<p>Does anyone know?? it can either be online or sleep-away</p>
<p>CTY online, APEX, and KAPLAN all have good online AP courses you can use. </p>
<p>You can also consider going to a UC over the summer or your local community college for just college level courses. That way you get the distinction without the need for taking an exam to prove you did college level work.</p>
<p>Does that mean that you also get the credit for AP right away? </p>
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<p>potentenum
My Experiences Self-Studying</p>
<p>Usually there aren't AP classes over the summer unless it is a college class. You have to wait like 9 months or so until May to actually take the test.</p>
<p>-- Does that mean that you also get the credit for AP right away? --</p>
<p>You're question is a bit enigmatic. Could you please elucidate for me what you mean by this? Do you mean the credit the college would grant you or what?</p>
<p>The AP exam is given only once (well twice if you count the later may late-testing). Colleges only give credit for the scores on the test (in terms of credit, they don't care about your grade in that class or if you even took a class). Colleges have posted policies of credit on their websites. Also, you only get credit for an AP exam if you are accepted and enroll a college offering credit. </p>
<p>Here's an example: I took AP Art History as a freshmen and made a 3 :(. The local community college (that I'm doing dual enrollment with) will accept credit for that grade. Most of my state colleges will grant the same 6 credit hours. I could accept credit for the test at both my community college the state school (if I decide to go their). However, if I go to upper tier schools I would get no credit. But I can't get credit at a school I'm not accepted and enrolled in.</p>
<p>-- The AP exam is given only once (well twice if you count the later may late-testing). Colleges only give credit for the scores on the test (in terms of credit, they don't care about your grade in that class or if you even took a class). Colleges have posted policies of credit on their websites. Also, you only get credit for an AP exam if you are accepted and enroll a college offering credit. --</p>
<p>This is basic info. I am wondering about taking online AP courses to improve my application, not to earn credit. I could care less about getting credit done before college. I just want to prove to colleges that I can handle college level work.</p>
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<p>Sorry for that. Yes I meant whether or not the course will count as credit, but now that I think about it obviously not =P </p>
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<p>potentenum
Self-study NuB blog</p>
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<p>I was answering this question. </p>
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I LOL'ed at this sentence. Word of the day: grandiloquence. </p>
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This is basic info. I am wondering about taking online AP courses to improve my application, not to earn credit. I could care less about getting credit done before college. I just want to prove to colleges that I can handle college level work.
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<p>90% of applicants to schools who care about APs other than for credit are obviously able to handle college level work. The problem is it becomes a battle to stand out. There's a thread on this: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/369861-self-studying-aps-improving-your-app-22.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/369861-self-studying-aps-improving-your-app-22.html</a></p>
<p>Here's APs and admissions in a nutshell:</p>
<p>You are pretty much expected to take the most in your school and do very well in them. Self-studying is very helpful for those whose schools offer no APs. Otherwise, you are expected to take as many APs and/or Post-AP college classes at your school/local cc/university and self-studying is looked upon well and grants you credit that will allow you to start at a higher level or perhaps even get advanced placement.</p>
<p>-- You are pretty much expected to take the most in your school and do very well in them. Self-studying is very helpful for those whose schools offer no APs. Otherwise, you are expected to take as many APs and/or Post-AP college classes at your school/local cc/university and self-studying is looked upon well and grants you credit that will allow you to start at a higher level or perhaps even get advanced placement. --</p>
<p>Yes, I get that, whatever. However, I HAVN'T been taking the most rigorous possible and I don't know how to make that up. My school offers AP's and Honors but very limited amount (6 courses with the honors label and 8 courses with the AP label). Plus, these courses have EXTREMELY strict prerequisites that pretty much make it impossible for one to get into them without planning since before middle school their course curriculum. I was lucky enough to make it into APUSH this year. I will have finished, at my school, only two honors courses and 1 AP course by the end of my junior year, and there are already strict requirements that will bar me from taking courses next year. </p>
<p>So, I cant take the most rigorous at my school no matter what I do. Thus, I need alternatives to make up for this and self studying, taking courses online or taking CC or UC courses seem like the only way I could possibly make up for all this.</p>