<p>At USoCal, my S was given the max (32) credits for the 13 AP tests he passed with mostly 5s + the A he got for a college intro statistics course. This gives him advanced standing, so he was a sophomore before the 1st day of school but doesn’t meet many of his engineering requirements (even tho USC uses many of the exact same books that he covered from cover to cover in his AP calc & physics courses).
As a parent, I’m somewhat relieved because his AP courses gave him excellent teachers & great motivated classmates in HS. He says the classes in college are easy (probably because mostly review so far). This should help him start college off with a nice high GPA that hopefully he can easily maintain & keep his merit aid. This will allow him to devote his energies to finding his niche & the ECs that interest him in college & the engineering dept. I think the credits he’s taken only exempt him from 2 courses he’d otherwise have to take, but he’s fine with that as well.</p>
<p>I am very happy that his AP courses had great teachers & fewer than 20 students (sometimes as few as 4). He learned the material well, which I’m sure can only help him in college.</p>