<p>After all, you're already in college when you take your AP test, and colleges won't be able to see that you've been self-studying for an AP until you take the test..</p>
<p>That said, this question is specifically about taking the AP Test. Clearly it is a good idea for seniors to take as many AP classes as they can because colleges want senior year classes to be as challenging as possible, but then is it really worth it to take the test in May?</p>
<p>And again, is it worth it to self-study for an AP exam at all?</p>
<p>Well if you take the exam then you don’t have to take that class’s final. Even if you bomb it, I don’t see why you wouldn’t take it… (Unless you really enjoy taking finals?)</p>
<p>if you are asian and cheap like me, you would wnat to save some $$$…
its not related to college entrance byt saves you some extra bucks (assuming you get above a 3)</p>
<p>Uhhh the point of an AP exam is to get college credit, so obviously it’s still worth it lol</p>
<p>check your preferred college’s ap exam exemptions and find out if the exams your set up to take will give credit for them and for what score, adjust your schedule around that. me personally at nc state engineering calc gives credit, but stat doesnt, but I self studied comp sci AB and phys C both parts because all of them give a full class of credit hours. spending 86 bucks on the test is way better than 600+ bucks on the college class</p>
<p>That’s a good point about the colleges. Yeah, I guess in general (from my brief research) colleges accept Math APs for placement into higher math classes, but it sucks that so many top colleges don’t accept the social sciences and humanities APs though…</p>
<p>For some schools, taking the AP test won’t get you any more credit so I know a few kids who didn’t take the Eng. Lit. or Gov’t exams because they wouldn’t be getting any more credit from it. But I know a few other friends who took them anyway just to take them, which you could argue is admirable or foolish. It depends though.</p>
<p>And, yes, self-studying for AP tests senior year is definitely worth it if you don’t have any hard exams on your plate (i.e. Physics, Chemistry, Bio, etc. lol) that would require tons of studying. I self-studied Euro. History and Micro because I really need the college credit and a good bulk of my exams were relatively easy (i.e. none of the tests I just listed above, lol). It’s definitely worth it if you pass, of course.</p>
<p>If you do well (4,5) It’s definitely worth it because you can college credit depending on where you’re going for college. In some cases they won’t accept credit for a course but they can put you in a higher level course or the AP can count towards graduation credits and so you might graduate earlier. Either way it’s a plus, the real question is: Why wouldn’t you take an AP Test?</p>
<p>tan2007 - really? What college are you attending that counts AP Euro as anything? And what do they count it as - fulfilling a distribution requirement, fulfilling a major requirement, or does it allow you to skip any intro classes or anything?</p>
<p>Harambee - Because many colleges don’t accept any sort of credit at all from many APs - either to fulfill distribution requirements or to be able to get into a more advanced class. I looked up the policy’s of two top liberal arts schools: all AP histories, AP Comparative Gov, AP Human Geo, AP Psych, and AP Gov (didn’t look up the science ones…) will not get you out of any classes (AP Psych won’t even get you out of Psych 101!). Theses are the ones that are generally self-studied the most. So I’m pretty sure that I will not self-study AP Gov or AP Psych (as I was considering doing), because it seems that most colleges don’t count those as anything…</p>
<p>Well it’ll save you some stress and some $$ if you don’t take the test but I was just saying. I was using UNC’s AP Credit policy ([UNC</a> Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://admissions.unc.edu/academics/placement.htm]UNC”>http://admissions.unc.edu/academics/placement.htm)) as a frame of reference. It’s understandable though, that some top private schools wouldn’t count some AP classes. There’s some people here on CC who self-study exams 24 hours prior to the test by just reading prep books and they end up getting 4’s and 5’s. If kids start taking “easy” AP’s just to have another AP, I don’t think colleges will see that as worthy enough to get credit for.</p>
<p>Well I’m going to Middlebury College (:D), which is a liberal arts school where AP credits count less than they would at a state university (I live near ASU and have seen their AP credit policies–a lot of people I know from my school will be first or second-year sophomores next year :S). There’s a certain limit on how many AP credits you can apply to a major, and these don’t actually fulfill distribution requirements but if anything I’d be able to skip introductory courses. I don’t really regret taking the AP tests though because I know it’ll still benefit me in the end :)</p>
<p>True. AP will only get you so far.</p>
<p>Yeah I plan on taking an equivalent AP Computer Science AB this summer and will self study/remember for the AP test.</p>
<p>I think it is worth it. I mean you should decide for yourself, I really like taking the tests. They require a lot of studying and are overall a fun experience. </p>
<p>I self studied the AP Physics C (I mean I already knew physics just still needed to study more).</p>
<p>You have to list what Ap tests you will take in common application so colleges still know that you are self studying Ap. </p>
<p>Plus you may earn colleges credits if you do well.</p>
<p>–> Totally worth it.</p>
<p>At my school we have to take the AP exam regardless of whether or not we get credit for it. Which results in a lot of people who won’t get credit regardless of the score failing it, but at least they don’t have to cough up 85 buckeroos.<br>
Unless they were failing the class too, that is.</p>