<p>Okay, okay, I’m back, haha.</p>
<p>A suggestion I have is to check with the Academy and see which AP classes they do accept credit from. The list of classes they do this for is very limited and I don’t know them off the top of my head.</p>
<p>Getting a few classes out of the way with won’t hurt at all. There are a ton of classes you’ll still need to take here, so don’t expect that getting AP credit will get you way ahead of your classmates and cut down drastically on the number of credits you’ll take each semester. There is a certain number of resident semester hours each cadet needs to have, minimum credits that need to be taken each semester, and only certain classes you can get credit for, as I said.</p>
<p>Not taking AP tests and/or getting high enough scores on them won’t kill you at the Academy, but even getting one or two out of the way will help a little.</p>
<p>Even taking AP or any sort of advanced classes in high school will help you at the Academy, since you’ve already been exposed to certain materials before going there. Sometimes things are easier to understand the second time around.</p>
<p>Also keep in mind that there will be placement tests during BCT that can allow you to validate some classes.</p>
<p>I took 7 AP classes in high school and didn’t take any of the tests. In retrospect, I probably should have, but the $76 apiece seemed like too much at the time. None of the credits I took at the year of community college before I went to the Academy tranferred either. My first year academically didn’t go so well, but I don’t attribute any of it to not coming in with tranfer/validation credits; instead it was due to getting used to the whole “Academy experince.” (I did validate into Calc 3 from the placement test I took in BCT. On a side note, if you’re a non-technical major, you don’t need to take any math beyond Calc 2, with the exception of statistics.)</p>