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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why wouldn’t GDS want kids to do AP exams?
They are useful at most colleges for getting a bunch of credits. You can still graduate college in 4 years but it gives you the opportunity to skip ahead and take more interesting courses.
My kid is at USC and went straight to a 300 level Economics class because he had taken AP Micro and AP Macro Economics + AP Calculus BC. USC advised him to skip the intro Econ classes which most freshmen take.[/quote]

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Many top colleges won't give credit for APs. However they will allow students to place out of some intro level classes.[/quote]

[b]This is not true…only Harvard won’t give credi[/b]t.  Every other college awards varying degrees of credit for different tests.  Other Ivy schools generally give you credit for STEM and languages but few to none humanities.

Very few kids attending top schools use AP credits to graduate early…however they do use them to take a slightly easier schedule some semesters and of course to skip intro classes.

Top flagships accept many AP scores for credit…some kids can essentially start as a sophomore and graduate early if they would like.[/quote]

When I was at Princeton, it was the same as it sounds like Harvard is now. I think you could use AP or placement tests to get into a more advanced course though or satisfy a requirement, but you had to take the same courseload regardless.[/quote]

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