Darn, i guess the colleges didn't receive my AP iscores, now they want me to take the Subject A, what to do?!

[erikiksaz]

I don't have the score sheets of my AP tests anymore, i've lost them. I thought these scores were automatically transferred. Well anyways, what can i do?

(and yes, i passed em with at least a 3)

 

[godmare]

Are you sure that the school in question even accepts AP tests as credits? Are you sure that, even if they do, that '3' is acceptable to them?

Call your HS guidance office about getting the records, I don't know who administers that.

 

[LeeTJ]

don't take the class if you KNOW you can get the scores sent in.

do you HAVE to take the class this term?? or can you opt to take it later?

 

[Sukhoi]

Just resend the scores..

 

[erikiksaz]

Originally posted by: godmare
Are you sure that the school in question even accepts AP tests as credits? Are you sure that, even if they do, that '3' is acceptable to them?

Call your HS guidance office about getting the records, I don't know who administers that.

YEs, they accept 3s. It stated that on the letter--anything 3 and above was acceptable.

do you HAVE to take the class this term?? or can you opt to take it later?

Passing the English Comp exam basically exempts you from taking the Subject A test. So i might as well not take any extra tests!


Crap, can't believe i totally forgot about asking my school to resend the scores. I've always thought there was a "higher administration" that takes care of stuff like that

 

[shopbruin]

you have to call the collegeboard/testing people/whatever to send the scores. there WILL be a fee associated with it.

 

[Sukhoi]

Originally posted by: freesia39
you have to call the collegeboard/testing people/whatever to send the scores. there WILL be a fee associated with it.

Yep, your high school doesn't do it.

 

[chiwawa626]

The subject a requirement also says if you got above a C in a college level english class...Does that mean since i got a B in English AP, i would meet the subject a requirements? The paper is so vague, it has little info on who to contact...do i talk to the college im gonna go to, my highscchool, ets, or the uc people...?

 

[JW310]

Best thing to do would be to talk to the people in charge of AP credits at the college you're going to be going to.

JW

 

[ROTC1983]

You can call the AP people and request to have your scores sent to the school and yourself

 

[silverpig]

I'd just take the class anyways. AP != college level courses, and you don't actually get CREDIT for the course, you just get to skip it. Seeing as how you are required to do a certain number of credits for a degree, you aren't saving any money, and you're only putting yourself behind all the people in the next level class who have taken the first year course.

 

[Sukhoi]

Originally posted by: silverpig
I'd just take the class anyways. AP != college level courses, and you don't actually get CREDIT for the course, you just get to skip it. Seeing as how you are required to do a certain number of credits for a degree, you aren't saving any money, and you're only putting yourself behind all the people in the next level class who have taken the first year course.

Completely not true. I have full credit for every course I skipped, and it was well worth it.

 

[Storm]

Originally posted by: Sukhoi

Originally posted by: silverpig
I'd just take the class anyways. AP != college level courses, and you don't actually get CREDIT for the course, you just get to skip it. Seeing as how you are required to do a certain number of credits for a degree, you aren't saving any money, and you're only putting yourself behind all the people in the next level class who have taken the first year course.

Completely not true. I have full credit for every course I skipped, and it was well worth it.

I agree I know a lot of ppl that got AP credits to take the place of courses.

 

[teddymines]

Just take the course, attend about 50% of the classes, and score an A to boost your GPA. Unless the cost per credit is very high.

 

[agnitrate]

Originally posted by: Sukhoi

Originally posted by: silverpig
I'd just take the class anyways. AP != college level courses, and you don't actually get CREDIT for the course, you just get to skip it. Seeing as how you are required to do a certain number of credits for a degree, you aren't saving any money, and you're only putting yourself behind all the people in the next level class who have taken the first year course.

Completely not true. I have full credit for every course I skipped, and it was well worth it.

Same here. I received a total of 1/4 of the credits I need to graduate via AP tests.

-silver

 

[dquan97]

Originally posted by: erikiksaz

Originally posted by: godmare
Are you sure that the school in question even accepts AP tests as credits? Are you sure that, even if they do, that '3' is acceptable to them?

Call your HS guidance office about getting the records, I don't know who administers that.

YEs, they accept 3s. It stated that on the letter--anything 3 and above was acceptable.

do you HAVE to take the class this term?? or can you opt to take it later?

Passing the English Comp exam basically exempts you from taking the Subject A test. So i might as well not take any extra tests!


