<p>So, I've been silently fuming at Georgetown. Why? Because they like to see that you're taking the hardest classes offered at your school (aka "college level"), yet, they won't give you credit for it-unless it's AP classes-not including U.S History.</p>
<p>At my school, people have the option of taking AP or SUPA (Syracuse University Project Advance) classes. I chose to take all SUPA classes with the exception of AP Spanish either because I wasn't interested in the subject matter covered in AP (in the case of AP English), wasn't qualifed, (AP Calc, I took SUPA Calc instead) or the AP classes weren't offered (SUPA Public Affairs and SUPA Econ). </p>
<p>I knew going into it that my college of choice, whichever that was, may not accept SUPA credit because it's taught at the high school and not a university but still, my teachers and guidance counselors were like "You should pay for it, it's such a good deal! College credit can be so expensive! Push your case when you get there!". Mom fell for it too. There went $2000 of college savings.</p>
<p>Although I feel much more prepared for college than if I had not taken SUPA, I feel a bit jipped. I feel jipped by SU in charging tuition so early in the game when no one knows where they're going to college and if the credit will be accepted. Jipped by Georgetown by pushing for such high performance and not rewarding it in the way of credit because it's taught at the high school even though it's a college level course. Do they expect me to take a bus to SU everyday? Hell no. Despite all this, i feel straight up stupid for paying for all that crap. Lesson learned.</p>
<p>Are you kidding! I took SUPA Span 201 and Econ something-0-something because APs aren't available at my school in those...that's so annoying! Especially since I was also planning on not paying and convinced to by the teachers....We should sign a petition (shortest one in the world)!! </p>
<p>But seriously, they're SU credits on an SU transcript, they should be transferable!</p>
<p>True. I definately will be sending in my transcript but I'm sure all the deans know it's "Project Advance". They should really consider changing the name, it makes it sound like a summer camp or something.</p>
<p>Obviously I don't know anything about SUPA, but if the courses count towards high school graduation, that would be why the credits don't transfer.</p>
<p>I sort of take back what I said. That's always what I've been told (if it counts towards high school graduation, the credits won't transfer) but reading the relevant part of the Undergraduate Bulletin, I'm not sure that's true.</p>
<p>AiHy, I think you're right. I took two courses at a community college (Art History) and got high school credit for them, therefore I could not transfer them and get out of a HUMW requirement here.</p>
<p>Yeah...try going through 4 years of tortuous IB and getting less credit than you would have if you had just taken a few AP courses here and there. Pretty much everyone except for AP kids get screwed over in credits. Because standard level IB courses aren't as hard as AP courses, right? Wrong.</p>
<p>Cochrynn, that's not necessarily true. I took 12 AP tests (and got mostly 4s, some 3s and 5s) and got credit for only 3 of them. (2 of them were elective credit, one was a history credit). </p>
<p>I don't know anything about IB, but AP definitely did not equally a ticket out of classes for me (and I don't know what kind of transfer credit you can get in from the COL or MSB, but I imagine it is the same as the SFS)...At least (hopefully) the torturous four years paid off with some good study skills for college.</p>
<p>Manderz1, it actually must be somewhat different for the College, unless it's a matter of the score. I also took 12 APs, but mostly 5's, some 4's, and one 3. The College gave me credit for eight of those (25 credits total). The APs I didn't get credit for, as I remember, were the second English, the 3 in Physics, and US History. I can't remember what the other was.</p>
<p>I still think that IB standard level courses should count for something. Especially considering all the extra internal assessments and stuff you have to do for them. Nothing I can do about it now but I tell everyone to take a couple AP courses instead of IB and actually enjoy high school.</p>