<p>Not necessarily. You still have the option to take any AP/IB credits you earn through testing; the credits just don’t factor into your ISIS registration priority at the University.</p>
<p>Also, if you do well enough on the Spanish Language exam, you can place up or out of UVa’s Foreign Language Area Requirement. If you can swing an Exemption in the Foreign Language area, that’s a sweet deal IMO.</p>
<p>My son placed out in Latin, and it’s really given him much more flexibility with scheduling his classes. He’s not “wasting” time taking something he’d prefer to avoid, and it’s allowing him to take courses he’s interested in sooner than he could have otherwise if he was “stuck” taking four semesters of a Foreign Language. [My apologies to any Foreign Language teachers who may be reading this thread; but I took two years of Latin at UVa, and that wasn’t any walk in the park believe you me!]</p>
<p>You may have to take the SAT II to place out of the Foreign Language Area Requirement. I’m not sure if you can get an Exemption from taking the AP exam and posting a particular score. You can probably get that info from the UVa web site. Now that I think about it, my son placed out of the Foreign Language Area Requirement by virtue of his Latin SAT II test score.</p>