I had such high test scores that I actually tested out of needing to take college level English classes. When I go to apply to graduate I was told that I didn’t have enough credits and I explained that’s because I didn’t need to take English. I was then informed you still need a certain amount of credits to graduate so while I didn’t need to take English I needed to take something. I was forced to take a bowling class over the weekends to make up the credits in time in order to graduate. You pay for each credit a class is worth so I felt like that was such a waste of money.
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.
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u/kkkilla 1d ago
I had such high test scores that I actually tested out of needing to take college level English classes. When I go to apply to graduate I was told that I didn’t have enough credits and I explained that’s because I didn’t need to take English. I was then informed you still need a certain amount of credits to graduate so while I didn’t need to take English I needed to take something. I was forced to take a bowling class over the weekends to make up the credits in time in order to graduate. You pay for each credit a class is worth so I felt like that was such a waste of money.