Disagreement with Parents about APs

MYOS1634
Sat, 07 May 2016 22:00:11 +0000

What college is this?
If it’s Youngstown State’s BS/MD, sure you can skip Level 1 of each class (but not more than that).
If it’s UChicago, even without taking the credit you’re going to suffer because the difference isn’t who took AP and who didn’t, but who took AP and scored a 4, and who took AP and scored a 5.
Also, this is assuming a score of 4 or 5. DO NOT attempt to skip a college class for which you got an AP 3.
Remember also that colleges each teach following a specific sequence, with specific methods and approaches AP may not teach (an AP class is not exactly a college class - first, it’s very slow-paced compared to a college class, and, second, while it’s uniformized for advanced content, not all colleges teach exactly what you learn in AP, so that you may end up with “gaps”.) The best way to see if you can skip one semester is to ask the professor for a retired final exam for the course you’d like to skip. If you score 90%+, you can skip. If not, take the class.
You’re going to prepare for med school. Med schools don’t care what you did in high school. They want you to take biology, physics, and English in college; you may be able to skip one level of calculus but unless you actually got college credit for a math class taken at a college, don’t skip more than that.
You CAN request credit for AP CS, AP Art History, AP History (Euro/World/US), AP Econ, AP Gov, AP Foreign Language.
For English, it means you’ll need to take 2 higher-level seminars - see if you can take Honors Composition and something interdisciplinary.