<p>And if you had enough, was it weird starting off a new school as a sophomore?</p>
<p>I had 18 credits coming in, which is a little over a semester’s worth of credits. I didn’t have to take the intro composition, lit, and history classes so it worked out well for me.</p>
<p>It also allows me to graduate a semester early if I want to.</p>
<p>I didn’t I ought to check up and see if it’s too late to do this.</p>
<p>Couldn’t use them at all - 14 units. The UC I am at will not let you use AP credits for any GE electives, just extra electives. The major I am in has required classes for the total number of units, so I have no need for any additional electives.</p>
<p>My D had alot of AP course credit ,but she only got 1 semester of Freshman English waived .Some schools don’t really care about AP credits ! She is at Harvard.</p>
<p>I went in with 28 credits, counting APs and SUPA courses. Starting off as a sophomore wasn’t weird at all. I don’t think people really give two ****s about your “title” (i.e. freshman, sophomore, junior, senior) in college. That seems more like a petty HS thing.</p>
<p>I went in with 18 credits. I wound up taking intro to psych though which I specifically did not need to take…I’m dumb. So far it hasn’t been that helpful but you never know. No one even knows if you’re a sophomore or whatever. I have sophomore standing but I consider myself a freshman and that’s how it works for everyone else at my school.</p>
<p>I went in with well over 30 credits. Got me out of all but one university core class. I started as a sophomore and am now a senior my second year in, which is nice because I get to take whatever upper level classes I want. Also, it’s allowing me to get a bs and a ba in 4 years (there’s a long explanation for why I’m doing that).</p>
<p>It also got me out of a lot of dumb pre-req courses, giving me a LOT of flexibility from my first semester.</p>
<p>39 credits (i failed like 4 ap tests senior year qq) and used like half of them so far
absolutely necessary to use for me, since i’m extreme undecided and the intro freshman courses would be painfully easy, wasting my tuition…
i retook one class because my teacher in high school was bad, but everything else i skipped because my teachers were good
it didn’t feel weird because the sophomore courses here are made up of like >80% freshman anyways</p>
<p>before coming to college, i thought ap credit would be near useless but i found out it’s extremely helpful. it gives you an incredibly amount of flexibility in your courseload choice. perfect for people like me who very likely will change majors at least twice. i can explore here and there and still know i’ll graduate in 4 years. also probably almost necessary for certain masochistic academic plan combinations (bioE/premed)</p>
<p>I went in with 21 credits. It exempted me from one class and covered several GER classes that I’m required to take. So, yes, very useful for my school.</p>
<p>Both of my sons went into college with 45 AP credits. </p>
<p>Son#1 could have easily graduated after 2 1/2 years. We had him stay all 4 (graduating this May and off to grad school). He had the time to have 2 majors and 1 minor and do study abroad. He did take some 400 level classes very early on. </p>
<p>Son #2 is returning to school this week with 110 credits and he is just starting the second semester sophomore year. (He took 4 online classes last summer for required courses, history and English, that were required but not fit into his schedule. Like son #1 we are already getting graduation info and will get it every year. Due to his tough double engineering major, he will not graduate early and may stay an extra semester. Taking 19 credits this semester and has taken 18 or so each other.</p>
<p>Neither son has felt or feels they are anything but what they correlate to by years at school, not by credits.
Both have had the opportunity to register earlier and pick housing sooner than their peers.</p>
<p>My college doesn’t accept AP credits because the material covered in AP classes only makes up the first quarter or so of an intro course.</p>
<p>zchryevns- Not sure that what you posted is really the case. More realistically, the school wants you to take the course or credits in college. Stay 4 years, they get 4 years tuition!</p>
<p>I used it for Calculus I and Calculus II</p>
<p>Oh- and also- only sophomores and above can have cars on campus at my U. Since I was listed as a sophomore, I was able to have a car as soon as I started. This was nice because I work 3 jobs- all off-campus and that wouldn’t have been possible without my car.</p>
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Even though they don’t work for General Ed, they can help satisfy requirements for your major if you took an AP class that duplicates a class your major requires. And the 14 units will help you in unit standing (frosh, soph, etc) which determines your priority for registration.</p>
<p>What if you have enough credits to be a sophomore? Would you be housed with freshmen?</p>
<p>I only took two APs and they both were usable (for History and English). It helped me out a lot.</p>
<p>Used my APs to get me out of my science with a lab requirement (APES, the class that keeps on giving) and add more flexibility to my schedules (I can drop down to 4 classes for a couple of semesters if I need to).</p>
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<p>Having taken AP and intro courses, I can assure you that’s not the case.</p>