<p>Our daughter received the testing schedule for AP exams this week and her APBio and APMusic Theroy exams are on the same day and time. The schools said she had to choose which to take. The AP Biology is also a Duel Credit course with the local CC so my assumption is that she would receive college credit for this course via the Dual Credit so the AP test becomes not necessary. (but reading another post about a student questioning the reporting of his/her scores and the post that colleges would assume it was taken, yet a poor result was the yield if not reported has me concerned) I could certainly be incorrect…I am most of the time ;-)</p>
<p>Now since she has chosen not to pursue any type of major in music, the AP-MT test would be on the chopping block, but does it have to be?</p>
<p>And last but not least, how unfair is that to students that really want both AP tests and the credit they earn?</p>
<p>And science will be her major…so I guess this begs the question…If she were to bomb the AP Bio test with 3 (ok not a bomb, but I think most schools giving credit are going to want a 4 or 5) is she better off just crossing her fingers that the credit will transfer and use another AP as a credit since most schools limit AP credits and she will have taken 14 AP classes in the end. Not all the scores will transfer.</p>
<p>HYP…she has her book at school, but the majority of her class is listen too and filtering music. For example the teacher plays a cord (major or minor) and they have to identify, etc. Apparently the test is very much like this. Only a small part is MC and the majority is listening and perfect pitch stuff. I am not musically AT ALL, so I would fail but just walking in the room…lol</p>
<p>Some colleges accept AP credit but do not give credit for college courses taken in high school, not even their own (think Harvard). So it really depends on which college she is considering applying to whether to accept the dual credit or insist on the AP test.</p>
<p>She needs to take one of the exams during late testing. I don’t know about either biology or music theory, but with some exams they really strongly prefer you to take that exam during the initial period. Regular scheduling for AP French, for example, because of the auditory and speaking component, and then APUSH or CALC in the late testing period.</p>
<p>If they won’t allow her to use the late testing period, I’d call around to other schools and see if one of the other schools will let her take it – I’d also raise hell with the principal. Many schools do not accept credits from dual offerings, so AP may well be the only way to go.</p>
<p>Bull****! Dual credit where? What if the college she ultimately decides to attend doesn’t accept dual credit, or transfer credit from whichever college does grant the dual credit?</p>
<p>The AP folks would not be happy to learn that a high school is ignoring their policies on conflicting test times. Raise hell and fight for what your daughter deserves and has a right to: a make-up time for one of the conflicting exams. There is no two ways about it. This is her right.</p>
<p>^^
Amen to that. Plenty of time to get the HS to toe the line with CB practices. Sounds like someone at the HS might be just a bit lazy and hoping not, under this circumstance, to administer a late exam. Lame.</p>
<p>collegeshopping, I suggest that you take a look at the AP regulations, in the pamphlet that is distributed to the students. It is probably also available online. If a student wishes to take exams with conflicting schedules, then the student is entitled to take one of them during the make-up period (after the two weeks), with no extra charge.<br>
I agree with several posters that dual credit is not equivalent to having an AP score. marite commented that Harvard will not grant credit for college courses taken in high school, and I’ll add Yale to that group–but they will give credit (of some variety, anyway) based on AP exams.
A little known fact that doesn’t seem to be advertised in the AP pamphlets–there is even a late-late exam period, for students who have conflicts with both regular and late exam periods. QMP took one late-late exam, due to university exams in multi-section courses that conflicted with the regular AP schedule; then two of the AP’s had the same times in the late administration. I wouldn’t be surprised if students with a very large number of AP’s also experienced this.</p>