<p>I'm going to take 9 APs this year to add on to 4 I took before. If exactly 11 of them are accepted by my safety college which I will attend next year-- 10 small credits and 1 big credit(an AP language)-- and I plan on applying to another school after a year in college, how will the AP credits be transferred and to what effect?</p>
<p>****Assume that the college I'm applying to after this year in college also accepts these 11 AP credits (that they are all 5's).</p>
<p>I heard that too much credits is bad and could possibly affect financial aid or scholarships or something else.</p>
<p>So, assuming you pass all your AP exams this year, and and 11 of them are accepted, you would start out college with about 33 credits, right? For your first college, you would just be considered a credential sophomore and you would get to skip a bunch of the general ed classes and focus more on your major classes.
What I would do is make sure all your credits transfer to the safety college and get them listed on your transcript. Then, find a transfer equivalency chart for your safety to your second school and see how the credits correspond. If your second college is in the same state, the credits are more likely to transfer over than if they are in separate states.
But if you want your AP classes to count as transfer credit, get them on your safety’s transcript. </p>
<p>I’ve never heard of AP classes affecting financial aid…Are you talking about institutional aid, state aid, or federal aid? </p>
<p>@camover
The steps you listed on how to transfer credits to my dream college are steps I would take once I get into college under the guidance of someone at the college right?</p>
<p>Also, would I then still be able to skip a year?
Assuming that my dream college accepts them all as well then when I apply to it I would be considered a “junior”? </p>
<p>Since you are going to your safety for the first year, yeah, the steps listed are for your safety. Make sure your safety puts AP credit on your transcript.</p>
<p>Assuming you don’t minor in something and your major requires about 120 credits, then you will probably graduate a year early. And assuming your dream college accepts all your AP credits as presented on the safety’s transcript, you would be considered a junior. As long as you have 60-89 credits, which you will if you get another 30 credits your first year of college, then you’re a junior. </p>
<p>If you transfer, it is likely that AP credit will be reevaluated by the new school’s policies. This may result in different credit units and subject credit than at the first school.</p>