Interesting thoughts about AP courses

aldfig0
Sat, 16 Nov 2013 03:04:58 +0000

HopeNorthwestern:

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.

I don’t see anything wrong with this. Any general chemistry topics required for organic chemistry are typically reviewed in the class anyway (and the textbook should have review material) and only a qualitative (not quantitative) understanding is needed.



preamble1776:

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 - I doubt I can get the same grades in college level courses at a college or university

That doesn’t matter. Your grade in the class doesn’t determine whether you get credit or not - the AP exam does. If you can do well on the AP exam with what you’re currently doing, then I see no reason why you wouldn’t perform similarly in an equivalent college class.