Which is Preferable: "College Credit" Classes or AP Classes?

mathmomvt
Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:19:15 +0000

My impression is that the rule against accepting college credits also used for HS comes out of “laziness” more than a feeling that AP courses are always more rigorous – with AP they know what it is, and don’t have to investigate. With college courses, they have to check each course to see what it covers and how it corresponds to their offerings, as well as how rigorous the course is. This is done routinely for transfer students, but it’s presumably a lot of work, and they don’t want to do it for every incoming freshman, now that dual credit courses have become so popular. I wonder if any of those schools would make exceptions though if you were taking the college course at a well-known institution? Or if they just make it a hard-and-fast rule for “consistency”?