@10s4life @ucbalumnus
My point was not whether or not it is useful credit at UCs. My point was that it is more than three years of college credit equivalent and I don’t think that so many students have an opportunity to accumulate so much.
I.e., it seems ludicrous and almost impossible that 25% of admitted OOS students would have 36+ semesters of AP+DE coursework and 75% would have 22+.
As an example, (though, this was many years ago):
- I graduated from one of the top public high schools (we had more in AP+DE opportunities than just about any school);
- I was not the top student in most subjects, but I had more AP + DE credit than others in my high school;
- I graduated from one of the top universities for EE in two years (+summers);
- I had 12 AP+DE semesters at the end of my senior year. (I also took two classes at a CC over the summer after HS, but that was not DE. Unlike UCs, at my university, back in those days, it all counted toward my major)
I could be wrong, but that is what seems weird to me. Yes, there are more AP classes offered now than it used to be. However, it still seems like there is too much of a discrepancy. That is why I think that they are counting OOS honors classes in that published statistic.