Question about AP credit?

Bop
Sat, 21 Jan 2017 00:03:04 +0000

I’m kinda clueless about how AP credits work, so i would love some clarification.
so I read that colleges will accept a 4 or a 5 to place you out of a class.
lets say I take AP Chinese and AP Music Theory and get a 5 on both. That would place me out of the college equivalent of both those classes.

but if I’m planning on studying pre-med, for example, i wouldn’t be taking those classes anyways. So what is the point essentially of AP credits?

If someone could give me a detailed explanation on how the system works and what im not comprehending, that’d be greatly appreciated.