Top tier college education worth it ?

[ucbalumnus]

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@poetgrl

Sometimes, as shravas is pointing out sideways, the education you get in an AP class, which is a lot about how to take the AP test, is not going to prepare you well for the next class in the sequence. A university skipping a student out of calc due to AP might not be doing that student any favors in the long run.

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<p>That is why it is a good idea for new frosh with AP credit to try the old final exams of the courses that may be skipped, if they are intending to take more advanced courses for which those potentially skipped courses are prerequisites for. It should not be assumed that the student should automatically repeat all of his/her AP credit.</p>

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@poetgrl

First years are in the middle of a transition and have a lot of adjusting to do. One thing they have to learn is how to cover that same amount of material in 15 weeks. There are a lot of factors.

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<p>Any decent college, including a community college, will require the transition to a greater level of self-motivation and less hand-holding than in high school. But that is independent of whether a student who has had advanced (AP or college) courses in high school has learned material that would place him/her into a more advanced course when starting college.</p>