College parents did your students use AP scores for credit

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Anonymous wrote:For private T20, you don't get "credit" to graduate early. It may waive certain required curriculum, but that's it. There's no graduating early.

That's a public college thing.

That's not true. You can graduate from UPenn up to one year early if you choose to do so and you have completed all the required credits...which can include AP test scores for intro Math, Science, and Language classes. You usually need a 5 on any AP Test to get the credit.

I gather there are others in the Top 20 that allow the same.

That's not what I've seen in the Ivies. You can use the AP as a pre-requisite for a more advanced class than the foundational requirements, but using it to graduate early is not typical. Ivies typically require a specific number of credits or semesters to be completed, regardless of AP credit earned.

My kid is there now. I was not implying it was typical, but in fact you can use AP test scores (Calc BC, AP Physics C, AP Computer Science, AP Language...again, I believe you need a 5 in all) for class credit which count towards graduation requirements.

Anyone can take a crazy course load as well and decide to graduate early. Seems like Cornell allows you to do the same.

I agree it's not typical....but you can do it and every year say 20 kids decide to take this route.

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Here is the precise list of what you need on your AP's to earn credits at Cornell A&S (which is a private Ivy top-20 college by the way).

https://as.cornell.edu/advising/ap-ib-a-level-credits

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Anonymous wrote:Kids recently graduated from William & Mary and University of Virginia. Both graduated in 4 years, and used AP to get credit for some required classes that allowed them to take other courses. Both were able to graduate with double majors.

Our DC is headed to W&M this fall. Were any of their AP credits for courses in their majors?

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Anonymous wrote:Here is the precise list of what you need on your AP's to earn credits at Cornell A&S (which is a private Ivy top-20 college by the way).

https://as.cornell.edu/advising/ap-ib-a-level-credits

This is university wide AP credit info.

https://courses.cornell.edu/content.php?catoid=60&navoid=26204

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Don't confuse credits for college graduation, and credits to skip introductory classes. Usually APs are used to jump ahead to more interesting classes or validate a technical requirement, and it will depend on which APs for which major... but students don't usually get to take fewer total credits.

At GWU, for the Elliott School of International Affairs, my son was able to use his AP Calc BC to skip the math requirement; his AP history courses to skip the introductory history classes; his AP micro-macro to skip the first econ class; and his AP French, plus a placement test given by the French department at GW, to place into the higher-level French classes, since language is a requirement for his major.

This meant he was able to dive right into the meat of his preferred topics in freshman year, which is great for his ADHD, "won't work unless interested" sort of profile. And over the course of his undergrad experience, it means he has a little more freedom to take courses that actually interest him.

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My Pomona kid was able to use two APs for either credit or at least satisfaction of general eds (it probably doesn't matter which). If the kid had gone to the local flagship, however, they would have essentially started as sophomore. Different strokes and whatnot.

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I posted the list of 8-10 schools that don't accept AP scores for credit and know I left one or two off the list.

GW is another...maybe someone else will post the 10th.

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Mine used them to get into as advanced classes as possible and fulfill requirements.

He missed a few of the exams senior year due to illness and didn’t make them up. I think he really regretted not being able to use those credits too.

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Yes my UC kid (from a no AP HS) took a few AP tests and used them to get out of language, writing 1 and a lower level math. Was worth it to get Sophomore standing during freshman year to begin to take certain classes toward the major and have a bit of a buffer on credits.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For private T20, you don't get "credit" to graduate early. It may waive certain required curriculum, but that's it. There's no graduating early.

That's a public college thing.

That's not true. You can graduate from UPenn up to one year early if you choose to do so and you have completed all the required credits...which can include AP test scores for intro Math, Science, and Language classes. You usually need a 5 on any AP Test to get the credit.

I gather there are others in the Top 20 that allow the same.

That's not what I've seen in the Ivies. You can use the AP as a pre-requisite for a more advanced class than the foundational requirements, but using it to graduate early is not typical. Ivies typically require a specific number of credits or semesters to be completed, regardless of AP credit earned.

This is the case for my DD at Brown. She was able to get a higher placement in two different areas, but she had to take another elective in its place.

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Mine is at VT. She got rid of her history requirements and did not have to take the math exam for placement. She skipped math and physics courses so she could move ahead and will have a double major now. So it allowed her to double major and not take history.

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AP credit helped my son get his first internship. The Google summer program at that time required calculus and intro to computer science as pre-reqs. I guess most students take these their first college year. But because he had credit for those through AP tests, he applied in the fall of his freshman year and received an offer for the following summer.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For private T20, you don't get "credit" to graduate early. It may waive certain required curriculum, but that's it. There's no graduating early.

That's a public college thing.

That's not true. You can graduate from UPenn up to one year early if you choose to do so and you have completed all the required credits...which can include AP test scores for intro Math, Science, and Language classes. You usually need a 5 on any AP Test to get the credit.

I gather there are others in the Top 20 that allow the same.

That's not what I've seen in the Ivies. You can use the AP as a pre-requisite for a more advanced class than the foundational requirements, but using it to graduate early is not typical. Ivies typically require a specific number of credits or semesters to be completed, regardless of AP credit earned.

This is the case for my DD at Brown. She was able to get a higher placement in two different areas, but she had to take another elective in its place.

This. At northwestern.

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Anonymous wrote:For private T20, you don't get "credit" to graduate early. It may waive certain required curriculum, but that's it. There's no graduating early.

That's a public college thing.

+100

Sorry both my kids did it at private schools.

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DS used AP credit (Calc AB and Calc BC) to place out of Calc 1 but his data science major required him to take Calc 2 on campus. I this AP Stats also satisfied the intro stats class and APSUH was used for a general ed class. Otherwise, AP credits went to general electives.

DD had AP credits for biology and environmental science but as an ES major her school required that she take the intro classes on campus and gave her general elective credit for those tests. Used AP English for the intro freshman English class and AP Stats for a required stats class.