<p>I’ve heard this from a couple of MN residents a while back. They came to my university with over 40 college credits from high school and they didn’t take one AP test. Is there something with that state or what?</p>
<p>It might be they had taken IB courses.</p>
<p>Doesn’t the state allow dual enrollment with the University of Minnesota?</p>
<p>From the DoE (<a href=“http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/pi/hsinit/papers/dual.pdf[/url]”>http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/pi/hsinit/papers/dual.pdf</a> ):
'Minnesota was the first state to develop a dual enrollment program, which it calls the Postsecondary Enrollment Options Program. State statutes mandate that schools must provide students with dual enrollment opportunities. The state has also set participation guidelines that include: students may not take more than the equivalent of two years of coursework through the program and schools may not offer students developmental or remedial coursework. Students pay no tuition or associated costs"</p>
<p>Also no one has to take AP tests.</p>
<p>They probably took classes at community college.</p>
<p>Yes, it’s possible. I was full time dual-enrolled at the U of MN this past year for my senior year of high school and I accumulated more than 20 college credits, and I know lots of people who did it two years (junior and senior). Our state has a lot of great dual-enrollment programs at all sorts of colleges that many people take advantage of =) I still know lots of people (including myself) that still take AP tests to get credit that way, however.</p>
<p>No one has to take AP tests.</p>
<p>Frosh who enter with credit may have taken college courses while in high school.</p>
<p>I know my local community college has these things called “BCCCAP” credits. You basically just take a course at your high school, AP or not, that has an equivalent course at the community college and is taught by someone with a degree in the subject, and you get community college credits in the course that are usable with most of the state schools.
If Minnesota has an equivalent program, maybe they did that?</p>
<p>This should answer your question:
[Postsecondary</a> Enrollment Options (PSEO)](<a href=“This section has moved.”>This section has moved.)</p>
<p>AP courses/exams are also offered in MN and function just like in other states.</p>
<p>The state of Minnesota offers a program where you as a high school junior or senior can take classes at any college in the state and the state will pay for the tuition. By doing this, Minnesota residents can have sometimes up to 60+ credits by the time they enter college as a freshman.</p>
<p>This is probably what you heard about, its called PSEO</p>