Should I be retaking AP credits?

b_r_um
Thu, 21 Jun 2012 02:05:13 +0000

I should retake the classes in order to start college off with a very high gpa that will be tough to lower later on when I’m taking harder classes.

At my college it was the other way round. Introductory classes were graded the harshest and most students started off with a low GPA. Later everyone’s GPAs gradually improved as they got to upper-level classes which rarely gave out grades below a B+.

If you have mastered AP Calculus or both Physics C exams, I would skip the intro courses in college and take the next courses in the sequence instead. Med schools will be fine with that and you’ll be much more engaged in class. (If you only had Physics B, you might benefit from taking a calculus-based intro course.) I don’t know if this would also apply to biology and chemistry - someone above suggested that it might be worthwhile to retake those classes anyway.