Giving less credit for AP tests

Around here it varies from school. Some kids can enter their first year of school with enough credits to "skip" a semester or two. Financially, university/college institutions will hurt if this outlandish behavior is allowed to continue.

I have heard of this also. Some of the really top Universities (dont want to mention names) that a friends son is going to does not get credit for the science classes. he got gen ed credits i believe for them but not the science. I have heard that you cant get the higher gpa and the credits at some schools. they give one or the other. I think that may be becasue some schools dont have AP classes.
Like you cant get higher than a 4.0 but then they give you points for harder classes. Even some of the smaller privates have different rules with them.

I understand where you're coming from, but I've heard the colleges have given less credit because the high school classes are getting easier. From what I understand, it used to be that a 3, 4, or 5 earned credit. Now, most schools require a 4 or 5 while top schools only accept 5's. This is because AP's used to be for the exceptional kids, but now all kids want to take AP's, and really diminish the value of the class.

I think the message above is probably the correct guess. I have one daughter who is an AP Scholar with Distinction with 7 APs, including 5s in English, French literature, U.S. History, Biology, Psychology, a 4 in French language and a 3 in Calculus, and I do not believe she is going to get any college credit at all.

I can tell you that a Stanford professor once told me, during a discussion (or maybe argument )about why Stanford was giving credit for fewer and fewer AP classes, (in a very haughty arrogant tone but don't get me started), "No high school AP class could ever compare in difficulty or level of discourse to a course taught at Staanfoord" (imagine Oxford-like drawn-out diction on that last word). Given the fact that my children's school is full of the kids of Stanford professors, being across the street and all, I found that to be a questionable statement, but hey, he's the guy who gets the vote.