That's why you apply based on the school's credit!
I narrowed my choices down regionally and took the best scholarship and AP credit combo. I had one three in AP Spanish. That class gave me 8 hours, more than any of my 5s. Other schools ... Not so much. Most of the ivies don't give you any credit, they'll only advance you. I started as a junior with some 50+ credits and graduated with a BS & minor in three 20 credit semesters.
Never had to touch gen-ed maths, science, English. Literally didn't need a calculator in college, highschool was so much more challenging stem-wise. I took one honors seminar and decided it wasn't worth paying for another semester to finish the program and only worked towards my degree requirements. I did take a few extra electives for a backcountry ski trip and taekwondo, but after full-time (I think 12 credits/semester), extra classes were free.
Probably the most lame degree I could've gotten, but the work experience I got the two years following was worth 10x my time in college, and I have no debt.
It’s called Advanced Placement I believe. These classes are essentially college level classes. You pay to take the AP test, which can give you college credit for it, depending on the school. You don’t pay if you take the class without the test, but then you don’t get the college credit. Each AP class is associated with a local/nearby college. The college my high school was on a quarter system, rather than a semester system. A year at college in quarter system is 3 quarters (the third is summer), while the semester system has 2 semesters. So 1 quarter class gave me the credit in Public Speaking, but my college was on a semester system so they needed to see my syllabus to give me the credit. Most schools are on the semester system but Oregon is weird.
I transferred 35 ap credits to college and it fucked me over so hard. I didn’t get to take a lot of college level classes that I wanted to because “I had taken them already”. Didn’t want to take the more advanced classes because I was “only a freshman”… and by that point I went the wrong direction.
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u/atatassault47 1d ago
Too late now, but scoring high on AP tests in high school gives you transferrable credits.