<p>how many of you accepted people are planning on taking ur AP tests? im taking a number of APs that would do nothing for princeton....whats the point in forking over $82 bucks when it wont do anything =(</p>
<p>WOW. At your school your required to pay for your AP test? At my school the school pays for them all.</p>
<p>we have to pay for ours</p>
<p>I have to pay for mine too: total bogus</p>
<p>Our school used to pay for ours (my freshman year), but due to budget cuts it's gone up every year, and now we have to pay the whole thing.</p>
<p>yea i would have to pay like 500+ bucks to take all my exams. are any of u thinking about not taking certain tests? the consequences at my school is like an INSANELY hard final but i dun really care cuz ill be graduating =D</p>
<p>My school will cover the cost of exams for classes I take (we have a good selection), but I have to pay for any tests I may want to independent study.</p>
<p>Right now I'm thinking about doing Environmental Science independent study. I've had 2 honors courses in Biology and am in AP Chem now, so I have the science background. I did the multiple choice questions in the pdf course guide online and got most of them right (I actually did better on this than on the Chemistry ones). I'm just wondering why the pass rate sucks so bad nationally...? (Mean score: 2.4, with 8.8% 5's?)</p>
<p>At my school, if you take an AP class, you have to take the test and you have to pay for your own exams. Thus, I have to take (and pay for) 5 AP exams this year that will essentially do nothing for me next year.</p>
<p>Taking the AP class at my school implies that you will take the AP test at the end of the year. There aren't any final exams in any of the AP classes so the AP test acts as one--even though the teacher won't ever know the grade if you choose not to tell him or her; kind of bizarre logic.</p>
<p>So I'm required to take the AP Calc AB, the AP English Literature, and the AP English Language, even though I was already accepted to college. I talked to my AP Lit teacher about how pointless it is for me to pay for these tests when they won't affect anything, so he said that I don't have to take the AP Lit if I didn't want to since both the Lit and Lang tests are for his class. That's still $164 for nothing... my mom thinks it's beneficial though. Whatever. Just another couple of grades to add to a list that's now completely useless.</p>
<p>Forgot to add: I have not been accepted to Princeton. I'm only a junior, but will be applying ED in the fall.</p>
<p>Are you sure the teacher never knows the grade, sprez? At our school, the teachers get the results of the whole class during the summer.</p>
<p>Both of my teachers said that they get like a list of the grades for the class, but not who specifically got what grade. They don't know unless the student chooses to tell them. At any rate, it would be too late in the grading process to base anything on the AP test results, making it completely and utterly worthless for students going to colleges that don't offer credits for a 4 or 5.</p>
<p>My school makes us take the test, as well. We have to pay $75 or so and are 'forced' to score a 4 or 5 because they want to raise their averages. How much better than a 4.6 do they really want some classes to average?? But, I'm glad MultiVCalc does not have an AP test because THAT would suck (same with LinAlg, but to a lesser degree). Imagine that test w/o a calculator...</p>
<p>My school pays about $10, I pay about $72. Not too fair if you ask me. If I get in, I won't take Government and Politics because there's no point to it if I don't receive any credit.</p>
<p>I have to pay full cost for my AP tests, and I don't get credit for any of them. So now I have to petition to the principal if I don't want to take them and I also lose my "weighting". Whatever, I could get some good stuff for the $240 I'd have to pay for pointless exams.</p>
<p>Like...half a sweater?</p>
<p>yeah, at about $87 a test, I probably won't take most of them...</p>
<p>hahaha i could get a full sweater off the sale rack.</p>
<p>haha lol, my parents spent 1192 dollars last year on ap exam fees... was it worth it ... definetly I set a challenge for myself and was able to achieve it ... that being said I did take lots of easy aps such as environ sci... psych.. human geography... but I also took all the major ones (except for physics, took that in college) </p>
<p>but yeah... if you know what college you're going to when you register for the ap's i would just take the ones that give credit for it although many teachers and profs have told me that you can petition the individual college to get credit for the class</p>
<p>princeton doesn't even recognize ap politics, for example. and there is no benefit to taking ap english because it doesnt waive any classes...</p>