<p>Hi, I’m an incoming freshman and I was wondering how we are supposed to approach receiving course credit for AP scores. I have already checked to make sure that my scores actually make me elligible for credit, but how do I start the process of receiving credit? Can exemption and/or credit from a course count towards your major?</p>
<p>First, you need to contact CollegeBoard to have an official copy of your AP scores sent to Registrar (check <a href="http://www.bates.edu/AP-Policy.xml%5B/url%5D">http://www.bates.edu/AP-Policy.xml</a> about all the technical stuff). Make sure you call Registrar when you get to school or after you've put in the request to follow up; Registrar can be a pain in the ass to get through to and paperwork sometimes gets messed up if you don't keep on them. </p>
<p>The credits work pretty much like this - depending on what you scored on your AP tests (<a href="http://abacus.bates.edu/admin/offices/reg/academics/APpolicy02_03.htm%5B/url%5D">http://abacus.bates.edu/admin/offices/reg/academics/APpolicy02_03.htm</a> will tell you what scores qualify for a certain number of credits), you will get a number of credits added to your transcript. I think you can only get a max. of 8 credits towards your Student Transcript. These credits won't take the place of any of your Distribution Requirements or Major Requirements, except for like Calc or other classes you can place out of and other special circumstances. However, the credits count "generally" towards your transcript, which means this: you need 32 credits to graduate, and if you get say 6 credits towards your transcript, you will need only 26 credits. So, you don't have to stress so much about the actual number of credits you take and you can focus on those ridiculous Distr. Req's, even though those req.'s plus your major requirements will fill your schedule up anyway. But, it also theoretically gives you a better chance of graduating early if you wanted to. </p>
<p>I'd just talk to Registrar about all of this AP stuff - when I had to go through this I just called and had them walk me through the process and explain the AP credit policy and such. I hope this helps!</p>
<p>thanks so much!! it definetly does help, but, for example, I'm going to probably be a biology major and I placed out of two calculus classes so how would that work? Sorry to keep prying.</p>
<p>The AP credits don't really do much, which completely sucks I know. You're still going to have to take a course that fulfills the quantitative requirement (which could be a science course like Chem), but you can take a higher level Calc course since your AP scores take the place of a higher level class's prerequisites. </p>
<p>It pretty much doesn't mean anything for your Bio major requirements... unless one of the requirements is a higher level Calc or math class, which you'd be able to complete without having to take those prereq.'s and wasting more of your time that could be spent taking other courses. ...I don't know if I explained that well enough, but if you have any more questions just ask :)</p>