<p>Barski222–</p>
<p>The same question crossed my mind last year, especially when my daughter came down with the flu during AP week. In her case, the main reason she struggled through the exams was that her school would have demoted her AP courses to Honors on her final transcript if she hadn’t. (Also, we’d already paid the full fees; we didn’t know you could send just a deposit.) Otherwise…I’m not so sure what purpose they served. She did qualify for advanced English and math courses based on her AP scores, but SAT IIs might have worked just as well. It’s worth checking the specifics at Bulldog Days, if you’d really rather skip the APs.</p>
<p>Of course, back in the day my husband, also a Yalie, made the mistake of telling his parents that he had enough AP credits to graduate a semester early–and they took him up on it :rolleyes:.</p>