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[quote=Anonymous]He needs to take the tests.  That is the "real" grade in the class as far as colleges are concerned. Lots of schools offer APs and class grading standards vary from school to school and sometimes from teacher to teacher.  Most (all?) selective schools will want to see the AP score.

If money is at all an issue the testing fee can be waived.

Now - as to college credit - that differs from school to school.  A top Ivy, for example, basically has a freshman class full of kids who took multiple APs and IBs.  They are used primarily for placements.  At say good large publics - they will typically give credits but the student may still have to take particular classes. So, a 5 on the AP Chem exam may be good for 3 science credits but the kid still has to take a college lab science class for gen ed.

What we found with our oldest who went to big state school is that the APs (5) mostly meant that he did not have to take general electives to fill out credit requirements.  He still has to take college level lit, science and math classes so in the end his 14 credits that he walked in with probably was a net savings of maybe 6 credits. From an educational perspective there is value to taking those kind of general elective courses. But at $400 or more per credit hour there is a real economic value to being able to use those credit hours.

With our daughter at a small private the APs were more for placement purposes. No credits were given but their fee plan was one of those where the cost was the same in the range of 12 to 18 credits.  [/quote]

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