<p>If my D receives college credit freshman year for her IB Hls, will these credits transfer with her to another university sophomore or junior year?
Anyone have any experience with this?
Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>It depends on the AP credit policy of the school she's transferring to. If the school she's transferring to grants credit for AP, she'll get credit for them. However, the credits won't transfer from the first school, you'll have to call the College Board and order the score reporting service again ($20 bucks or something.) That's how I had to do it when I transferred this year and my new school gave me credit for the APs as soon as they got the score report from the college board.</p>
<p>Some schools will accept AP credits. Some will not accept the credits themselves, but they will let good scores (3, 4, or 5 depending on the college's policy) get you out of lower division equivelant classes. Some schools won't accept the credit or let you get out of intro level classes. It all depends.</p>
<p>Funny thing is, that some of the schools that won't accept the credits are the schools that most expect to see student applications chock full of AP classes. I guess they look at APs as advanced high school, really.</p>
<p>As stated above, it's not a matter of transferring... it's a matter of the policy of the individual school.</p>
<p>If School A gives credit for AP Whatever with an AP test score of 3, but School B requires a test score of 4... that will be the determining factor. It could also go the other way.</p>
<p>You may or may not have to pay for a score report from CB. In my S's case, the new school accepted a copy of the score report that he already had in his own files.</p>
<p>You say that your daughter is anticipating getting credit for IB HL courses, not AP courses. That's an important point.</p>
<p>Colleges' credit policies for IB are sometimes different from those for AP, and they sometimes allow less credit for IB than for AP. </p>
<p>If you think that there is a serious likelihood that your daughter will want to transfer at some point in her college career, she may want to take as many AP tests as possible in her IB subjects, in addition to the IB tests. It's possible that some colleges that won't give her credit for her IB score might give her credit for her AP score. </p>
<p>I'm not suggesting actually studying for the AP tests -- just taking them after the IB courses and seeing what happens. </p>
<p>Sometimes, what happens will be very good. For example, my daughter got a 6 on the IB HL English exam, which got her absolutely nothing in terms of credit or advanced placement at her college. But she also took the AP English Language exam with no preparation, got a 5 on it without particularly trying, and her college gave her 3 credits and allowed her to place out of half the freshman writing requirement. Yet the AP English Language exam is MUCH easier than the IB HL English exam. Go figure.</p>