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

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For some people using the AP credit in college may be the right move, however I personally am extremely grateful I chose not to. It gave me a chance to get used to a college schedule while learning material I was already familiar with. It allowed me to really get acclimated to the atmosphere of college classes. Many students I knew struggled with the first few classes and I would guess only about 40-50% of the students that started as engineers in my class freshman year graduated with me.

Like I said it may not be right for everyone, but its something to consider once your heading towards college.

EDIT: For clarity, I am referring to classes that are in your direct curriculum. So for engineers, calculus, physics, chemistry etc.

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Given we are going to a "late" FRC regional this year and we have some students going to the VRC championships the following week, we negotiated with our principal that we would only go to Championships if we managed to win our Regional.

Otherwise our April would look like:
Week #1: Regional
Week #2: VRC Championship
Week #3: Spring Break
Week #4: FRC Championship

Our principal wasn't really happy about the missed class time prospects
At my original high school, there was a hardwired policy that if you missed 15 days of school (excused or unexcused), you were considered absent for that semester and would receive an "I" in all of your classes because you had missed enough school to be considered absent. One of my friends skied competitively, and hit that 15 day limit. He was also the valedictorian... so that policy got bent a little bit. Missing class time isn't always the end of the world.

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I understand your point, but can you afford to pay (in both money and time) to take a class when you have already received credit for it?
$500 in AP fees are saving me $50,000 in college tuition... I'm firmly in the "take the credit" camp.
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