<p>So, i'm not sure about this whole AP thing and how it works. May someone tell me what's true? I heard that even if we take AP classes and we pass them, we still gotta take it in college or we get the credit but we don't gain any credit like we just skip it and take the harder courses and have to find something else to fill in to complete the credits that are required for the degreee?
So do we get the credit if we take AP classes? Does it help us graduate faster? or it's just taken for preparation for college?</p>
<p>But i meant do you really get the credit? Like on the college transcript, i’ll say 3 credits received before i start the college? Is it possible to graduate faster with these credits?</p>
<p>You ONLY get college credit if you take and pass the AP exam. The score you need to get the credit is based on the college. Most schools accept 3 or higher but higher profile schools require a 4 or 5.</p>
<p>If you don’t take the ap exam, you get zero credit regardless if you took the ap class or not.</p>
<p>I know but assuming i did passed, does it really help you accumulate college credits faster?</p>
<p>Colleges’ policies aren’t all the same.</p>
<p>Some colleges and universities are very generous with AP credit, and some are stingy. My kid happened to choose a university that’s very generous with AP credits. She has been exempted from a number of distribution requirements and been granted almost a semester’s worth of college credits because of her AP scores. But if she’d gone elsewhere, it might have been a very different story.</p>
<p>If you’re still choosing colleges to apply to, you can investigate individual schools’ policies on AP exams, and you can decide for yourself whether those policies will be a major factor for you in deciding where you want to enroll.</p>
<p>oh. okay thanks. (:</p>
<p>Yes. You get college credits for the AP exams depending on your score and the college you attend. You can graduate sooner in some cases.</p>
<p>It depends on the college.</p>
<p>A sufficiently high score (which in some cases may be a 4 or 5, rather than a 3) on the AP test may get you one or more of the following, depending on the college:</p>
<p>a. Credit units, which can be applied to the minimum number of credit units needed to graduate, which may allow graduating sooner than you otherwise would be able to. They may be erased if you take the college course which overlaps the subject matter of the AP test.</p>
<p>b. Subject credit, indicating fulfillment of some major or breadth requirement needed to graduate. Note, however, that medical schools often do not accept AP tests against pre-med course requirements; if you skip a pre-med course based on an AP test, you likely need to take a more advanced course in the subject area to substitute for it for pre-med purposes.</p>
<p>c. Advanced placement, where you can start in a more advanced course than you would if you did not have a sufficiently high score on the AP test. It would be a good idea to review old final exams of the course to be skipped at your college to check your knowledge against what is expected in the college’s course.</p>
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You may not want to start too many advanced courses at once.</p>
<p>It depends on the college and your score. For example, APUSH is rarely accepted for credit compared to some of the sciences or math classes. My school didn’t accept any of my APs (no matter what the test score). </p>
<p>Also, some schools count APs just for placement (testing out of a basic level class into a higher one) and not for credit. Others dont count them for anything and others may give you credit. You can check on each school’s site.</p>