live4football07

I'm going into the E-School next year, and today I got the forms to sign up for the AP's I want to take in May. I'm taking the AP Spanish class that my school offers, but I was wondering if it was at all necessary to take the AP test. I know the E-School doesn't have a language requirement, so would getting a 4 or 5 on this AP test help me out in any way at all? Would I simply be wasting my time and money, or would a good score on this test help me in any way?

Protean

if you get the necessary score it can get you credit which is always nice. It won't directly satisfy any requirements but will fill an elective credit.

Dean J

Go to the UVA website and type "AP credit" into the search box (be sure to change to search option to the website, not the directory). When you see the list of credit offered for those exams, you might sign yourself up for quite a few.

Remember that registration priority is based on credit to give upperclasses some seniority. With AP/IB credit, you could raise yourself above your classmates in the future.

Just be aware that many students bring AP/IB credit with them, so don't expect to rocket ahead of everyone if you take just a few AP exams.

coronax2

At the Echols' info session last year, the dean who spoke said that it's important for students to have four semesters of foreign language credit on their transcript if they are planning to apply to grad school. Would testing out of the requirement on the foreign language placement exam or AP credit be sufficient?

hazelorb

That has nothing to do with the E-school? CLAS has different requirements... Echols are in CLAS.

But for CLAS you have to either take 4 semesters of a language or place out with AP credits - unless you're Echols, where you have no requirements. Grad schools like foreign language so it was just a note of "even though you don't have to take a foreign language, if you want to go to grad school, well, you do have to take it for that."

Dramageek164

If it's not a hard financial hit, just take the test. You can decide what to do with it if you get the necessary score.

BGjeez

"even though you don't have to take a foreign language, if you want to go to grad school, well, you do have to take it for that."

Oh, man, really? So I have to continue with a language even if I don't want to.

hazelorb

yea i have a friend who's echols and also a science scholar. so technically she doesn't have a lang req. but any grad school has a req for lang (she's doing math, which limits her options even more to french/german/russian probably), so she still has to fit it in to her schedule.

BGjeez

Well, I am planing on majoring in Business, so I am not sure if I'll get a job right away and get my MBA later or if I'll cotinue with graduate school immedeately. What do most students do?

To the OP....the AP Spanish exams looks hard...it really does. I will be taking it as well.

live4football07

Yea it does and that's the problem. My spanish teacher and class and pretty much the entire spanish department at my school is horrendous. I'd love to take it actually, I just don't want to get a 2 or 3 on it, which at this point seems entirely possible. Would having a score that bad on my transcript actually hurt me? And again I don't want to take studying time away from the AP's that I know I can get a 5 if I try. This sucks.

hazelorb

you can hide bad scores. come on now. you should know that by now.