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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid will take it. He is taking precalculus through dual enrollment and it’s more likely the school will accept the credit (and acceleration) if he passes the AP exam.

I don’t care much about the $100 or sticking it to the man at College Board.[/quote]

Isn't dual enrollment through the community college?  If so, what does passing the AP exam have to do with a future college accepting the community college credits?[/quote]

Colleges are not going to provide credit for a high school, non-college level course; that is just wasting your money. [/quote]

The same can be said about AP Physics 1 & 2.

You may get some college credit but not for majors that require higher math. It might be worth it for a humanities kid applying to a lower tier college.

Not sure $100 is that huge a waste of money.[/quote]

I think you could get credit for a non-major science class for AP physics 1 or 2 (what we called “physics for poets” in the ‘90s when I went to college). But you won’t get credit for AP precalc anywhere because that’s not a college-level class at all. [/quote]

It won’t matter much for a student required to take 4 years of math in high school, because then precalculus is a given.

There are states that only require three years of math in HS, eg California, so University of California and Cal State may accept precalculus as a degree requirement for some majors.[/quote]

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