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<p>This is sometimes the cause of some serious GPA killing–taking a higher level class at the college level than you’re ready to handle. I went to a roundtable at Rice where a professor was asked about using AP credits to accelerate through science or math. He said that he’d rather have a student take the lower level class “and really learn it.” The problem with taking a higher level class is that the rest of the class is already acclimated to the college milieu and the pace of classes and are ready to hit the ground running as soon as the semester starts. Freshmen are often left in the starting blocks and it takes them a while to catch up.</p>