<p>I was told to take Calc I and Chem my first semester as a freshman. However I got a 5 on AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, and a 4 on AP Calculus.</p>
<p>My major is Electrical Engineering. Would it be a good idea to try and skip these classes using my AP credit, to maybe start in Calculus III?</p>
<p>If you think you actually understand these topics well enough: yes, skip them.
If you don’t, don’t.</p>
<p>I definitely get the material, but if I don’t skip it will I be fine?</p>
<p>If you don’t skip, you’ll just take the same class over again and probably get nothing new out of it.
I don’t recommend taking first-year lecture classes if you can AP out with no consequences. Those are graded on a curve where half the students are intended to fail or barely pass.</p>
<p>Ask your school to give you a placement test. If you place into Calc III it’s really a waste of time and money to repeat I and II.</p>
<p>If you know it, Skip it!</p>
<p>This is completely dependent on the university you are attending. Check with what the school recommends, as well as current students. My son was waffling between two universities. His use of AP credit would have been completely different at each university.</p>
<p>Take the placement exam and talk with your advisor. However, he/she is most likely going to strongly recommend you take Calc 2.</p>
<p>However, as an EE taking Chem? Skip it if you can (and your advisor is likely going to recommend you do!).</p>
<p>Unless chemistry is a prerequisite to other courses that you will take (unlikely for an EE major, but check), do not waste schedule space retaking it if your school allows AP credit to skip it.</p>
<p>For courses that you will need as prerequisites to other courses (e.g. math), try to find the old final exams for the college’s courses that you may be able to skip with your AP credit. Try the final exams to check your knowledge of the material from the college’s point of view, then make your decision as to whether to skip the courses.</p>
<p>I retook some courses from AP my freshman year. Bad idea. Well, taking Calc II was good as my high school class hadn’t actually covered all the content, but the other class I retook was really not worth it. Maybe I got a tiny bit out of it, but nowhere near what I would have gotten from taking a different course. And it wasn’t an easy A, either. Now I regret having had retaken so much, when now there are many classes I want to take and not enough time to take them.</p>