CSU application help (And application help overall)

Colleges and Universities A-Z California State University - GENERAL
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Hi all,

I am a highschool student, graduating in June, trying to fill out the California State University Application. I have met all the A-G requirements needed. I have also taken numerous APs and a one (summer) semester college level statistics course at a local community college. One the first page of the CSU application, it asks if I am:
A.) A high school student without college credit
B.) A high school student with college credit
C.) A transfer student with less than 30 units of college credit
(and then there are a couple more for transfer students with more than 30 college credits, but don’t have to worry about those.)

Now, my counselor has said that I DO NOT have college credit and if I select choice B, I will be misreporting myself. She says that the admissions office will ask for that after they accept me, which doesn’t make sense to me, after all, one of the reasons I took those APs was to help my application and my chances of admission. Also, when I select choice A, it skips over the page in which you indicate if you have AP credits or not, but if you select choice B, it goes to that page. All of this leads me to believe that I should have college credit.
Here are the CSU definitions:
“Graduating high school senior with no college credit” means you:
Are currently a senior in high school or have graduated from high school AND have not, or will not have earned any college credit - either by taking college courses or earning credit via AP or IB exams.

“Graduating high school senior with college credit” means you:
Are currently a senior in high school and have or will have earned some college credit - either by taking a college course (prior to the end of the summer immediately following high school graduation) or earning credit via AP or IB exams.
–OR–
Have graduated from high school and have earned college credit while in high school BUT HAVE NOT completed any college courses SINCE the summer immediately following high school graduation.

Am I missing something here? It seems obvious that I am option two.

Question two (I know that was a wall of text, but even if you skip that first part because it’s too much, at least read here):
When I’m entering in my honors and AP courses from my transcript, it asks “Course type” where I can indicate if it was a honors, AP, or IB, and then it asks “Credit earned for” where I can select Spring, Fall, or Spring and Fall. Here also, I’ve been told that I should only select spring because that’s when I took the AP test, even though I was enrolled in the AP level course for both semesters. This also doesn’t make sense to me. After all, who could possibly take an AP test in the Fall, let alone in the fall AND the spring? I feel like it’s asking for which semesters I earned the GPA bump (that also corresponds with me needing to indicate when the honors course was taken).

Thanks in advance.

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  1. You are a High school with college credit (includes dual enrolled college classes and AP courses).
  2. If the AP class is a year long, you enter Fall and Spring. If the AP class is a semester, you would enter which semester the AP class was taken such as AP Macroecon and AP Gov which are usually semester classes.
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You’re definitely a student WITH college credit, what did you get on the AP exams, maybe your counselor was thinking about what scores they accept? Also the only AP classes that are not both fall and spring are econ/gov, everything else is a year long, good luck! :slight_smile:

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Did you take the AP courses AND the AP exams or just the AP courses and decide not to take the AP exams? It is my understanding if you skipped the AP exams, then you just add the extra grade points for getting a C- or above (up to 8 semesters worth with no more than 2 points from work in 10th grade) when you calculate your GPA; in other words, no college credit.

edit: oh, I see now that you took the exam in Spring, so it depends on your score.