Interesting thoughts about AP courses

halcyonheather
Fri, 15 Nov 2013 19:28:03 +0000

For example, a student who wants to pursue a career in chemistry should not take AP Chemistry their sophomore or junior year of high school and then a gap year until organic chemistry in college.



AFAIK it’s generally recommended that people not use AP credits to get out of courses required for their major. The university intro course might cover more or be structured way differently than the AP course was, and it’s important to get a feel for that before you start taking higher-level classes in your major.
AP credits should be used to get out of distribution requirements outside your major.



I know it sounds lousy, but I’ve been getting by in all of my AP classes for the past three years with pure and absolute BS



You can do this in some university classes, or at least I have. The difficulty of college courses varies widely.