<p>So I've been looking into the policies of various schools for transfering, and it seems like most do not accept AP credit. I don't understand this. Why is it that these schools will accept the AP credit of incoming freshmen but not of transfer students? If my current university accepted the tests and gave me credit for various classes (psych100, stat100, etc etc) then will the next transfer university accept those classes? I'm just trying to understand why all the credit I got from my APs (8 in total) will not count if I transfer. Or, am I misunderstanding the policy entirely?</p>
<p>You may be just looking at schools whose AP policy is more restrictive than the one you currently attend. I'm not aware of any transfer school which would have given AP credit to a freshman but would not give it for a transfer. Could you be more specific about which school you currently attend and which school(s) you're considering?</p>
<p>The transfer school probably will not care whether your current school gave you credit/advanced standing for APs. They will follow their own policies as to which subject and what AP scores will get credit/advanced standing at their school.</p>
<p>Like Harvard, for example.</p>
<p>bump, or what about UCB or Stanford?</p>
<p>Well...Harvard's an interesting situation. If you look at the freshman AP policy, only those who have enough AP credits to have Advanced Standing AND want to graduate early (in 3 years) are given the credit. Freshman who do not want to graduate early (most I assume don't) do not recieve AP credit either. </p>
<p>Because Harvard's transfer students are required to be in residence for at least 2 years, it would not make sense to grant AP credit.</p>
<p>heybulldog, you are misunderstanding Harvard's policy. I think they mean that they will not accept AP credit to count towards the certain requirements that need fulfilled in order to transfer. For example, if you have AP Physics C credit, it will not count towards the science requirement that you need in order to have the 6 semester hours of science or whatever. However, I think that it will transfer in addition to the 6 required hours.</p>
<p>NDFreak7, that is not how Harvard's policy works. There are no minimum course requirements to transfer. The science, math, language courses are recommendations, albeit strongly recommended. </p>
<p>Harvard DOES NOT allow credits given by other schools for AP tests to transfer students.</p>