App deadline is today for us
@shelleee wow that is incredible AP/DE incoming credit - record breaking - congrats!
My D has 7 of 8 AP’s that will apply at her school and 2 DE’s - 36 credits. On a 3 yr track with plans for OT grad school unless sidetracked along the way.
@my2caligirls we are right there with you, even though DS has tons of DS and DE credit only 36ish credits will actually count toward required classes for his major and 6 or 9 credits for his minor. The rest would just be “general elective credit” which doesn’t really help much because he needs those credit for his honors requirements and additional credits for his minor.
@shelleee, well, you didn’t get a 20% discount, but you’re the lead runner in the race for most expensive AP testing bill for this year! All kidding aside, your kids are amazing and I’m sure that good parenting is a big part of their success - congratulations for that as well!!
Unfortunately a lot of school’s cap AP well below that, but 75 is impressive! UF caps at 45, so S18 will have a good start but not as much as if he had done all DE and gotten an AA degree, which is silly as the AP course work is significantly more intensive (here anyway). There should be some recognition, like having an option to (re)take the course as pass/fail or something.
At least S will get to pick and choose his credits and they won’t count against his “excessive hours surcharge”… so he doesn’t end up with wasted hours that impact his ability to double major or take whatever he decides to take with the extra room in his schedule.
My daughter also was accepted sdsu honors, WWU honors, and UCI regent, UCSB chancellor’s invite. Her heart is set on UCLA, which seems to most likely come later. Although our spring break is the last two weeks of March, she wants to wait to see where she gets in, then we will visit. Other schools she is waiting, Univ of Wash, Vanderbilt, USC, UCSD, UCB. Wish the month was over and she would have some answers!!
@shelleee 8 APs in 1 year?! My D doesn’t even have that many class periods, let alone all APs. Wow!
@amominaz your D’s school has a FB page for the parents? I’m jealous! No such luck for me, and my D’s keeping the admitted students FB page to herself. 
We actually have 7 class periods too but microeconomics is 1 semester and macroeconomics is the other semester, that’s how she ended up with 8 AP tests. Because our school doesn’t offer some of these higher level AP classes, 3 of her AP classes are online, too (AP physics, economics and Calculus BC). It’s a lot, I know but she asked to take the classes so I wasn’t going to tell her no and exclude her from any opportunities. DD16 took 8 her senior year, too. Glad spring break is coming up.
It’s March! Only one more month 
If your student has two AP tests scheduled for the same day, is there any way around that? I can’t see how D is going to handle AP Calc BC and then have any room left in her brain for another one. (
No news yet on the scholarship. But D got a letter yesterday that she can go to community college for five semesters for free.
The deadline for the honors program application that I was worried about D getting done has been extended until Monday. Yay!
@Kayak24, you can ask about taking AP exams during the makeup period after regular exams. Last year S had two exams scheduled for the exact same test period so he ended up taking one the week after. I’m not sure if it’s up to the school or if there’s another way around it though. In S’s case there were at least 20-30 students affected by the same conflict (I want to say Enviro and Chem but could be wrong) so the school sorted it all out without him having to do anything. S’s school would not accommodate a student without a direct conflict though, so students who want to spread out exams to avoid taking two per day would not be able to do that through the school. Some schools don’t have the resources to even offer AP exams during the makeup period, and affected students have to find another place to take those exams. I’d start by asking the school, but if they won’t or can’t help you might be able to work directly with CB to find an alternate test option.
@shelleee That’s got to be the record. Congrats to your daughter for all that hard work. None of the schools in my son’s original list would accept more than 30 credits from testing. I would have loved to get him through undergrad in 3 years and used that last year’s budgeted money to pay for towards grad school
The AP range for S’18 is very wide, ranging from as few as 2 credits (out of 34 credits needed to graduate) to as high as 45 (UF). Fortunately, the school district pays for the AP tests and the students don’t have to take a final if they take an AP test. So, no cost and no extra testing. Guess we’ll see how it goes based on March admissions and funding.
D has lots of AP credits too. So, we just assumed she would grad early or have extra room in her schedule. That is until a professor during one of her interviews stated that he would really ask her to reconsider “crediting out” of a core class in your Major. Said some teachers teacher other basics in the intro classes besides the material which can really put you behind or struggle in your major classes. So we decided to take it class by class and no exempt out just because we have the AP credit. Just something to think about.
Jumping in from class of 2019. It can be a really bad idea to use AP credit to move further along in the student’s major classes. I know lots of kids who used their BC calc AP to pass out of two semesters of calc and had a really hard time in that third semester. Many could only get a C. Same goes for Chem and Physics. For math specifically, it’s probably best to take the college’s placement test if they have one to see where the student fits in their calc series.
@birdie3, We thought about that, too. we might suggest to our daughter that she not take the AP credits for the course in her major so that she can have a fresh start when she arrives there. Also she took the AP class in 10th grade (it was for government and politics) so we don’t know if she’s up to speed on all the information she would need to take the higher level government class that she would go into by skipping the lower level one that the AP credits convert to.
@lifegarding one of the schools my daughter is looking at will not take AP credits from her freshman or sophomore year. I think it’s all about the time span between learning. We took all the test and will continue to take the test just in case. 
Using AP credits allowed my D to lighten her semester load a bit, and take some classes for fun.
She only needed Calc 1 as a pre-pharmacy major so she was able to use AP credit for that. Also she didn’t have to take English composition, economics and history.
D will re-take the key AP classes in college (Calc, Bio) as she’s got her sights set on med school. She can’t risk accelerating herself in core classes as GPA preservation will be very important for her. She needs to set herself up for success.