<p>It seems like paying 84 dollars for a test that isnt saving me any money is kind of a waste. Is there any benefit to AP tests other than garnering enough credits to graduate early?</p>
<p>...Are you kidding? </p>
<p>Graduating early saves you up to $50,000 bucks. AP's are incredibly cheap in terms of cost - you seriously have to have no sense of money and be a thrifty person to think paying $84 per exam is anything but a bargain for you when you save thousands upon thousands of dollars. If you go to a school that doesn't accept them, your fault. It's just like throwing out a bag of money - you're the idiot, not the person who gave you the money</p>
<p>Excuse me future lawyer but some people don't use their AP credits even if their school allows it. And some really really good schools don't take APs for credit and they're good colleges to go to. </p>
<p>Jesernio, you can place out of some certain classes so trust me that helps a lot!!!! Like if you dont' like some class you can take it in HS and not take it in college. And APs give you information about a variety of subjects so that's good too.</p>
<p>Why wouldn't you use your AP credit if your school allows it?</p>
<p>If you wanna take the class again to learn the material better or for an easy A. Or in some cases if there's no point in using it. For example, I will most likely be going into engineering. I won't use my credits for humanities cuz then I can't take many humanities classes and I want to take a lot of them.</p>
<p>If you're going to college just to take 'easy a' classes, you deserve whatever you get coming to you. You might as well set your tuition money on fire.</p>
<p>The workload/critical thinking skills required for some AP classes (depends on how it is taught at your school) will help you with college classes, hopefully. The tests themselves MIGHT help- you could get out of requirements and begin classes you enjoy as soon as possible, if your school allows you to do that. If your school doesn't accept the credits, then I would say that the classes are worthwhile but taking the test wouldn't be (unless the AP classes at your school are all memorization geared towards the test, not any thinking/writing/useful skills- at which point the class would be useless too).</p>
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<p>You can use your humanities credits to place out of low-level humanities classes so you can take the generally more interesting ones. For example, I went in with AP US and Euro credit, so I was able to bypass the huge lecture classes and take all of my humanities electives from the upper-level courses which usually had around 15 students and were much more interesting.</p>
<p>Not to mention there's nothing from stopping you from taking more than the minimum number of classes for a requirement.</p>
<p>Also, enjoy your "easy" A in freshman year calc and bio, haha.</p>
<p>Thanks for your responses. Futurelawyer, i don't think you're justified in calling me an idiot or saying I should burn my tuition money. I meant are there tangible benefits to AP exams that are not graduating early. College is supposed to be the best 4 years of my life, why would I want to graduate early? Also, are freshman calc and bio really that difficult? I will be taking both AP exams this may, so is it worth it to test out of those? My curriculum at college is supposedly for a freshman bio major Gen Bio 1/lab, Gen Chem 1/Lab, English, Core Humanities Seminar, and Language. Is it just me or does that seem overwhlemin?</p>
<p>bumppppp??</p>
<p>RacinReaver said it best -- take the credits to place out of the intro classes and join in on smaller, more interesting classes. Take more specific courses, take that seminar with the really interesting professor, just use them to have fun. </p>
<p>Or, use the credits, free up some time, and study abroad. Or go in with the satisfaction of knowing that you could always drop down to the minimum hours per semester, and not have to worry about summer school or playing catch-up later on.</p>
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<p>I went into college with around a year's worth of AP credit. I wound up graduating a semester early since I ran out of classes I was interested in taking (had something like 4 or 5 classes over the requirement for technical electives within my field at that point, too). I stayed in the city and worked for one of my professors for the next nine months until I started grad school. So, even though I had graduated, I was earning money, working a more regular day, and still got to hang out with all of my college buddies.</p>