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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] A word of caution: With some courses, the college might require that the student take [i]that college's version[/i] of the class even if the student has an AP credit in that subject. This happened with a friend's DD who loaded up on lots of APs in HS in hopes of jumping over some of the science classes at college. (And since DCUM always cares about this stuff, this student got the top score on all her AP exams--she was stellar.) The student did indeed get a lot of credits, but not every AP course translated automatically into [i]skipping[/i] a class and moving to the next level in that subject. The college somehow gave a certain amount of credit, not sure how that worked, but the student and parents were very surprised that she was also told she would have to take the college's classes in a couple of science subjects where the student had assumed that she had "done" the AP/college intro level work, and would just be placed in the next higher course in that sequence. The college told them that it wants all its students to have the same grounding in the college's way of teaching that topic, before moving to the next levels in those subjects. Just noting that no one should assume that if a kid has an AP credit for subject X, and the college recognizes AP credits, the student will get to skip a college's foundational freshman course in subject X. I realize this isn't quite the same thing as the question of using AP credits to reduce time in college. But having to take a course you thought you'd "placed out of" will affect a student's schedule.[/quote] This is a good point. I'm a biology professor. Our majors and minors have to take one or two biology electives of their choice and we do grant credit for one elective for scores of 4 and 5, but we absolutely do not grant credit for first semester introductory bio (majors and minors do gen bio 1 first semester, gen bio 2 second semester). At one point we did, but found that those who jumped straight into bio 2 their second semester after placing out of bio 1 with AP credit were absolutely [i]drowning[/i]in bio 2. Just didn't have those foundational skills/knowledge needed to succeed. It probably varies by subject, but I think science subjects especially are very very leery of granting credit that allows students to skip into a higher level.[/quote]
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