3 on AP WH hurt chances?

bernie12
Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:47:14 +0000

I think the schools mainly want to see that you took rigorous courses and did well in them. They won’t really care about the score, especially if it is technically passing. Your SAT/SATIIs and GPA will speak more than this first AP test. And if most of the other elites are like Emory, they won’t even be able to accept or use AP World History credit anyway (actually, we don’t accept any histories at all unless you are a history major, in which case they may take US history or Euro with some prodding because in College, especially top ones, the intros are broken into two semesters and taught at an angle and a completely different style than AP. Admittedly, the workload is lighter because less emphasis is on content and more is on critically thinking about the occurrences. I found AP history exams very content heavy, even when accounting for free responses and DBQs).

Actually, I just checked our history departments website, and they really don’t take AP credit seriously at all. You can’t use it to place out of any history distribution requirements. It can only go toward credit needed to fulfill the major (ie, elective credit), in which case, it’s useless because most history majors will want to take colloqia or special topics classes for their electives and not actually want to or need to use such AP/IB credit. The only use history credit has is going toward graduation hours (need 128, and 8 hrs of history credit can go toward it, but it cannot be used to replace gen. ed requirements or anything. They are basically just in reserve for if you finish your major and GERs, yet fall short of 128, they can be used so that you can graduate).