<p>here's the scenario: you know where you're going for college, and that college doesn't accept any AP subjects that you are taking for credit/placement, besides 2</p>
<p>do you only take the 2 AP exams to get credit/higher placement?</p>
<p>or do you take all of them?</p>
<p>advice from college freshmen is especially welcome :D</p>
<p>Well, I don’t have that option b/c all of my AP classes REQUIRE you to take the exam. But I guess it’s really up to you–bragging rights if you get more 5’s =)</p>
<p>bragging rights cost money :(</p>
<p>If you don’t think you’ll get a good score, the time commitment is too much, or the money is too much, fell free to skip out on the exams. (Though, if you can’t get good scores or commit the time, you probably shouldn’t have signed up for such an intense schedule anyway.) Unless you’re taking a gap year and reapplying next year, there’s no value to AP exams in the admissions/not getting your accept rescinded process. Take what you need for credit.</p>
<p>Keep in mind, however, that some schools require you to take the AP exam. At mine, for example, if you don’t take it, the weight on your GPA and the AP level on your transcript are taken off. If that’s the case, that will not look good to the college you’ve committed you, since it’ll appear you’ve dropped to a less rigorous courseload. Check your school’s requirements.</p>
<p>“Keep in mind, however, that some schools require you to take the AP exam. At mine, for example, if you don’t take it, the weight on your GPA and the AP level on your transcript are taken off.”</p>
<p>^that would be horrible. what if I don’t feel like paying the money for those AP exams? what’s the point of making students take the AP exams if they may not even get credit for it? :(</p>
<p>Well, I’m a parent of a senior who is in the top 3% of his senior class(700 students), has been accepted to all the colleges he applied to and he’s received some really nice scholarships. I checked and our high school still gives you a .5 added to AP grades whether or not you take the exam.
He’s already benefitted from having a rigorous schedule, with regard to applying to colleges. He’ll take the AP Spanish and AP physics C, but NOT the AP calc BC. He’s not going into math and even if he did, he’d want to take the comparable calc BC college course if he changed his mind. Georgia Tech preview day gave us some wonderful student feedback. Virtually every student didn’t take the AP exams to exempt courses. Rather, they used their high school AP courses as refreshers. One student who didn’t, regretted it.</p>
<p>My son will have benefitted from all the AP he’s taken, possibly exempt Spanish, US history and physics B from last year. This way, we don’t waste $86 on calc BC and he only has to study for two AP exams in his senior year. He won’t have the additional stress for something that gives him no advantage. (he already has full tuition offer, computer allowance, travel stipend, plus another nice departmental scholarship from the school he’s most likely to attend)
It seemed like our high school just assumed every student should take every exam and they went on about all the credits a student could use to exempt courses in college. (as a way to get more students to take AP courses) One size doesn’t fit all, I guess you could say.</p>
<p>“here’s the scenario: you know where you’re going for college, and that college doesn’t accept any AP subjects that you are taking for credit/placement, besides 2”</p>
<p>Take the exams the college will give placement/credit for.</p>
<p>Skip the other exams unless your HS requires you to take them.</p>
<p>thanks for the advice people
i wanted to make sure i wouldn’t miss out on any opportunities by not taking some</p>