<p>Hi, I'm about to take the AP Chinese exam, so I looked up the mit policy on such exams..here's what I found:
"Advanced Placement credit cannot be used to satisfy any part of the HASS Requirement. If you receive a score of 5 on the College Board Advanced Placement tests listed below, you will receive 9 general elective units for each exam, applicable as unrestricted electives only.
* Chinese Language and Culture"
My question is...what exactly does the 9 general elective units get me out of?Language and history classes?for how long?and does it save me money?
Sorry if my questions are dumb :P
Thanks for your reply.
PS:I also plan on Taking Japanese classes at MIT..how will it clash with the AP Chinese credits?If at all?
Thank you again!</p>
<p>To get a degree from MIT, you need to complete 180 units outside the General Institute Requirements. The credit from a 5 on the AP exam can be applied toward this requirement. It could save you money, if you had enough elective credit to finish your degree a semester or a year early, but probably won’t – students usually take 4 classes per term, but it doesn’t cost more money to take more.</p>
<p>So the general elective units aren’t for placement, just for getting general credit toward an MIT degree.</p>
<p>There wouldn’t be any problem taking Japanese classes at MIT after taking AP Chinese.</p>
<p>The way the HASS requirement works, by the way, is that you need to take 8 HASS classes at MIT. That averages to 1 per semester. One thing that I didn’t really realize til I got here was that HASS APs and HASS-esque classes taken at other colleges <em>do not</em> fulfill this requirement. </p>
<p>Also, MIT doesn’t have a language requirement or anything like that. You just have to take 8 HASSes, and you need to make sure you cover all your bases in terms of HASS-Ds (HASS-distribution classes; you need to take 3 HASS classes from different categories on a certain list that you’ll receive with your Next Big Mailing) and you need to have a HASS concentration. AP Chinese can’t get you out of any of that (though it could put you into a higher level of Chinese, if you plan on taking that here.)</p>
<p>oo ok, thank you mollie and montagne!</p>
<p>*HASS APs and HASS-esque classes taken at other colleges <em>do not</em> fulfill this requirement.
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<p>“Transfer credit awarded for study at other institutions may be applied toward the HASS Requirement as follows: 9 units or more approved with the number of an MIT HASS Elective subject or approved as a block of HASS Elective units.”</p>
<p>[School</a> of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences : Undergraduate Studies : HASS Requirement : Distribution Requirement](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/shass/undergraduate/hass-req/transfer-credit/index.shtml]School”>http://web.mit.edu/shass/undergraduate/hass-req/transfer-credit/index.shtml)</p>
<p>It won’t cover your HASS-D’s, but it’ll definitely cut out some classes for you.</p>
<p>Really? I was told otherwise. Maybe it’s because MIT doesn’t have a Latin dep’t and the class I took was Latin at Stanford? Oh well.</p>
<p>Well, unless it’s a pre-approved HASS from Harvard/Wellesley/other xreg places, you’ll generally have to apply for transfer credit from the transfer credit examiners.</p>
<p>Kinda late, but for language classes, you don’t really need AP credit or anything. If you don’t have AP credit, you can just walk in during Registration period and ask for a placement exam. The instructors will sort you into classes based on results from placement exam.</p>
<p>ps. I also took AP Chinese (2007 was the first year) and got 9 unrestricted for it, haha. Which I have no use for, really, but welpz. =p</p>