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[quote=Anonymous]If your child is hoping/planing to go to a specific college, you may want to look at the AP credit that college gives.  For example, MIT (where I went) does not give ANY credit for Biology, Chemistry, or Computer Science AP exams, even for a 5.  MIT lets you out of Calculus I for a 5 on the AP Calc BC, but not for any lower score (I got that credit and started in Calc II, and it was way, way harder than my high school's multivariable calc, and I wish I'd just started with Calc I at MIT).  For physics, you have to get a 5 on [u][b]both[/b][/u] of the Physics C exams, or no credit at all, and the credit is only for mechanics (Physics I), not electromagnetism (Physics II).  Any 5s on humanities exams gives only general credit, which doesn't help for anything in the long run, although the English language/literature exams get you out of the writing test taken during orientation.  So, my 10 APs, 7 of which had 5s (the other 3 I studied for on my own without a class and got 4s), got me out of only Calc I, and I wish I'd taken the class anyway.  For the record, MIT requires EVERY student, regardless of major, to take Calc I and II, Physics I and II, Bio, Chem, and a 4-class humanities concentration.[/quote]

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