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Your personalised
AP & SAT pathway

Whether you study American, IB, British or any curriculum โ€” GlobalCompass maps your optimal AP subjects, target SAT score, university credit savings and complete US admissions strategy.

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Dream
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Curriculum
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University
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Your Plan
What is your career dream?
GlobalCompass maps backwards from your dream to the optimal AP subjects โ€” and calculates how much university tuition you can save.
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What curriculum are you currently studying?
AP exams are open to all students worldwide โ€” not just American curriculum students. This shapes how many APs we recommend.
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American curriculum
APs are part of my regular programme
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IB Diploma
Taking APs alongside or after IB
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British A-Levels
Adding APs for US university applications
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Indian CBSE / ISC
SAT plus APs for US applications
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Other international
Any other curriculum
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Self-study / homeschool
Taking APs independently
Where do you want to study?
Different US universities have very different AP credit policies โ€” some give full credit for a 3, others require a 5.
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Ivy League
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia
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MIT / Caltech / Stanford
Top STEM and research universities
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Top 20 US universities
UCLA, Berkeley, Michigan, NYU
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Liberal arts colleges
Williams, Amherst, Middlebury
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Canada
Toronto, McGill, UBC
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UK โ€” Oxford, Cambridge, LSE
AP accepted as A-Level equivalent
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Europe
Netherlands, Germany and more
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Singapore
NUS, NTU
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Top US broadly
Best fit from top US universities
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Open โ€” global
Best fit across US, UK, Europe and Asia
Mapping your dream to AP subjectsโ€ฆ
Calculating credit savings and building your complete AP strategy
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Your AP pathway plan

Your recommended AP subjects
GlobalCompass insight

GlobalCompass provides general guidance to help you plan — always verify official requirements and deadlines directly with your target university before making any decisions. GlobalCompass is not responsible for outcomes based on information that changes after publication, or for decisions made using this tool alone.