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<p>Um, Oberlin parent here, so I can’t speak to AP credit issues overall, especially in the hard sciences, which is not D’s area of interest. Otherwise, I am not sure what qialah is referring to about Oberlin being tough re: AP credits. Oberlin’s fairly generous AP credit policy was one of the tipping factors for D’s decision to attend. D came into Oberlin with Sophomore status because of a plethora of AP credits, and therefore she has much greater flexibility in choosing to take courses she really WANTS to take, as opposed to HAS to take to fulfill distribution requirements. Oberlin was on her list because of the relatively open curriculum, and knowing that she had the 9-9-9 distribution requirements largely taken care of by AP credits helped in her decision to attend. She is planning on double majoring (always her goal, since early in HS) and she should have no problems completing requirements for two majors. She will also be able to take a full year abroad because of the flexibility her many AP credits afford her, and is now, as a rising sophomore, already exploring her options for study abroad in several different countries, which she hopes to do during her junior year.</p>