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Many state government’s financial is not in a very good shape. Therefore, public colleges may choose this policy to get their students out as soon as possible to save money. It saves the student’s money and boost his/her ego too. It seems to benefit everybody, until the med school application cycle comes in, when they find their AP credits and dual college credits are not highly regarded by adcoms (due to the low quality of the student pool who are in the class), if they are accepted at all.</p>
<p>For whatever reason it may be, like texaspg posted above, these credits won’t count at all at a top private college in most cases, or count very little.</p>
<p>OP, go to the “best” college where you think you could still get good enough grades. Only you would know (better than anybody else here) whether, at a particular college, you could still get good grades. Some CCer posted that, as a rule of thumb, you should only go to a school where your SAT/ACT scores are in the top 25 percents of the class at that college.</p>