AP - Advanced Placement
Notre Dame Prep offers many Advancement Placement course to help challenge our students and help them get a leg up on college placement and in some cases, college credit.
BENEFITS OF AP COURSES AND EXAMS
- Stand Out to Colleges
- “AP” on your high school transcript shows colleges you're motivated to succeed, and taking the exam demonstrates your commitment to tackle and complete college-level work.
- Earn College Credit and Placement
- Your AP score could earn you college credits before you even set foot on campus. In fact, most AP students who enroll in four-year colleges start school with some credit.
- Boost Your GPA
- AP classes are weighted so they can help bolster a student's GPA
ADVANCED PLACEMENT COURSES OFFERED AT NDP
- Biology
- Calculus A/B
- Calculus B/C
- Computer Science A
- Computer Science Principles
- English Language and Comp
- English Literature and Comp
- Environmental Science
- Physics
- Spanish Language
- Spanish Literature and Culture
- Statistics
- U.S. Government & Politics
- U.S. History
- World History
- *AP Seminar
- *AP Research
**AP Capstone is a two-year program based on two AP courses—AP Seminar and AP Research. Other AP courses teach you, in depth, about a specific subject, like biology or U.S. history. AP Seminar and AP Research are different. They focus on helping students develop academic skills they can use in any discipline, such as critical thinking and collaboration.
See Mrs. McBride for more information.
TESTING
AP testing sign up begin in September of each year. Testing occurs in May. All NDP AP students, must take the AP exams to receive weighted credit for the class. See your counselor for more information (counselor contact information is in the right column of this page).