<p>I noticed that on Princeton's AP credit reference table, it says:</p>
<p>English [5] AP 5/EN or ES SAT ST 800, 1 Unit of AP, no equivalent Princeton course replaced</p>
<p>If getting a 5 on English Language or Literature doesn't let you skip a course, does it actually even do anything? Also, what do EN and ES stand for - I'm guessing one is Lang and the other is Lit?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>At Princeton AP credits can get you higher placement if you want, but it doesn’t give you credit for taking a class like at other schools. In subjects like math it makes sense to take them if you want to take a higher level math class right away, for example, but since English classes don’t come in levels like that, the AP score doesn’t do anything. </p>
<p>My senior year I skipped some AP exams that weren’t going to do anything for meplacement-wise at Princeton. They’re expensive!</p>
<p>You can apply for Advanced Standing at Princeton (one or two semesters), depending on the number of AP credits you have.</p>
<p>[AP</a> Credit Overview - Advanced Placement and Advanced Standing](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/pub/ap//]AP”>Advanced Placement Class of 2027 | Office of the Dean of the College)
[AP</a> Credit Reference Table - Advanced Placement and Advanced Standing](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/pub/ap/table/]AP”>Advanced Placement Class of 2027 | Office of the Dean of the College)</p>
<p>So if this is something you are interested in, a 5 on the English AP will give you one unit of AP credit towards Advanced Standing.</p>
<p>I’d recommend that you not be in any rush to exit Princeton - unless there are unusual circumstances. Savor all four years there - the real world will be there soon enough.</p>
<p>A few AP tests might be useful at Princeton. For example, getting a 5 in the french AP language exam gets you out of the language requirement. At least before they changed the lab requirement, having multiple AP science credits let you only take one lab instead of two at princeton. BC calc might possibly be useful if your major has a calc requirement. But anything besides language, math, and science is going to be completely useless unless you want advanced standing.</p>
<p>Also, advanced standing can be useful even if you don’t want to graduate early - you can declare junior standing as a sophomore, use it to get better course selection times, join a department early, get better room draw, etc, and then spend two years as a junior.</p>