How important are AP credits?

Applying to College
1

<p>How important are AP credits? </p>

<p>Would you attend a university which doesn't award you credits for AP?</p>

<p>Thank you.</p>

2

<p>If AP classes are offered at your school, you need to take some for college admissions, they want you to challenge yourself. </p>

<p>Yes.</p>

3

<p>So you don’t mind taking classes which you’ve already taken at high school?</p>

4

<p>Schools that do not accept AP credit may have their own placement tests and procedures for various subjects so that you do not needlessly repeat stuff that you already learned.</p>

5

<p>Colleges that require students to take basic courses in subjects where the students have AP credits usually have good reasons for doing so; and those courses are generally not just repeats of the same material covered in high school AP classes, although there is undoubtedly going to be some overlap. </p>

<p>AP courses tend to be cram courses; at good colleges, many basic level courses teach an inquiry-based approach not approached in high school AP classes, and the college considers mastering that approach to be an important part of education.</p>