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Originally Posted by normaldude
Sounds like a great program, but I wouldn't put too much weight on the college credit. No university has to accept the college credit.
This is why AP exams are done during a student's senior year in high school. At that point, the student knows where they're going, and they can get written confirmation that they'll be able to use their college credits earned from AP exams. In the summer before the student's freshman year, the university will then confirm exactly how many AP credits will qualify.
So I highly doubt that your daughter can go to a school like Harvard, and insist that they must accept these college credits that she earned from some science camp 7 years ago.
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If your daughter majored in liberal arts, I think the credits would work.
If she majored in pre-med the liklihood the credits would transfer is less.
I was an engineering major and very few people could transfer any science credits as freshman- physcis must be calculus based, chemistry needed to be broken up between organic, inorganic and environmental.
In addition the physics eeded to be mechanics in one course and electric in another.
My college was VERY particular in this regard.
The most common classes to transfer in were economics, calculus (even the calc was broken up differently, but it still transferred), and foreign languages (I knew one person which did this).
If you want to think college credit, the summer of her junior year, have her take economics at a local community college, then use that as the HS course and get college credit for it.
I agree with poster above that not all colleges will accept the credits in any case you or I mentioned.