing is, the AP exams are pretty expensive and my dad can't afford to pay for them. I am planning on taking quite a few because I've just met the prerequisites. (I go to FLVS)</p>
<p>I know that if you make a 3 or higher on some AP classes, they are accepted as college credit. However, what would happen if I took the AP classes without the Exams? Would they look down on me for it or would they understand that although I can't pay for it that I'm at least trying?</p>
<p>Also, if I took the AP class without the exam, would it still count as credit?</p>
<p>At my school, if you don’t take the AP exam, instead of the 6.0 gpa you get for ap classes, you get a 5.0 as an honor class.</p>
<p>One thing to look into, if you qualify for financial aid from the school (at my school this would be free or reduced lunch etc), at my school, they help pay for the AP exams.</p>
<p>Also, if the credit can be used, in the long run, those can save lots of money. Look and see what credits you might actually want in college and perhaps take those.</p>
<p>For example, I want to be an engineer, so all my humanities credits I will definitly take if I can from AP. However, I’m not really sure that I want to take my calculus credit since I may want to retake that in college so I am positive I am up to speed.</p>
<p>In most public school districts in order to earn a qualifying grade on your transcript you must sit for the AP exam. If you do not then you do not earn AP credit assuming you pass the class. Ask the school principal or guisdance counselor. Secondly, AP exams are given by College Board who also administers the SAT, LSAT and some other exams. They generally have a fee waiver program. Usually you qualify if you meet the rerquirements for school free or reduced lunch programs. Ask your guidance counselor. In many school districts the AP exam fee are aid for by the school district. Good luck.</p>
<p>Previous posters are correct - try and see if you qualify for getting the fee paid. In our school district, the district pays for everyone’s fee to take the test. Passing the test can save you big bucks on future college tuition. The only way to get college credit for AP classes is to pass the AP tests at the college’s required level. Some colleges require you pass the test with a 4 or 5, others just require a 3.</p>
<p>But to answer your question - UF and most other schools don’t even look at your AP scores for admission. They look to see if you’ve challenged yourself and taken AP classes, but the only time your AP scores are considered is after you decide to go there and they figure out what credits you get for your AP classes.</p>
<p>Some schools pay for AP exams and some don’t im assuming. Also, UF does not take into consideration AP exam scores for freshman admission so not taking the exams can’t hurt you. The only disadvantage is that if you do end up going to UF you will have less college credits than most of the other students there.</p>
<p>You can probably apply for a waiver. I don’t know how because, as someone else said, it usually goes with free lunch. Do some google searching or call the College Board and explain your situation. That said, a lot of people don’t send the AP scores anyway because if they did, that would mean paying to send both SAT and AP scores to every university to which you applied, which would add up. The College Board only lets you send scores to ONE university for free when you take the exam which is, presumably, the university to which you’ve already been accepted at the end of senior year (Otherwise, if you sent it earlier, you would be sending scores which might or might not be good). So I wouldn’t sweat it from that standpoint. But you might want to try to take the test. Another possibility is to take the CLEP test in the classes you think you did well in. A friend of my daughter’s took CLEP tests when she didn’t take the AP level of the class and was able to get college credit that way.</p>