How much college credit did you have upon graduating high school?
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Anonymous
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12 AP classes.
One in 9th Three in 10th Four in 11th Four in 12th |
Anonymous
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
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0
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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
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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. |
Anonymous
| None. |
Anonymous
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I graduated in 1993, took 4 AP classes my senior year:
AP Chem--7 credits (plus placing out of an additional 1 credit lab class) AP Physics--3 credits AP Calc (AB)--4 credits AP American History--I only got a 3 on the exam so no credits for that |
Anonymous
| 1 year. Almost got a 4th year masters but switched majors instead. |
Anonymous
| More than I could count. |
Anonymous
| About 60 credits. |