<p>So looking at the chart at <a href=“http://www.brandeis.edu/registrar/apchart.html[/url]”>http://www.brandeis.edu/registrar/apchart.html</a> it says “semester course credit”. Does that give me a credit towards graduation, or simply place me out of an introduction class? </p>
<p>I called the Admissions Office and they said the former, but current students have told me differently.</p>
<p>Basically, what is BRandeis’s policy with Advanced Placement Exams?</p>
<p>the policy is that every score on every test will mean something different. If you told me the test and score, I could tell you exactly what it would mean. Let's say you got a 4 on European History.</p>
<p>The first column says which (if any) distribution you will fulfill. It takes care of the school of social science requirement meaning you won't have to take any courses designated as social science in order to graduate. You get 1 course credit. That is applied toward graduation. There's a maximum of 4 course credits (or one semester) you are able to complete by AP requirements. So, you could graduate one semester early. If you are a history major, you cannot count the AP as one of your 8 history courses. (But a 4 on Art History would allow it to count as one of your art history courses for your major.) No courses offered at Brandeis are equivalent to an AP Euro class, according to the last column.</p>
<p>The best AP deal ever is a 5 on AP Chem...you get a semester of credit but, if you need it for a major, you get out of both semesters of lecture and lab and therefore get to jump straight into orgo.</p>
<p>to clarify - so for Spanish Language, it says 'Foreign Language' for 'requirement met' but '0' for 'semester course credit.' so that means that if I get a 4 or 5 I won't have to take a class for the foreign language requirement, but I won't get a credit towards graduation?</p>
<p>and no AP gets you out of the requirements in writing, the seminar in humanities inquiries, or the neo-western comparative studies?</p>
<p>and it looks like I get nothing for the 5 I got on English language? =(</p>
<p>You get general university credit, which is pretty awesome because you can use it to graduate early or to be a part time student senior year or something like that. Or do a BA/MA program, which is what I'm doing with my extra university credits.</p>