AP Credits - Do you have to use them?

drmambo
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:59:16 +0000

I wouldn’t be too sure about the last post…I personally know a girl who got a 5 on one of the AP Calcs (the one that places you out of Calc I, but not II), then took Calc II as an elective and didn’t do so hot. Don’t trust your AP score as a gauge of whether you truly will do well in the class or not.

My personal opinion: place out your electives/the things that aren’t prereqs to required things. Whenever given the opportunity, take the “mcgill version”, because for things like science and math, you’d be surprised at how exclusive the ciriculum here is.

For instance: how much of your AP Calc covers hyperbolic trig functions? How much of your AP Chem covers organic chem? I don’t know the AP curriculum, but these are both things that I would think aren’t very well covered in the AP curriculums, because for the most part, they aren’t very well covered in the college curriculum. You might be fine placing out, but why put yourself in that risky position, should you find yourself having to simultaneously catch up and learn new material?