u/ErekwithaD1

Let me tell you a story: a long long time ago a coalition of elite universities created what is now known as college board and also created the ap program. It was originally meant for the top 1% of students at elite preparatory schools, but soon students from normal public schools realized that college intro content was not that hard and thus AP exploded in popularity. This meant that highschoolers would not have to relearn content they already knew in college and as a plus saved money.

This was a perfect system saving thousands of dollars and ensuring that high schoolers can actually get to classes they deserved to get put into. However, this system was too perfect for the universities. Who right after ap got extremely popular suspiciously began saying AP classes did not match their courses anymore and at first started raising the score to get credits from 3 to 4 and then from 4 to 5 but eventually just stopped accepting credit at all.

Let me tell you another thing about AP it gives credits for 100$ where universities would charge for thousands of dollars, so it is suspicious when more students than ever started saving money and not giving money to universities that universities like Dartmouth started pulling out biased studies to stop AP acceptance at all. They always used flawed reasoning to abolish ap acceptance when the real reason is always money and now AP is suffering more than ever in states without strong articulation agreements.

Universities are now devaluing APs in several ways:

• The most obvious path that most elite universities are doing is not accepting AP at all eg Dartmouth, Harvard, and Caltech they might use it for placement but they turned against their own creation for money so the students are forced to spend 4 years of tution (even though they already have large endowments).
• Another way is not accepting certain APs which I understand for new or niche courses like AP African American Studies or AP Art History but some colleges don't accept popular APs like psychology or chemistry
• The other way they devalue AP credits is requiring a 4 or 5 for any credit at all which means it is almost now impossible to get meaningful credit with a 3 nowadays even at state universities
• The 4th path is the way I hate the most reducing the quality of credit the ap will get you like giving only algebra based physics credits for ap physics cs or a general elective for ap english lit. This is how most public universities in articulation states get away with not accepting ap.

But why am I talking about this because recently my state's state university University of Utah has recently taken two horrible decisions regarding AP Stem. First they will no longer give second semester of general chemistry for AP Chemistry even if you get a 5, you will just get first semester even though AP Chem's curriculum contains second semester gen chem. Secondly and most horrible for engineers they will no longer give calc based physics credits for AP Physics Cs like they will give the same algebra based credit you get from 2, for E&M and 1 for Mech

If a low level state school becomes this stingy who will follow suit will my preferred University BYU start denying useful ap credits too. Will the only ap friendly colleges be local community colleges?

Guess what I am saying is WE NEED STRONGER ARTICULATION AGREEMENTS perhaps a national one that targets national funding. Your credit is not worth more because you professor does a special lecture

My school does not have enough students for each of the individual ap physics classes next year so they either have to cancel one of the 3 options or do like a combined course in which you can choose which exams you want to take: 1, 2, c:mech or c: e&m. But I am confused my ap physics teacher says he doesn't know much details about how the course is going to be run but it won't be like a self study hall because there will be assignments but he doesn't know what assignments he will assign because there are 4 unique exams

Has anyone been in a similar predicament?

If this comes to be should I take 2, c:mech and c: e and m exams or just stick with the c exams?

This goes without saying but I love this sub. Out of all the communities on Reddit, this is the one sub where everyone truly listens, respects each other's opinions, and tries their best to help with classes.

Now that everyone is finished with ap exams and summer is on the horizon I would like to wish everyone a nice vacation. When the AP scores are released on July 6th, I hope everyone gets straight 5's! Everyone worries they will do worse than they actually end up doing so be confident in yourselves: the exams are often graded more leniently than you think.

I hope next year everyone (except for the graduating seniors) will take APs again and do well on them just like they did this year.

Last ap exams of the year. Hope y'all get 5's

I hope y'all can get 5's. If you want last minute study for calculus I would recommend khan academy I went from not knowing calculus at all and having intermediate algebra skills, to becoming a calculus and algebra expert just by using it. Anyways good luck

Now that college board finally released frq for 2026 and specifically version J: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap26-frq-physics-1.pdf, I can finally talk about them. I looked at FRQ 3, you guys complained only getting to use a meter to find the coefficient of kinetic friction but that is literally the only thing you needed it is a basic conservation of energy problem E_i =E_f the initial energy is just gravitational potential using close earth approximation E_i =mgh and the final energy is completely dissipated by the work caused by friction during the rough horizontal section mgh = mgμd canceling mg from both sides h=μd it shows we just need to vary and plot height of the ramp on the vertical axis and measure and plot stopping distance on the horizontal axis and the slope is just the coefficient of kinetic friction

I hope y'all can get 5's. I have taken ap Chinese before, the trick is to memorize a lot of Chinese presentations. Anyways good luck!!!

I hope y'all can get 5's and yes I am posting this every day until the ap exams end

This going to be the last weekend before ap week I hope everyone is prepared or if not prepare themselves this weekend, I believe everyone who paid attention in class and got good grade can get a 5. Post which aps you are doing so I can see which college credits you are going to get. Wish Everyone a good AP and much college credits 😊😊😊.