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Is it worth taking AP Classes senior year?

Do you get college credit for taking senior year ap classes?

  • Just wondering whether taking ap classes senior yr gives you college credit (if you pass the ap exam of course). My school allows you to get college credit for up to 8 semesters of ap and i want to make the most of it. I need 4 more semesters and only one more yr left. so i was wondering if they allow it. Also, is it bad to take pointless classes like cooking and teacher assistant. Will colleges look at that and think that you're wasting your time? im planning to go to a UC college in california.

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    Usually yes, provided you pass the AP exam with a certain score (usually a 5, but sometimes a 4). It ultimately depends on the college which courses they allow and score they require. If you want to get a head start on college credits and think you're gonna have time to spare your senior year, why not take a couple classes at your local community college while you're still in high school? It would show ambition and get an elective or foreign language out of the way. And it's not very common for high school students, so you'd stand out more. If you do it, though, make sure you take a class you find interesting and manageable with a teacher who wouldn't mind working with a high schooler. Your community college grades wouldn't affect your highschool GPA, but you do have to report them when applying to any college after that, and they'd follow you for the rest of your college career, so you can't blow them off.

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Well yes they will count as long as you pass your ap exam with the score your college wants. You will just put the college your going to on your ap exam packet and it will send them to the college automatically once the its scored. Colleges do like to see a challenging senior course load v. someone who took 5 cooking classes senior year.

No. AP classes are suppose to be classes taught at a college level and most students take them to prepare for the AP exam plus it looks good on a college application. But the class itself has nothing to do with college credit. It's passing the AP exam for that subject that gets you the college credit, not the class itself. If you are knowledgeable enough in a subject, you can even take the AP exam without the taking the class first.

Depending on the school you are going to, the college may or may not accept AP hours, or they may accept them up to a certain limit of hours. The UC colleges should accept AP credit. Also, it should not matter what year you take your AP classes; no matter when you take them, all that should matter is what score you receive. At my school you can receive between 1 to 4 semester hours per AP test passed, though the average is 3 (as in you will have credit for a class that would have taken 3 hours out of a week, usually one hour every MWF). However you must receive a 4 or a 5 in order to receive credit. You really just have to check individually with each college, since even with in the UC colleges I'm sure there is some variation. If you are really passionate about cooking, or teaching, and can portray that passion in an essay for your college application, then no, the class would probably not look bad. However, in most cases, this might look like slacking off.

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