How important is engineering undergraduate school name recognition?

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@boneh3ad

This isn’t always a positive. Generally, those schools have a good reason for being stingy with AP credit. Since the quality of AP instruction varies so widely, a given student may actually be prepared to skip a certain class while other students with the same score may not. Accepting lots of AP credit can be risky from the student’s perspective.

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<p>Public schools appear to be more generous with credit units for AP scores than private schools – probably because they want students to graduate as quickly as possible to reduce the amount of in-state tuition subsidy used on any given student (unlike private schools, who will gladly have students pay tuition for extra semesters).</p>

<p>But subject credit and placement may be much more limited than credit units, since many AP tests are not applicable to engineering major requirements. Some may be applicable in limited amounts to H/SS breadth if the school allows that. The “excess” credit units that do not count for any subject credit may raise class standing for registration purposes, even if they are otherwise useless.</p>

<p>A student who is allowed to skip a course with an AP score can try the college’s old final exams of the course that may be skipped in order to check his/her knowledge of that course from the college’s point of view.</p>