B+ in AP Chem

skieurope
Sun, 04 Aug 2019 16:57:13 +0000

You’ll have to take more grad classes than in previous years (I think they changed it in this past year). My friend who just finished his 4th year masters said that he wouldn’t do it under the new requirements since they increased the courseload by such a drastic amount (I think it used to be like 5 grad-level classes, now it’s 8? not entirely clear)

In general, there are no offsets. A 5 on an AP exam show that the student can prepare for a 3 hour exam, but will not offset a grade in a 36 week course. Maybe if there are multiple applicants from this HS applying to the same “highly selective colleges” and the all have a B+ or below in AP Chem that will lead an AO to presume that the teacher is a hard grader. But one can’t bank on that.