<p>Evidence can be factual or anecdotal.</p>
<p>well… if you do well enough on an AP exam, you won’t take that class in college… so…</p>
<p>and a test is a test. Some people have bad tests so I bet you’ll see people saying they did poorly on the AP test but rocked the class in college</p>
<p>oh yeah i was saying more like all 4 years of college, not just the corrosponding courses to the AP exams</p>
<p>I can only give my own personal anecdotal evidence, as a current college senior who took 12 AP classes in high school. I am also a National Merit Scholar and I received basically a full ride to a large public university in the southeast. I currently have a 3.6 GPA as a chemistry major, math minor, and classics minor.</p>
<p>I took the following AP exams with the following scores:
AP Human Geography: 4
AP Latin Literature: 5
AP English Language: 5
AP US History: 5
AP Psychology: 5
AP Chemistry: 3
AP Biology: 5
AP Latin Vergil: 5
AP English Literature: 5
AP US Government: 5
AP Statistics: 5
AP Calculus AB: 4</p>
<p>Don’t know if that helps at all, but here’s one data point.</p>
<p>^^I think you just wanted to brag lol</p>
<p>mmmmmm…</p>
<p>I wonder if a kid who gets all “5” grades on his AP tests might tend to be a better college student than one who gets all “1” grades???</p>
<p>Meh? I’m really proud of how well I did in high school but my college grades don’t seem to quite live up to it. I definitely feel like my AP classes helped me a lot in preparing for college, though.</p>
<p>Another data point: I had a 3.6 GPA at a public NJ HS, took 12 APs (got about 1/2 5’s, about 1/2 4’s, and 1 3), and used my 46 AP credits to finish college in 2 years (UVa) with a 3.5 GPA.</p>
<p>chandi. that’s interesting to me that your worst AP score was chemistry, yet you ended up majoring in it</p>
<p>Yeah, probably a combination of several factors. It was the class I found most interesting, but it was my teacher’s first time teaching AP chem (half of the class of 16 people ended up passing, but only one had a score higher than 3, and he’s in a chemistry PhD program at this point) and I wasn’t really confident or fast with math at that point.</p>
<p>I was uncomfortable enough that I opted to take calc 1 again even though I was offered credit for it, but I ended up getting an A+ in it with minimal effort, and I breezed through the general chemistry sequence similarly. I think the exposure to the subject in high school did really help even if it didn’t translate to a high score on the exam.</p>
<p>I didn’t even have to take bio in college, and I was probably most pleased with that score considering I took it online, essentially teaching it to myself, and no one who took the class at my school even passed it.</p>
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<p>I was never anywhere close to Ivy League potential, and I definitely wouldn’t claim to be a genius. I only even applied to the university I attend, and I’m pretty sure I would have been rejected from any and every Ivy League school. >.<</p>
<p>Of course there is a correlation between AP scores and college performance:</p>
<p>Someone who scores 1’s on all of his AP’s WILL get a GPA that is between Lindsay Lohan and 2.2.</p>
<p>I did very average on all of my AP exams. I got mostly 2s and 3s, with only a single 4 (AP English Lit). No 5s or 1s. My GPA is currently a 3.8 as a math major. I’m in PTK, honors, Dean’s List, etc. I don’t think it correlates exactly, since if it did, I would have a ~3.0 GPA.</p>
<p>Someone said something about exposure in high school helping. I completely agree with them.</p>
<p>of course i know theres a correlation, i was just wondering if anyone had any data or anything on how strong the correlation was</p>
<p>Well, my daughter took AP Calc BC in high school, got an A in the class and a 5 on the AP test.
Is taking the next level Calc in college, just got a 31 on a test. Having a really tough time with it. Different teaching methods, less time to work on it, and lack of sleep. </p>
<p>She is working really hard, but struggling to maintain her grades in college. National Merit Scholar finalist in high school, getting grades in the 70’s in college. She was all honors and APs in high school, and chosen to be in the honors program in college.</p>
<p>I don’t think that how one does in AP classes in high school is any indictation of what college is going to be like.</p>
<p>You also have to remember students are going into different majors and different schools.</p>
<p>Why do u want to see the correlation anyway?</p>
<p>I’d say some, but not much. I think doing well on AP’s comes more from studying hard. Doing well in college is more about studying smart because there are so many ways you can be strategic to do better in college.</p>
<p>I failed my AP Stats exam. (I got a 2.) I had an A in the class, though.</p>
<p>I’m now stuck in Stat 110 at USC and I want to shoot myself every time I go and sit in that class because of how mind-numbingly easy it is.</p>
<p>I failed my AP French exam. (I also got a 2.) I placed into the 300-level of French at my college and I’ve made an A on both exams so far (98 and 95) and have an A on all of the quizzes.</p>
<p>In my very short time as a college student, I would say no, they do not correlate.</p>
<p>Well also think of it like this, if you do well on the Exam (4,5) you’ll test into a higher class and be taking a new class.</p>
<p>If you do poorly on the exam (didn’t try, didn’t study well, bad test taker) you won’t test into a higher class and you’ll be studying that material again in college. Inevitably you’ll do better because its your second time through. </p>
<p>I could take AP Latin and fail the exam. But I guarantee you i’ll do better in college Latin 101, because I’ve already learned it al once before.</p>