<p>we only did 3 labs so far. but we are behind from last year because if all the snow days. where are you guys learning now.</p>
<p>You’re actually lucky to have lab experience. For me, the lack of lab experience almost screwed me in the FR lab question last year. </p>
<p>The reason for the lack of labs was because my school’s AP Chem supposed to be three terms (block schedule), but the budget crisis in CA affected my school and AP Chem last year for me was two terms and it still is now. As a result, the teacher had to try to fit all the material of AP Chem into 18 weeks of the school year. I thought the class could finish and at least do like 5-7 labs, but the class, filled with slow students who chose to take the class to impress college, was going in a slow pace and only finished up to equilibrium.</p>
<p>^^We’re on chapter 14/15 in Zumdahl’s. I think it’s on Acids/Bases? I don’t know. I have a test tomorrow and I haven’t studied…</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it. I’ve found that the regular chem class pretty much touched upon most of the lab techniques we use in AP Chem.</p>
<p>We’ve done 12 labs in my AP chem class so far.</p>
<p>My teacher stressed about the snow days too.Right now, we are on thermo. We’ll have a quiz on solubility equilibrium and thermo the friday when we get back from spring break.</p>
<p>After that, we have only one more unit left: redox.</p>
<p>My sister got a 5 on the AP chem test and would have had to go into orgo if she had wanted to continue chem at college.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of a college asking for your notebook for chem credit. fairy, do you know what schools ask that? I’m curious to see how they justify not just taking the AP credit…</p>
<p>I’ve heard my regular and AP Chem teacher (as well as some CC members) talk about keeping your lab book for college credit. My chem teacher just says that “you will have to wrangle credit from top schools, and this lab book is your ticket. SO WRITE EM UP AND GET EM IN TO ME!”</p>
<p>I’ll try asking him tomorrow.</p>
<p>Let me know :). I’ve never heard of it before so I’m just really curious.</p>
<p>I don’t have any funky chem stories considering I haven’t taken it yet, but one of my friends entered Knox College last fall as a freshman. Because of all her AP credits, she became a sophomore and is only going through 3 years of college, effectively saving $50,000+. Not sure if she’s on scholarship or aid, but you get my gist.</p>
<p>^ You can do that too, unless you’re in a credit-intensive major. Realistically, if I only double majored, I could graduate in two years (so summer of next year). </p>
<p>The other downside is that you pay more as a junior/senior than as a freshman/sophomore. So I’m paying junior rates as a first year >.<</p>
<p>my Physics teacher told me that Physics C Mechanics and E&M will get you 10 credits at virtually any college in the country</p>
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Both my physics and chem teachers told us we needed to keep binders. However, Northwestern didn’t ask for my sister’s when they gave her credit for her 5 on chem.</p>
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That doesn’t really make that much sense, since credit systems vary hugely from school to school.</p>
<p>Mill, I know a lot of teachers say that but then again they also think their classes are a lot more academically meaningful than they are. That’s why I ask of any colleges that require notebooks. It seems unlikely for a number of reasons. First is that logistically, going through hundreds of lab notebooks is not possible or necessary.</p>
<p>Am I the only one who wants to use AP scores to be able to take higher level classes freshman year?</p>
<p>^^^Actually, colleges give more credit for science classes. Humanities classes, like languages and history, accept lower scores, but they give less credit. Math and science classes require higher scores but give more credit. Some even give credit on a leveled scale (i.e. a 4 on Calc AB gets 3 credits, a 5 on AB or 3-4 on BC gets 4 credits, and a 5 on BC gets 6). But I agree with you regarding the physics, I know that one school gives 8 credits for Physics B but only 4 for the C tests (that’s why I’m taking Physics B next year). I know that you could take both C tests and get the same 8 credits, but you have to go through so much extra work.</p>
<p>That makes no sense that they wouldn’t look at your test scores from junior year. I’ve been told by my college counselors to spread out your APs so that you’ll have AP scores on your transcript for admissions officers to see.</p>
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<p>Colleges do lots of things that don’t make sense. This is one of them.</p>
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My chem teacher isn’t like that, and my phys teacher likely does the binder more because he always has (he’s like 70 something). I tried googling to find out more, but I didn’t really know what to search.</p>
<p>AP scores go on your transcript? Never heard of that. You can always self-report scores, but I don’t know of any who require the official scores sent to them with admissions.</p>
<p>Fairy said she would ask about chem. I hope she found out :).</p>
<p>Navy, that statement about humanities vs math is completly generalized and not entirely true. Languages, at decent colleges, will generally only accept 4s and 5s (occasionally 3s but for fewer credit) and you generally get up to 4 semesters worth of credit. That is a LOT of credits.</p>
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romani, I asked my teacher today and after listening to his entire college chem life story, he finally filled me in. </p>
<p>Apparently, getting a 5 on your AP test will place you out of Intro Chem. However, there is also a lab portion that a lot of colleges require some sort of “proof” in order for them to give you credit. You can either just suck it up and take the lab portion, do a few required labs that the university tells you to do, or show them your high school AP Chem notebook.</p>
<p>He said that it varies from college to college, but most top universities will not give out full credit freely and it is always better to play it safe and have a lab book ready.</p>