<p>The AP credits are now showing in the freshman records, which leads me to a question... My D has several AP credits for courses that are required for her engineering curriculum (ex: Biology, Calc I, Calc II), so she doesn't have to take those courses. However, she registered for them anyway "as a review" since the engineering curriculum also requires higher levels of Bio and Calc and she didn't want to jump right into those (ex: Vector calculus, Microbiology, etc.). </p>
<p>So, my question is... how can she get credit twice for essentially the same classes - AP credit AND credit for taking the actual class? Will the AP credit simply be removed or will the classes show twice on her transcript- once as a transfer credit (how the AP credit appears now) and once as USC course credit? </p>
<p>Thankfully she is opting to use her AP Eng Lit and AP Eng. Lang credit and not re-take those classes at least. </p>
<p>Hmm, this is kind of a guess butl D received 6 hours credit (101/102) for each Eng AP she took and obviously they don’t count those twice towards degree requirement. However they did bump up her total credit hours for things like priority for football tickets and registration times so not entirely worthless. For that it’s probably just an internal thing, I haven’t looked to see what her actual transcript says. That’s something you can ask about in fall.</p>
<p>Your D is smart to not take credits for core courses and jump straight into higher level. I will say my D, with 5 in BC Calc, did go straight to vector (honors) and it was not a problem…but we had looked at text and it was same as HS one and she took BC her senior year. But I think skipping into higher science would be harder. Of course, somewhat depends on how many years since you took it in HS.</p>
<p>I agree with SCMOM in that if you student retakes a class, its an internal credit accounting thing, but the class & AP credit do not both count towards the degree requirements. My DD did not take her AP Chem credit (scored an AP 4 & 790 on SAT II subject test), but retook two semesters of the Honors Chem equivalents as she was thinking of majoring in that subject. The first semester was a breeze; 2nd semester she did learn material in a new way so the class was more challenging. Math classes are different as math is math and there is not the learning curve with acclimating to college lab procedures and adjusting to the lectures vs. reading-on-your-own expectation.</p>