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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Name the school where your kids from the Big 5 or wherever are actually attending that gives college credit for AP exams.  Like real deal credit.  Back in the day you could use it graduate early etc which I did.  Then colleges caught on and are not interested in losing tuition.  I understand you can use AP exams to demonstrate how smart your are in math or a language to get you into a higher level class but that is not the same thing as an actual “college credit.”[/quote]

Does Princeton count?  My kid received actual, bona fide college credit for AP Calc and Physics C.

Not like anyone is graduating early, and they don’t accept many…but yes these are credit courses.[/quote]

Helpful. Didn’t know Princeton was still doing this and surprised they are.   Luckily, we are all going to Princeton. [/quote]

For the Ivy schools, only Harvard and Dartmouth award no credit.  For the rest, it is a very limited number of APs, but tend to be clustered in the Math/Stem and languages.[/quote]

That’s incorrect for Dartmouth. It offers credit for APs, however it won’t reduce the total number of credits required for graduation. That means that students can skip some intro level courses their freshman year.

“Dartmouth offers Credit on Entrance = Prematriculation credit recognized for achievement on a test* that may be equivalent to a course, however starting with students entering in fall 2014 it does not reduce the number of credits (35) required for graduation. (*Examples of tests include Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), A-Levels, SATs and local placement tests.)”[/quote]

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