iamtooperfect

Will the AP Stats test count for any credit at Stanford? I checked Stanford's AP credit policy, and AP stats is not included. Does this mean I could at least receive elective credits for AP Statistics if I get a 5 on the test? Or will Stanford give no credit at all for it? Honestly, tomorrow is my AP Stats test and I am not ready at all for it. I shall just prepare to fail if Stanford will give me no credit.

im_blue

Nope, no credit at all. Stanford only gives credit for the exams listed. Go ahead and fail away!

iamtooperfect

lol ok thanks. i feel much better now! i cannot wait to fail! well i hope i pass though. i dont want to upset my teacher and ruin her record

nngmm

just don't take it - why waste your money?

im_blue

Many high schools require you to take the AP exam if you sign up for the course, because they figure that way only motivated students would sign up. OTOH, this results in lots of seniors sitting around doodling in their free response booklets.

tomtom6

And pulling down the mean, which is nonresistant to outliers. How's that for some statistical inference .

mercruz

pretty much...

Princess'Dad

Stanford is thinking about accepting NO APs in the future (as is Harvard and Yale)

tokenadult

Source for this? (Regarding any of those three colleges, who says so?)

im_blue

I wouldn't be surprised if this were the case for Stanford, since they've really been killing off AP credit steadily every year. I remember just 5 years ago, they offered AP credit for nearly every exam (including Biology, English, History, Economics, etc), but now it's down to just Calculus, Chemistry, Physics, and the languages.

As far as I know, Caltech has never accepted AP credit, so maybe Stanford is trying to go in their direction.

Princess'Dad

There are ongoing discussions that (eg) an AP in English in high school is not the same as the discussion of English in college. The fight is with the academics vs the admissions office. Because of this, several prep schools are starting to think of offering the Intern'l Bac instead of APs.
The refs are in the college academic mags as well as their newsletters and other journals. You should fine easy googles.

tokenadult

In other words this is not at all an announced policy of Stanford as yet, but just "thinking about," as you said.

Princess'Dad

As noted, they are counting less and less every year - as are the other Ivy's. Unfortunately, APs are presently so engrained in the admission process. They are several steps ahead of "thinking about it", but not yet an "announced policy".

As I suggested, you should research it.

tokenadult

I am currently very familiar with the situation at the Stanford University EPGY Online High School, which I think is the only accredited high school in the world which has active Stanford faculty members teaching classes to high school students for their regular school year high school subjects. Several of the courses taught by the Stanford faculty members have AP designation and thus are taught more or less with an eye on the AP syllabus. It may or may not be that Stanford offers credit toward graduation (as contrasted with placement into desired courses, or generalized advanced standing) for this or that AP course, but college policies on those issues are not a statement that AP courses are not valuable for high school students to take. The college admission counselor of the EPGY Online High School is a former admission officer at Stanford and certainly doesn't discourage current students from taking AP tests.

nngmm

I am sure that AP tests are invaluable for homeschoolers, regardless of the credit awarded by the college.