@pamom414 You have to look at both the AP Credit matrix and the CS major flowchart to figure out what credit he will get. Looking at the CS flowchart, I don’t see any free electives so don’t bother with the AP CS Principles test at all. As for Spanish, if he gets a 5 then he could get credit for a C1 if the test is the right one - I suggest calling the admissions office because the credit matrix might change for the 2019 tests. If he doesn’t get a 5, then he will only get credit for a C5 gen ed and the CS flowchart does not have a requirement for a C5 gen ed. If it were my kid, I’d pass on the Spanish test, too. It’s not germane to his major and it looks very questionable as to whether he’d get usable credit for it. As for the rest, definitely take them IF you want credit. Passing Calc BC will give you credit for Calc I and II and start you in Calc III, considered the most challenging of the calc series. We chose to have my son to forgo the AP BC test and repeat Calc II to give him an easier start to his Cal Poly career (his major is electrical engineering, very heavy on calculus). Since your child isn’t an engineering major and his need for calc won’t be as great as a calc-heavy engineering major, getting two calc classes out of the way and starting in calc III is probably fine. He will only get usable credit for Physics if he gets a 4 or 5 on the exam so make sure to tell him to study hard. As for US history he won’t get usable credit towards his D1 gen ed (the political science requirement) unless he also takes the AP Government test so I’d also pass on that test, too, unless he thinks he can self study AP Gov’t. If you pass both APUSH and AP Gov’t then you only have to take a 1 credit POLS class, considered to be a lot easier than the regular 4 credit required political science class. AP Government is only a one semester class in California so self study might pay off. I guess you could pay to take all the AP tests and get some useless credits towards boosting his status but I’m pretty sure degree progress is what counts most when it comes to registering and the empty credits won’t help that. However, I could be wrong. If he takes Calc BC, Physics, and Macro he’ll come in with 16 useable credits and be a quarter ahead of his peers.