It also can depend on the school within the university the student attends. I had two children who went to UVA. One in computer engineering the other in the college of arts and science. I do not remember exactly how many AP's they had but somewhere aroung 10-12 while in high school. with 5's on most and some 4's. The computer engineering school only took a couple - maybe only one, and for some it just meant DS started at a higher math class or somthing like than, but no credits towards his degree. The only other credits they took were for a few classes he took concurrently with GMU and he got credit for three classes if memory serves. On the other hand, DC in arts and sciences started with somewhere in the range of 27 credits based on AP exams and at least one for a concurrent hs/GMU class. It has been a few years, so the I do not remember the exact numbers, but this is in the ball park. I did not realize they were accepted differently, but it made no real difference for either of them in the end. The arts school child could have worked it to graduate earlier but that was not a goal or desire.

Cornell makes you test there regardless of how you did on the ADS to skip math or science classes.

My kid has has a learning disability, so we suggested she use her AP credits to only take three classes during her first semester giving her time to adjust to college without the pressure of taking four classes.

This strategy worked really well. She got all As the first semester, and that gave her confidence she could handle the workload. She graduated with highest honors, and got into a great grad program. I think her first semester made all the difference.

In the end, she took extra courses, so didn't need her AP credits, but just having them made her not worry about only taking three classes her first semester.

My freshman at Cornell walked in with 21 AP credits available to him in Chem (4 credits), Foreign Language (3 credits), Calc BC (8 credits), Psych (3 credits) English Literature (3 credits). He also earned 9 community college credits during HS so has the ability to graduate in 3 years if he wants to.

Anonymous wrote:Top privates are much less likely to allow a student to skip calculus, for example.

Aside, maybe, from students who took calculus at places like Thomas Jefferson, using AP tests to test out of a math class is probably a bad idea for students who will be going into a higher-level math. College math at a good university is a lot different from AP math taught be whatever zombie got AP certified.

UNC is very generous, according to my senior.

Never have them skip pre-med prerequisites. Or other health professional tracks.

State schools will be more generous. UIUC will give credit and in some cases let them fulfill gen Ed requirements enabling kid more latitude to pick courses and/ take lighter course loads as long as over “full time” threshold

WPI has generous AP credit.

My DC got credit for 9 APs at Michigan - they were all 4s and 5s. Didn't make much difference really, except being able to register earlier than classmates.

NYU used to allow up to 28 credits toward graduation for a high score on certain AP (and IB) exams. Maybe this is explained clearly on is on the website now, but the way I was able to figure out the qualifying tests and scores was to look at the Handbook for the relevant NYU school (Stern, Tisch, Tandon etc) from the prior year.

Anonymous wrote:Top privates are much less likely to allow a student to skip calculus, for example.

I think top privates often let you place out of specific requirement (Freshman English) but then require you to replace it with an elective of your choice (another English course). This is very different from some publics that give you college credit for the AP course, meaning you can graduate with fewer courses at the school. I don't know the breakdown on this though.

Top privates are much less likely to allow a student to skip calculus, for example.

Mostly public schools will award credit after the successfully completion of the first semester.

My son wants to take advantage of all his hard work on AP exams and find a few schools that are generous with AP credit. Can anyone think of a few schools like this?

I assume a few state schools fit the bill but he's considering all sorts of schools (Public & Private)