AP generous T100s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My freshman at Cornell walked in with 21 AP credits available to him in Chem (4 credits), Foreign Language (3 credits), Calc BC (8 credits), Psych (3 credits) English Literature (3 credits). He also earned 9 community college credits during HS so has the ability to graduate in 3 years if he wants to.

Odd that you would get community college credit, most of the selective schools do not allow this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cornell makes you test there regardless of how you did on the ADS to skip math or science classes.

Not true. My Cornell kid skipped intro Chem class based on his AP score of 5. Did not have to test. Same will be true for his 5 on Calc BC. No test to skip intro Calculus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My freshman at Cornell walked in with 21 AP credits available to him in Chem (4 credits), Foreign Language (3 credits), Calc BC (8 credits), Psych (3 credits) English Literature (3 credits). He also earned 9 community college credits during HS so has the ability to graduate in 3 years if he wants to.

Odd that you would get community college credit, most of the selective schools do not allow this

it is not automatic at Cornell, He has to apply for the transfer credit. But preliminary indication from advisors is that he will be able to transfer 6 of 9 CC class credits.

[Anonymous]

UMD gave enough credits to finish college in 2.5 years if my kid wanted. Instead my kid did 2 majors and 1 minor. Gratis because of generous merit scholarship.

[Anonymous]

UMD is very generous. DS had 11 APs (10 5s and 1 4) and entered with sophomore status. Will still need 4 years to graduate because of his academic plan (satisfying the requirements of 2 different programs).
He is a stem major and is actually taking some foundational stem courses again.
Having AP credit also allows him to take higher level humanities courses. So having 5s in AP language and AP literature meant he could take a 300 level Communication class as a freshman.
The point is that it gives your child options.

[Anonymous]

Most state schools give AP credit and plenty of privates. You can find this info on the websites and agree with PP that it might depend on school within school.

My humanities kid got credit for his science and math APs and ACT scores but I think if he were a science major he wouldn't have gotten credit for all that.