Crap, can't believe i totally forgot about asking my school to resend the scores. I've always thought there was a "higher administration" that takes care of stuff like that

Yup, that person in "higher administration" is you = )

 

[dquan97]

Originally posted by: erikiksaz

Originally posted by: godmare
Are you sure that the school in question even accepts AP tests as credits? Are you sure that, even if they do, that '3' is acceptable to them?

Call your HS guidance office about getting the records, I don't know who administers that.

YEs, they accept 3s. It stated that on the letter--anything 3 and above was acceptable.

do you HAVE to take the class this term?? or can you opt to take it later?

Passing the English Comp exam basically exempts you from taking the Subject A test. So i might as well not take any extra tests!


Crap, can't believe i totally forgot about asking my school to resend the scores. I've always thought there was a "higher administration" that takes care of stuff like that

Yup, that person in "higher administration" is you = )

 

[Codewiz]

Originally posted by: silverpig
I'd just take the class anyways. AP != college level courses, and you don't actually get CREDIT for the course, you just get to skip it. Seeing as how you are required to do a certain number of credits for a degree, you aren't saving any money, and you're only putting yourself behind all the people in the next level class who have taken the first year course.

Thats funny....my fiancee was a sophomore when she started college because she had so many AP credits. They do count.

 

[GoSharks]

i assume that you are talking about the UC system. if you read the back of the letter they sent (the one with all the instructions on it), you will notice that they provide distinct instructions on what to do if you have passed the ap test but are still being asked to take the subject a test on may 10. basically you need to have your scores sent by the collegeboard to the uc school you will be matriculating to next year and then call the number they have printed on the paper to tell them to take you off the list.

and the subject a test is basically a placement test for english - IIRC, it gets you out of remidial classes which you do not want to be taking.

 

[NutBucket]

AP's most definitely count as credit. I got 40 units out of it. I had retake 4 of those but oh well. That's a nice year of school saved (though its still gonna take me more then 4 years)

 

[henmaster]

If you didn't fill in the college code for this school when you took the test, then they probably never got sent the scores. Unless you called up the college board later and told them to send your AP transcript to the college. So if you never did that, you should now.

 

[brtspears2]

Resend. If it doesnt get though by May 10th... heres a fun website from your future school
Reap the stupidty of the subject A

If you dont happen to pass before you goto UCR, there will be plenty of classes for you to take to prepare for a retest. And there will be plenty of petitions to sign to try to make the UC revoke the "subjective A" exam. Its no big deal, easy test, keep your thoughts in one flow, on topic, and with the usual good spelling and stuff.

 

[Hector13]

Originally posted by: teddymines
Just take the course, attend about 50% of the classes, and score an A to boost your GPA. Unless the cost per credit is very high.

I completely agree with this!! I don't know what school you are going to, but it sounds like one of the UCs. I went to Cal and I regret not taking "College Writing" or whatever the subject A class is called. Instead, I had to take English 1A for some stupid requirement (I was an engineering major). In any case, the english class was a breeze, but I saw some of the stuff that the College Writing people did and it was a joke (like "find the verb in this sentence" and what not).

Now the upshot is that not only is College Writing easy, but it fulfills the same requirement as "English 1A" did and it was 6 (yes SIX) units vs 4 for English 1a (vs 3 for most engineering classes). That would be a huge boost to your gpa...

 

[Dudd]

Originally posted by: Hector13

Originally posted by: teddymines
Just take the course, attend about 50% of the classes, and score an A to boost your GPA. Unless the cost per credit is very high.

I completely agree with this!! I don't know what school you are going to, but it sounds like one of the UCs. I went to Cal and I regret not taking "College Writing" or whatever the subject A class is called. Instead, I had to take English 1A for some stupid requirement (I was an engineering major). In any case, the english class was a breeze, but I saw some of the stuff that the College Writing people did and it was a joke (like "find the verb in this sentence" and what not).

Now the upshot is that not only is College Writing easy, but it fulfills the same requirement as "English 1A" did and it was 6 (yes SIX) units vs 4 for English 1a (vs 3 for most engineering classes). That would be a huge boost to your gpa...

Wow, I did that stuff in middle school if not before. Let's hear it for high expectations!

 

[bUnMaNGo]

hah... I got kicked out of UCR after 4 quarters (supposed to be 3 quarters, but I got an extension) for not passing Subject A... they wouldn't let me use my junior college English 1A credit... funny thing is that when I transferred to UCSC, they let me use my English 1A credit to fulfill my Subject A requirement.