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Re: To go to Championships...or not....

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Originally Posted by JamesCH95 View Post
If you're smart enough to really place out of a college class, the AP exam will be a breeze, and, even if you could get a 4 or 5 on an AP exam, you'll still want to take the classes again in college to get an easy A and to reinforce your academic fundamentals.
Classes I could have done without in college as an Electrical Engineer at Georgia Tech:
  • Psychology (the epitome of a chaotic cycle of conundrums that are never solved )
  • U.S. History (it happened one way in high school; it still happened the same way in college)
  • U.S. Government (Too centric on historical implications on current law; If I wanted to become lawyer I wouldn't have chosen EE)
  • World Literature (True, I'm a terrible communicator in many respects -- but 1,000 years of historical literature in 3 months cannot fix that)
  • Calculus I (was everything I learned in [non-AP] high school Calculus)

That's an entire semester of credits! Oh the things I could have done with an extra three months of time during college (perhaps studied abroad in Lorraine, France)! I would have much rather taken an AP Exam and exempted out of those classes (bear in mind that I've been really good at Math since a very young age, so YMMV).
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