No, they were dual credit. I didn't take an AP test. A professor from the college came to our high school and taught it in a class room and on my transcript from the college has them on it with them factored into my GPA from that college.
I'm afraid I don't understand AP vs. Dual Credit, so I'm not sure what would be more beneficial (if they transferred as a grade vs. a credit) but I do know that Auburn said if they're on my transcript, they'll transfer.
Not that it matters for you now, but just for fun: It depends on how well you scored. Either way, you're getting college credit (if you score high enough in APs). If you get a 4.0 in the dual credit course, that boosts your GPA. If you get a 2.5, it would start you off at a low GPA (although 2 classes with a C is like a drop in the bucket when you consider that you graduate with like...120 credits or something like that). You'd probably get above a 3.0 your very first semester if you did well in your first classes.
If you get a 5/5 on an AP exam, it doesn't effect your GPA, but you still get college credits. You could also get a 3/5 (I think that's the lowest test score you can get in an AP class and still get college credit, if I remember correctly), still get credit (maybe not the max amount, it depends on the school), and it wouldn't affect your GPA, no matter the score.
Sometimes I wonder if I should have taken bio at my undergrad instead of AP bio so I could have had a science GPA boost from that (assuming I did well in the classes). It was way cheaper to do it in high school (even considering my Catholic school tuition), but I wasn't really thinking about how much of a 'game' grad school apps can be sometimes. In my situation, I got a 5/5 on AP Bio/English lit/Euro. I got so many classes waived (especially gen eds), but vet schools wouldn't have known the difference if I got a 3/5 since your undergrad transcript won't list your actual AP test scores. The only difference would probably have been how many gen eds I got waived, and therefore how many more I had to take in undergrad which
would have had an effect on my cGPA. Either way, my school didn't allow us to take dual credit courses, so I didn't really have options. I did have friends that were taking night/weekend courses at the local CC for actual college credit/grades during our senior year, though.
I never did get a straight answer from any vet schools regarding if, when they look at your various GPAs, they take the transferred AP credits into account when calculating a cGPA. It wouldn't make sense to do that, but I'm pretty sure my undergrad did it that way because when I calculated my own GPAs, I had to count those AP credits to get the GPA they had for me. I don't think any of the schools I applied to quite understood what I was asking tbh.
Sorry for the novel, I have finals this week and am procrastinating
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