<p>I took 8 AP classes through high school (3 Junior, 5 Senior). I’ve found the classes to be pretty good, but the overall preparation for the exams has been lackluster. For example, I had a 99 in my US History Class (which was a difficult class), but the material that we concentrated on unfortunately missed a lot of info for the AP test. I got a 3. Classes like BC Calc and Chem were a different story, but they were the only very preparatory classes. We were prepared very well for the molecular portion of the AP Biology test, but didn’t even touch Ecology. </p>
<p>Personally, I’ve found actually taking AP tests has not served me well at all. I was accepted at UPenn, and they are stingy with credit. I backed out of two of the four tests I was going to take this year because I can only get credit for 5’s (which was unlikely for many given the above) and for US Government, for example, I couldn’t get credit at all.</p>
<p>Has anyone else had a similar situation?</p>