AP Credit at Vanderbilt CAS

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<p>I am a bit confused by their policies. According to Admissions</a> | Vanderbilt University "Students of the College of Arts and Science are limited to a total of 18 credit hours earned by an combination of advanced placement, international baccalaureate credit, advanced international credit, and credit by departmental examination, counting toward the minimum number of hours required toward the degree." This seems to suggest that the max number of credits from such sources that they will recognize is 18, in absolute, and nothing more.</p>

<p>However, from this link: <a href="http://www.vanderbilt.edu/cas/docs/prefreshman%20credit%20letter.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.vanderbilt.edu/cas/docs/prefreshman%20credit%20letter.pdf&lt;/a>, "If you transfer in more than 18, rather than deducting credit from the above, we will proportionally increase the number of hours required for you to graduate in order to reflect the requirement that all students complete 102 hours at Vanderbilt." This seems to suggest that if you transfer in more than 18 credits, the additional credits can be used for placement, that is, skipping the intro courses and taking higher level courses, but just cannot apply to the 120 needs for graduation. Is this interpretation correct?</p>

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<p>From what I’ve heard, you can only use 18 to provide credit (of the 120 you need). The rest are used for placement.</p>

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<p>That sounds accurate. If you have accumulated a lot of AP credits you will be able to use each one in their full capacity to get placed into classes. However a maximum of 18 can be counted toward graduation hours.</p>

<p>Honestly, AP classes only help you get placement in math, chem and some language classes.</p>

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<p>It’s tricky, basically here’s the deal.</p>

<p>You get 18 hours; everything else just sums up to clever book keeping.</p>

<p>Also, Peabody is unlimited, Hey-O!</p>

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<p>AP credits will also not count towards your AXLE courses</p>

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<p>VandySAE, What do you mean by “everything else just sums up to clever book keeping.”</p>

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<p>Moose, it is clever bookkeeping because the alternative would look nasty to an accountant. Say someone came in with 23 AP hours, they would have to somehow figure out how to omit the actual credit hours without restricting exemptions, and it would get even more complicated on academic records when the proportions don’t match up to an even # of tests (i.e. 23 hours is pretty common, but most tests only give you 3 hours, so people might end up getting stuck with 17). You would have to choose which hours you would want to omit. By crediting students with the actual number and then just bumping up the hours you have to complete, they make everyone happy with a pretty simple system, which is great given how confusing it can already be with Quality Hours, Earned Hours, and who knows what else.</p>

<p>Oh yeah.</p>