For over five decades, Advanced Placement (AP) courses have provided demanding college-level coursework in high school. Few studies have followed AP students in college by comparing their successes to the successes of other high achieving students. The present study examined college grade point averages (GPA) of high achieving college students in natural science and English courses. The results supported the hypothesis that AP students would rate the benefit of their high school AP courses higher than the benefit of their general education courses. However, findings contradicted expectations that AP students would earn significantly higher college grades when their grades were compared to those of other high achieving students. Likewise AP students did not rate the benefit of their high school courses higher than did their high achieving peers who did not take AP courses. (Contains 1 table.)