I’m pretty bitter about both in my case.

I took AP calculus, biology, and physics in high school and got full credit for each. Went to Purdue and already had my science req covered and got to enter straight into calc II, (I also took discrete math later which will be relevant).

Long story short, 2 years and money problems later, I dropped out and worked for 8 years. When I finally went back to school, I went to Ivy Tech and basically had to restart from scratch. Literally the only credit they honored from Purdue was my Abnormal Psych elective course. And they also honored my Calc AP. So I had to retake Calc II, and Physics I and II. Also discrete math for no apparent reason as nothing was different about it. They didn’t honor the calc II course because their calc I was more like Calc 1.5, and calc II was more like Calc 2.5. So basically my AP calc and calc II together only covered their calc I class. They didn’t honor the Physics AP credits because it wasnt calc-based even though after taking it, that only led to a meaningful difference for like one chapter.

So, I didnt really mind taking the courses again from an academic sense. It was nice to have a refresher for calc II before taking calc III later. And I love Physics in general. But they didn’t offer physics on my local campus on the semester I needed it because I started in the spring but it was also a prerequisite for all of my higher level core courses. If I waited to take them on that campus, it would push back my graduation by a year. So, I had to sign up for them at another campus that was 70(!!!) miles away. For two semesters straight, I had to drive my happy ass 90 minutes to class, for 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of labs, back to back, and then drive the 90 minutes back home again. Twice a week. 16 hours of commute, lecture and lab a week for a course that was ultimately almost identical to what I had already studied, and ultimately had zero bearing on my actual degree.

What makes it worse? After finishing my Associates at Ivy Tech, I went to Norther Kentucky University to complete my Bachelor’s. And they honored almost everything. All my AP classes. Almost all my Purdue Credits. And almost all my Ivy Tech Credits. So, I had retaken Calc II and Physics I and II for no damn reason in the end. I did enter NKU with my math minor almost complete at least though. I only had to take 3 more math classes for it, 2 of which were already required for my Core CS classes anyway.

But the one class they didn’t honor? From either Purdue or Ivy Tech? Discrete Math. No idea why. I took that shit for a third goddamn time, and it was the same damn shit as before. sigh. Y’all wanna talk about the Seven Bridges of Königsberg?