For those of you who have taken AP World History & AP Economics ...

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<p>Do any any Ivies grant credit or acceleration for AP World History? I looked online at AP courses that Harvard gives & does not give credit for, but World History wasn't even on there .. I'm assuming that they don't give credit then?</p>

<p>Also for those of you who have received a 5 on AP Macro and microeconomics, what level of math were you taking concurrently? Is it an easy AP to self-study if you are taking AP Calc AB with it?</p>

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<p>AP calc AB is not easy neither is AP World History and AP economics. In theory it would not be hard to self study. (i took AP world history had a good teacher and i got a 4) and in econ i had a horrible teacher pretty much self studied and got a 3. So yeah not hard but self studying TWO APs is hard and the work will catch up w/ u cause there are other things more important such as SATs and GPA.</p>

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<p>I self-studied world history and US gov't in about a week and a half this year. I didn't do that great on World (probably 3-4) but I found gov't very easy. World is a tough test to prep for because there is sooo much information. I am taking Euro in school this year and I did US last year so that helped a lot with overlap. IMO, from someone who has taken a lot of APs, macroeconomics is the easiest test out there and would be a lot easier to self-study then world.</p>

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<p>World History is probably the 2nd easiest AP test I've taken. There is a lot of stuff covered but it's all general overview history that's ridiculously easy to memorize. I probably could've gone in without even opening a world history text/test-prep book and gotten at least a 4 on it. And the hardest math in econ is slopes, if that. Microecon is the easiest test I've ever taken, and macro is only slightly harder.</p>

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<p>Ok, thanks for the replies. I've tried out some multiple choice questions on CB's AP Central for WH, and I only got 2 wrong out of the 5-10 sample questions there were. I think I'll take AP Econ. Thanks everyone!</p>

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<p>There's really no math skill needed in AP macro besides adding and multiplying...</p>