<p>Brand-name schools give limited, if any credit for high schools on AP exams. </p>
<p>Although it is conceivable that schools want to start everyone on the same level (or get more money) by not accepting AP credit, the sweated hours of study for AP courses (especially for the high # of exams CCers claim to take) should save you from those classes in college.</p>
<p>QUESTION: Which schools give a good amount of credit for high AP scores?</p>
<p>Please support whether it is best to go for a Name program and get no credits (granted $$ issues are settled) or get the most credits at another distinguished (but not brand-name) college</p>
<p>You’re right that the best schools often don’t give much/any AP Credit. There could be several reasons for this…level the education, more money, making sure the 100 level classes get filled, etc. </p>
<p>Are you a junior or senior? </p>
<p>Some of the mid-tiers are generous with AP credits. If you go to Collegeboard, you can plug in a school’s name for their AP credit policies. </p>
<p>What is your goal? graduate early? </p>
<p>My kids each had about 45 credits from APs when they started college. Their high school only offered 7 AP classes, so they were limited to those. They both took the full four years to graduate, but they each did two minors and took some other classes for fun.</p>
<p>Sometimes it is inadvisable to actually take all of the AP credit that a university will allow you to have. This is particularly true when the credit is for fundamental courses in engineering or physical sciences. I have seen a number of my advisees get in over their heads and get poor grades early in their college careers by taking sophomore level Calculus or physics when they might have been better served to take the course again and really solidify their understanding.</p>
<p>AP courses taken at even the best high schools may not really be the equivalent of a semester long course in a demanding college curriculum. This could be one of the reasons that some schools don’t give AP credit. The bottom line is that even if you attend a university which gives AP credit some thought needs to be give as to which courses are best to repeat.</p>
<p>I am currently a junior. After this year I will have taken 11 AP exams… ~17 by graduation.</p>
<p>I plan to major in Chemical Engineering… with a possible double major with chemistry.
I plan to attend graduate school also, so a PhD by age 30 is def in my plans if I’m not asking for too much.</p>
<p>UW-Madison, GaTech, U of M, and Berkeley give decent to great AP credit and excel in those majors.</p>
<p>I plan to use my credits in Biology, Calculus BC (I would have done Calc 3 by graduation), and Chemistry. Statistics for engineers is different, so I don’t think that’ll apply for anything.</p>
<p>Most of my credits are humanities, so I’d like to get credit for as many of those and focus on more engineering in school.</p>
<p>Using your AP credits allows you to have more flexibility in your scheduling and to pursue unrelated interests. In some cases the AP credits may not accelerate your graduation as much as you might think because of pre-reqs and co-requisites for your required courses. You might find that most of your freshman year is wide open but later years are still set in stone.</p>
<p>DREXEL!!! They take a lot of AP and CLEP credits. I personally recommend going to a school that accepts more credits regardless of name. This way, even if you aren’t able to graduate earlier (as the above posters mentioned), you will have space to take up a minor or other interest, as well as focus more on your major classes with the hard weed-outs out of the way.</p>
<p>Public universities are often very generous with credit units for AP scores, since they want students to finish as quickly as possible (each in-state student is explicitly being subsidized with in-state discounted tuition).</p>
<p>However, engineering majors may find that subject credit is more limited than credit units.</p>
<p>As far as whether to use AP credit to fulfill subject requirements when allowed, consider the following:</p>
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<li>If the subject requirement is only peripheral and not an important prerequisite to other courses, use the AP credit so that you can have an additional free elective.</li>
<li>Otherwise, review the college’s final exams for the course(s) that may be skipped to check your knowledge against the college’s expectations for students completing the course. (Some colleges, like Notre Dame and WUStL, have mandatory placement testing for students wishing to take skip into advanced courses; these would obviously substitute for reviewing the college’s final exams.)</li>
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