So the Website states the following
The website also states
Does that mean that if you pass the above English AP exam with a 4 or a 5, you get credit for 3 electives out of the 6 allowed? Is that what 3 quarters general elective credit means?
Also does
mean that you can instead just take 5 courses in the Gen Ed Math/Science portions, so 2 Math, 2 Physical Sciences and 1 Biology since you now have credit for 1 Biology?
Anybody care to clarify?
That’s how we read it as well.
I’m fairly certain that that it’s only 1 course credit for AP English Lang but you can also get credit for AP English Lit. They are elective credits and don’t count for HUM core. Many people with AP Bio credit will take a special course that I can’t remember name of now that’s a kind of honors level rehash plus extra material to satisfy core and majoy requrements similar to the honors calc track.
Yes, that’s correct.
But…elective credits barely matter. It just means you can get away with a few more 3 class quarters if you have a small major. Most people don’t bother with since most people want to take more, not less classes.
@HydeSnark So, wouldn’t it matter in this following case.
Let’s say you are able to get a waiver for the six elective courses, so you would technically need only 36 courses to graduate. Now I know undergrad students can take upto 6 Booth classes, but only 4 count towards the 42 needed to get a bachelor’s degree. If you only need 36, can’t you now take the full load of Booth classes without worrying that the 5th and 6th classes won’t count towards your degree since now you are not really concerned about that issue anymore?
Otherwise you would need to take 42 courses (which can include at most 4 Booth classes) and then pay for the additional 2 courses from Booth over and above the 42 required, if you were that keen on them. Getting the maximum credits allows you the flexibility of taking the entire load of 6 Booth classes within the 42 number which you couldn’t do otherwise. the Am I getting this right?
BTW if you take more courses than needed for the bachelors degree, do those courses count towards your undergraduate GPA and are they listed on your transcript? or are they considered non-credit continuing education classes?
No, you’re overthinking it.
42 courses required to graduate = 42 courses / 4 years / 3 quarters = 3.5 courses a quarter. You can take up to 4 courses a quarter every quarter, giving you 48 class slots in total, so you’ll have room for the 2 additional Booth classes even with no elective credits.
I’m pretty sure they’re listed on your transcript but I have no idea, honestly. That’s a question for the registrar.
Among my children and their friends, approximately no one graduated with as few as 42 courses. The median and mode were probably 45-46. Due to a summer language misadventure, my son had 49, but that cost extra money. Everything appeared on the transcript and got factored into GPA, as far as I know. (Not that I ever looked at a transcript or checked a GPA calculation – really, you will be surprised at how little anyone cares about such things, even people applying to medical school or law school. Much less their parents.)
What the extra elective credit can get you is the ability to graduate one or two quarters early, if you take no electives. I’m sure a few people do that every year as a cost-saving move, but in general students do try to take more courses, or pick up another major, or get a master’s degree, rather than graduate early.
@HydeSnark Ah, Thanks. I forgot that either 3 or 4 courses is considered full load at not extra cost 
@HydeSnark @JHS Is it possible to carry a full load of 4 courses in the 3rd and 4th year and still focus on internships and recruitment?
My kids had very few friends who were focused on internships and recruitment in the way you are suggesting. For them, things were actually pretty easy: There were defined protocols for getting hired, and most of them were done with the process by the end of their first quarter fourth year, if not by the beginning of that quarter.
Between applying to PhD programs and completing his departmental thesis, my son didn’t start to focus on looking for an actual real-world job until after graduation. I think he only took three courses his last quarter so he could concentrate on finishing the thesis, but a seminar that had been particularly good the previous quarter continued to meet and do assignments informally through the last quarter, so effectively he had four courses. And he’s planning to marry someone who was in that seminar with him.
My daughter was in the worst possible graduating class, in terms of the economy. She was focused on a job search her last two quarters, largely without success, but it didn’t keep her from taking four courses and completing her thesis. She is a very organized person.