A.P's no longer waived

ottothecow
Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:17:36 +0000

If you havnt taken AP’s before I guess you dont know how to guage them but for me it has never really been a deal of worrying about doing well enough for credit. If you are taking the class and doing fairly well, you should do well on the test (unless you are a bad test taker). If you think you can do well enough in several, consider what you don’t want to do at college. Do you want to skip out of the english generals but think it might be better if you had another calculus class even if you would do fine on the test? Then skip the calc test and take one of the English ones (your teacher can tell you which one you should go with). Maybe English is tougher for you (or you want to write easier papers your freshman year) but the thought of relearning all of that calc instead of moving onto multivariable calc and stuff is horrid. Then take AP calc and send yourself to the next level.

Most schools out there do charge their students some sort of fee. I can’t imagine what I would be paying if UChicago’s AP/IB test policy agreed with me…I would be taking both AP and IB tests (and IB tests all take 2 days)…maybe I am glad that my scores wont be buying me credit…