Do you have to get credit for the AP Scores?

[ucbalumnus]

@cstp28

My D20 will be taking Physics this upcoming year even though she got a 4 on the AP, simply because she doesn’t feel confident in the material. Her teacher didn’t do much after school buildings closed, and if not for her engineer dad tutoring her through the next 2 months, she likely wouldn’t have even attained a 4. It doesn’t make sense to start engineering curriculum in college feeling insecure in knowledge of basic physics.

How confident in your knowledge do you feel?

Rather than guessing placement based on how confident one is*, it would be better for the student to try the college’s old final exams for the course(s) that are allowed to be skipped. That will give real information about how well the student knows the material from the college’s point of view.

*Often, strong students are not that confident, while not-so-strong students are overconfident.