<p>Is it worth taking the exams if the college you will attend will not accept AP credit? I guess you still can get awards like AP Scholar with Distinction or higher level, but not sure if it is worth the time/effort. </p>
<p>If you transfer Sophomore year of college, do they count AP exams when you are a sophomore if the college would have counted it when you were a freshman?</p>
<p>Colleges will look out for your senior schedule and hope you are still challenging yourself. But sure, APs won’t matter as much. But did you take APs just to get into college? If so, you’re not oriented very well.</p>
<p>Well, you will not be able to get AP awards senior year because all the AP tests you take in senior year are obviously way past the time you submit your college app.</p>
<p>yeah you should take them. It would also be bad if you take a bunch of APs jr year and then take none in senior. It makes you look like a slacker imo</p>
<p>There are like three other threads discussing this exact same thing. You might want to read 'em. :)</p>
<p>OP didn’t sound like a slacker to me…</p>
<p>Definitely keep taking the AP classes. The AP exams themselves are tricky…I’m taking five exams this year (including the 2d portfolio) mostly because I put on my applications that I was going to take them and I thought it might look bad if I got lazy and decided not to. However, they’re fairly expensive tests, especially if your school doesn’t pay for them and you aren’t eligible for reduced prices.</p>
<p>If you aren’t concerned with the AP awards and such, and you ARE concerned with expense, I would just pick a few tests to take. For example, if you had my schedule of AP classes, Calc BC, US Gov, Eng Lit, Macro, and AP2D, take stock of how you’re doing in each class, which ones you really get the material for. Then take the two or three exams that you think you could do best at. (if you take one of the art ones, you may as well submit the portfolio since you’ll have already made all the pieces through the class).</p>
<p>Of course, by the time you have to register for exams, you may not know yet what college you’re going to go to. Depending on how many different colleges you applied to, you may or may not end up at one that accepts AP credit. Also, some high schools only weight your grade if you take the AP test. Food for thought…</p>
<p>I’ll probably take a few…already AP Scholar w/Distinction. Not slacking but missing some due to death in family, so may not take them all. Some high schools give no weight to the AP exam, just what you do in the class. It is too bad that some top colleges don’t give credit either, but I can see where they may want you to take their own physics class etc. Some may use the math just for placement, but will likely take math AP.</p>
<p>APs show course rigor, which is what colleges want to see. If you are getting good grades in AP classes, you have a lot of options open to you in colleges. Match that with a great ACT or SAT and you are set.</p>