How much college credit did you have upon graduating high school?

[Anonymous]

I don’t remember exactly how many credits I had but I had to take a test to place into a higher level foreign language. I tested into the 300 level in Spanish and 200 in French.

I graduated in 4 years with a B.S. in Marketing and a B.A. in Spanish.

[Anonymous]

35+ (don’t remember exactly)
Mid-90s TJ grad

[Anonymous]

1991.
IIRC I had 20: 6 for English and 14 for French language. My first French class was a junior level literature class.

[Anonymous]

2 APs for me, didn't do anything with them as far as college when graduating HS/entering college in 1987

2 kids, both about 12 APs each. One took fewer classes every year of college (good, because, ADHD), one graduated college in 3 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2 APs for me, didn't do anything with them as far as college when graduating HS/entering college in 1987

2 kids, both about 12 APs each. One took fewer classes every year of college (good, because, ADHD), one graduated college in 3 years.

12 AP classes or 12 AP credits?

[Anonymous]

12 AP classes.

One in 9th
Three in 10th
Four in 11th
Four in 12th

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:12 AP classes.

One in 9th
Three in 10th
Four in 11th
Four in 12th

DS had enough to graduate college in 2 years, but chose to stay for 3.

[Anonymous]

Lol, none. I had to take a placement test and then take three remedial courses over the summer before starting my fall freshman semester.

[Anonymous]

About 30 credits. How much did you have OP?

[Anonymous]

I had 0. Daughter had 62.

[Anonymous]

0

[Anonymous]

I had 0 in the 1970s. Kid in 2015 had 52. Enabled kid to take 4 classes per semester instead of 5, & graduate in 3 yrs. It pays to do a lot of research on what credits individual colleges give for certain scores on AP exams. Some colleges give 15+ credits for a 5 on the AP exam in a foreign language.

[Anonymous]

None. This was not a thing when I was in high school.

[Anonymous]

Be aware that you don’t need to take an AP course to take the associated AP exam. This comes in handy if kid grew up in household where a foreign language was spoken, or if kid took a lot of private music lessons.

[Anonymous]

Zero.

My high school had tracks that were extremely strict and determined by a single meeting with the guidance counselor the summer before 9th grade.

She was a racist who told me I wasn’t college material. I had As in everything except math in my middle school. She didn’t know my dad was an engineer or that my mom had a master’s degree. My parents had a very uncomfortable (for her) meeting, but she refused to put me higher than the second highest track. Every year, teachers would ask why I wasn’t in AP courses. Eight years later, I sent her my undergrad awards and my grad school offers of full rides. She responded that she wanted to motivate me.