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[quote=Anonymous]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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