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APs are good so you can avoid the enormous survey classes Freshman year, of your university accepts them for credit. This also allows some student to get into their subject field faster OR graduate in less than 4-5 years, which saves money. Does anyone on DCUM care about saving money?[/quote]

"Ivies" and "college credit for AP classes" don't belong in the same para. Most Ivies will give you credit for only the most obscure AP subjects. For standard courses like Chemistry, your Ivy is probably going to make you take it again even if you got a 5 on the AP Chem test. (Which certainly makes things interesting for the kids in college Chem 101 who didn't take the high school AP class, as my own Ivy kid can attest using the Chem example.)

The benefit of APs for Ivy schools is--as somebody posted after you--that you can send your AP test scores of 5 in with your application. This proves that your "A"
grade in Chemistry wasn't a fluke of easy grading. Most public school kids do this when applying to the most selective colleges. As that poster also said, schools with established reputations don't need this.[/quote]

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