Does your grade in AP Bio predict how you'll do as a Bio major?

comfortablycurt
Tue, 03 Dec 2013 02:12:45 +0000

AP classes are generally going to give very little of an indication of how well you’d do in a given major. I know people that have take AP Calculus in high school and have done horrible after going on to college calculus. Conversely, I know people that never even took pre-calc in high school and have excelled in college calculus. The same can be said for physics, chemistry, biology or any other subject you could name.

AP classes are generally just a broad survey. They cover all of the main points of the field without a great level of depth. AP classes are often based on the rote memorization of large amounts of information, rather than any real rigor of understanding of any of these various fields. Thus, they aren’t really much of an indicator of how well one will do in a college course.