I know that taking ap exam during college will count nothing towards the credit. But I am thinking of transferring college so for that purpose to show my qualification, can taking exam during the college be helpful in terms of transfer admission ?
There is no reason to take an AP exam after you have started college. Your college transcript will be the most important thing in your transfer application, followed by your high school transcript.
Ap courses are college courses. Same topics, but taught differently.
No.
AP courses are not college courses. They are high school courses that cover material that is roughly equivalent to the material covered in a college course. In order to be awarded college credit or advanced placement for the material learned, the student must take the corresponding AP exam, and receive a score in the range that a particular college/university requires.
A course taken for credit at a college or university is recorded on that college/university transcript. Whether any other college or university would accept that particular course for transfer credit doesn’t matter. The student has earned that credit and will need to provide an official copy of the transcript when asked for one.
I know that college usually won’t take ap credits for transfer but just for resume’s sake, do some people take ap exam at college so that it looks good on their college transfer resume?
@happymomof1,
Thank you for the info, I guess my friend was wrong!
Most(not all) AP courses cover a college course over 2 semesters as opposed to 1. So those AP’s are twice as slow as their college equivalence in terms of pace.