AP credits for college credits

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So, I think you may be confused about some things with AP that I'd like to clarify.

AP COURSES give you high school credit (and extra grade points for your GPA).  AP EXAMS give you college credit.  You can do one, or the other, or both.

If you take an AP course, no college will give you any kind of credit for it, because it's just a high school course - advanced, but not anything special in and of itself.  You do get an extra grade point, so that's a bonus.  If you pass an AP exam, no high school will give you credit for that.  They want to know that you did the semester or year's worth of work in the subject.  And, there's nothing that happens with the exam towards your grade, because the exams are taken in May and scores come out in July, after school is over.

Ok, that makes more sense. When I wrote the post, I meant it for older adults, not teens in high school. If you use Acellus with a good book to prepare for AP exams and Modern States for the AP and/or CLEP exams, thats a sizable chunk of college credit for very little cost.

When people think of AP courses they think of high school, but there is is no age limit to taking AP exams. I'll check with TESU and see if they accept AP courses and/or exams.

So Modern States does not give you a voucher for AP exams - so it's $94 plus testing fees if the school charges (which they can).

And like others have said, trying to find somewhere to take the exam is going to be an issue.  If homeschooled kids across the country are having trouble finding somewhere, imagine how much trouble you'll have as an adult, needing access to campus during the school day.

TESU WILL take AP exams for sure, I have seen evals with AP credit.  All you have to do is check the ACE database to see what is ACE-recommended.  But since you're thinking TESU (or one of the other Big 3 schools), then there is very little reason to go to the effort to take an AP exam when there are many other easier/cheaper/better ways to get credit.