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Re: To go to Championships...or not....
For some schools/majors/courses, your AP credit might be accepted and be enough (which means do take the exams seriously!), but this isn't true for all courses. The best bet is probably to talk to your advisor to get their advice on which classes you should probably retake, and which ones you don't need to. I say this because going against my advisor's and MIT's advice about which math course to take my freshman fall was probably my biggest academic mistake in college thus far - learn from my mistakes.
(MIT's advice for incoming freshmen is that if you got a 4 or a 5 on the BC Calc exam, you should skip single-variable calculus and go straight into multi-variable calculus. I was qualified to get the credit, but figured MIT is really hard, and maybe I didn't actually know the material as well as I thought I did. I went against the advice of MIT and my freshman advisor, and signed up for an accelerated course that reviewed single-variable and then taught all of multi-variable before the spring semester. It was a mistake- I was bored out of my mind during the review, and got nothing out of it. Then when multi-variable came around, it was all new material an accelerated pace which was just a little too much for me to handle. I would have learned the material better if I took their advice and went straight into multi-variable and learned it at a normal pace. Also, the A I got in single-variable didn't even count for anything... our first semester grades are hidden.)
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