Question about AP credit?

millie210
Sat, 21 Jan 2017 03:54:21 +0000

In the olden days (late 70’s) when I was in high school, we generally assumed there was no point to taking the AP exam if you didn’t have a use for the credit. But that was when there were dial phones plugged into the wall, if you wanted to see a movie you went to a movie theater and there were no USNWR college rankings. Times have changed.

Today, I’d look to two things.

First, check to see if your high school requires that you take the exam. My son’s school does and the AP exam generally counts as the final for the class.

Second, and I don’t know the answer to this, so im just throwing it out there, I wonder if there are colleges that like to see the exam if you took the class. You’re not required to submit AP scores, so the absence of a score could mean you didn’t take the exam OR you didn’t like the score. Even if the absence of a score is neutral, doesn’t count against you, it could be that the 4 or 5 is a small mark in the plus column.