<p>sorry in advance if this is the wrong place to post this, but any insight would be appreciated</p>
<p>1) when each college lists its tuition, is this price assuming that the student has no AP credits, so he/she would have to pay max for classes (as opposed to taking $90 AP tests and transferring out of some classes)?</p>
<p>2) u know how if u have more AP credits, u can register earlier? how much difference there is b/t certain “x” number of units when trying to sign up for the “better” professor who maybe grades easier, gives easier tests, etc?</p>
<p>again, thanks for any info on this</p>
<p>1.) As far as I am aware, tuition is tuition. It does not vary based on the amount of credits you come in with, because chances are, you will be taking just as many classes, but fewer intro classes. Some schools offer differ tuition for different schools (e.g. Arts and Sciences v. Engineering), but that’s the only difference I’ve heard of.</p>
<p>2.) This doesn’t happen at Richmond; I don’t know about other schools. Sometimes the amount of credits that you come in with will affect your class standing so that you can register with sophomores or juniors instead of with freshmen. People try to weasel their way around this rule at UR, and I haven’t heard of anyone being successful. The only people who register ahead of their class are the scholars, and they have designated early registration times. So again, this would differ between colleges.</p>
<p>You’re still going to be taking at least 12 hours when you come in, regardless of how many credits you have before. You can’t not be full-time just because you have some APs; otherwise, things like insurance, scholarships/fin. aid, etc. get wonky. At my school 12-15 hours is full-time; above 15 you have to pay more.</p>
<p>at my school, incoming people register at the same time as all the other incoming people: in the summer at orientation. However, having AP credit CAN allow you to register earlier in the fall for spring classes (like you might would register with the sophomores instead of the rest of the frosh). You can try to sign up for “easier” professors, but it’s still can be a bit of a draw as to when the classes fill up. If it’s a good teacher, their classes tend to fill up really fast.</p>
<p>At my D’s school, the tuition is the tuition. When my D wanted to take 20credits for the same tuition as 12-15, I said " You go girl! Take as many as they let you for all the money I’m paying" :)</p>
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<li><p>As everyone else said, if you’re a full-time student, you’ll pay a flat rate for 12+ credit hours. At my school, you pay a a flat rate per credit hour if you are a part time student. AP doesn’t have any impact on tuition, it only gets you out of some of your school’s intro classes. </p></li>
<li><p>At my school, the more credits you have, the earlier you register…except for new students. New students-no matter which semester it is, register weeks after current students. For example, I’ll be going into the fall '08 registration with 62 credit hours and will probably register for classes at the beginning of the week of April 7th; students who have more credits than I will register some time during the previous week, students with less will register either later the same week or the next week. New students won’t register for fall classes until their summer orientation in June. It’s one of the downsides of being a newbie, but it’s only fair. At my school, AP credits sometimes make new freshman registration more difficult, because all of the upper 100 and 200 level classes that they want will be full, but they are always able to make some kind of schedule work. However, those AP credits would bump up your registration time slot every semester after that first one.</p></li>
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<p>Like everyone else has said, you don’t get a discount in tuition if you took AP classes. The advantage with AP classes (besides preparing you for college-level work) is that unless you’re at a very high end school, most schools will grant you college credit for those classes. Therefore, you end up saving money in that you don’t have to take (and pay for) lower level classes, and if you have a lot of AP credits, you could also potentially graduate earlier, which also saves money.</p>