AP Credit

<p>I looked online on my Wolverine Access account and saw that I was granted 26 credits already from my AP scores. I was wondering whether this amount was normal or is it too small as I am not sure how the AP credits are normally granted by colleges? Any opinions would be appreciated!</p>

<p>Here is the link.
<a href=“AP, IB Credit | University of Michigan Office of Undergraduate Admissions”>http://www.admissions.umich.edu/ap-guidelines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Which AP tests did you take?</p>

<p>AP Calc, AP Bio, AP Econ, AP Gov, AP English Lang, APUSH, and AP Stats. Why do you ask?</p>

<p>Did you get 4s and 5s on all the exams?</p>

<p>Biology may get you 4 credits even with a 3 but 5 credits for 4 or 5. Calc BC can get you up to 8 for CoE but less for LSA. 4 credits for APUSH and Eng are 3 credits for 4 or 5. It seems you are doing pretty well in AP exams.</p>

<p>@kingkumar, you should check with the adviser to see if these 26 credits are useful for you or not. You really don’t want to have extra useless credits that would do nothing rather than making you paying upperclassman tuition much earlier. My D got 29 AP credits and perhaps another 8 credits from placement exam. She is going to withdraw some within the first semester, otherwise, she need to pay higher tuition from the 3rd semester. After the first semester, you cannot do anything with those credits. At least this is the policy for CoE. Anyway, it is more an issue with CoE as the difference in tuition between upper and lower classmen is much bigger.</p>

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<p>@billcsho‌ et al, do you know of any other cons – besides getting higher tuition rate earlier – for incoming freshmen with a high # of credits?</p>

<p>For LSA specifically, my S learned from his orientation that any 300-level-and-above classes taken by freshman would be considered Honors classes. But I’m now not sure if that means taken during freshman (1st) year, or students with freshman standing only. That is, for an INCOMING FRESHMAN with many credits to qualify for a Sophomore standing, who’s planning to take a 300-level course (or Junior standing taking 400-level course), would that class be considered an Honors course?</p>

<p>Basically, we’re trying to decide whether we should withdraw some of his credits (AP and/or dual-enrolled) so that the upper-level courses taken during his Freshman/Sophomore yrs can still be designated Honors course.</p>

<p>He should talk to his adviser at the orientation or afterward regarding this. Besides paying higher tuition, I don’t see any other adverse effect of having too many AP credits. Remember, withdrawal of test/AP credits needs to be done within the first term.</p>

<p>Although you might have to pay higher tuition earlier, could your student also graduate a semester or two early, saving a boatload of money, if you keep the credits? </p>

<p>The 26 credits sounds reasonable. If you received 3 credits for each test that would be 21 credits for 7 tests. Two tests must have counted for an extra 5 credits instead of only 3.</p>

<p>Additionally, some colleges don’t have different pricing for upperclassmen. Check your school.</p>

<p>An upside of getting these credits is being considered an upperclassman for class registration. Sometimes this permits getting into sections earlier than all the other freshmen. The boost will help as you accumulate credits, i.e. when you are a sophomore, you will be registering with the Juniors so some of the sections for sophomore classes will have open seats. This helps you select sections for professors you want or times that work with your schedule. This is an advantage.</p>

<p>Also, look at what the 26 credits are for. This helps you get into higher level classes and place out of General Education requirements. Sometimes this lets you get a minor in a subject. You typically need 6 classes for a minor.</p>

<p>Lots of options open up to you with 26 AP credits. Great job on the AP tests! Good luck with school!</p>

<p>Thanks, @billcsho‌. S decided not to withdraw any credits regardless of honors designation. Instead, he’ll use this opportunity to do either a double-major, or 1 major + minors + other things in between.</p>

<p>My D is going to withdraw 3-11 credits that are useless for CoE and will not affect graduation at all. She got 29 credits from 6 AP and perhaps another 4-8 credits from placement. Some will be counted as extra electives or humanities only. Those AP credits will not fulfill the 300 level requirement anyway. She will meet with the adviser to decide which AP credit to withdraw. Otherwise, she will start paying upperclassman tuition from sophomore. She may still graduate one semester early after the credit withdrawal if she choose to do so as she got 18 useful credits for core requirements.</p>

<p>I got Son’s AP scores this morning and he’ll qualify for 20 credits. That gives him some flexibility and actually could allow him to take just 2 classes his first term in the RC (Latin for 8 credits and First Year Seminar for 4) plus UROP. </p>

<p>@billcsho Do placement tests give credits and if so, which ones do? Also, how would you know how many credits you got from it?</p>

<p>@kingkumar Spanish placement exam may give credits depending on your performance. According to the adviser, my D may get 8 credits from it, however, it is not clear if that is in addition to the AP credit or overlapped.</p>

<p>I don’t see the point in withdrawing AP/test credit, especially if you are in the CoE. I know people who came in with more than 29 credits and graduated early (some people saved a semester, while others saved a whole year). Graduating early and paying upper level tuition earlier is cheaper than graduating on time and not paying upper level tuition earlier.</p>

<p>Consider this example. Let’s say you enter the College of Engineering with 40 or so credits. After your first semester, you start to pay upper level tuition. You would pay 3 extra semesters of upper level tuition. However, you graduate a semester early.</p>

<p>Based on <a href=“Tuition & Fees | Office of the Registrar”>http://ro.umich.edu/tuition/tuition-fees.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Instate:
You pay an additional $6,264 ( (9135-7047)*3 ) early on. However, you save $9,135 at the end because you graduate early. That is a savings of $2,871 ($9,135-$6,264). When you throw in housing, food, etc. that savings is a lot more.</p>

<p>@billcsho‌ </p>

<p>When I got 8 credits from the Spanish placement exam, half of them went to General Electives and the other half went to intellectual breadth.</p>

<p>@777Blue77 Due to the required courses, my D will still need ~3.5 year to graduate anyway. So keeping those extra credits would not really help (8 of those credits are really surplus for any requirement) and she will have enough time to fulfill whatever credits left in electives and IB within that 3.5 years after withdrawing those useless credits. She is not withdrawing all the AP/placement credits, just the 3-11 credits that are useless (she will still keep up to 26 AP credits). That would push the upperclassmen tuition to the second semester of sophomore. In addition, she got a scholarship and grant to cover most of the tuition up to 4 years while the extra cost for upperclassman will likely come out of our pocket completely. So there is not much of saving, if any, by graduating in 3 years with packed schedule. Particularly, she need to maintain good GPA to renew the scholarship so she should not be overwhelmed.</p>

<p>@billcsho I was placed into Spanish 277 and I placed out of the LSA language requirement. I am in LSA though so would I receive credits and if so, how many?</p>