<p>Does anyone know the AU policy on high school AP classes? Do they give actual credit or just let you advance to the nex course?</p>
<p>AU gives actual credit.</p>
<p>Here is the link that gives AP credit information:</p>
<p>[School</a> of International Service, American University](<a href=“http://www.american.edu/sis/advising-undergrad/ap-equivalents.htm]School”>http://www.american.edu/sis/advising-undergrad/ap-equivalents.htm)</p>
<p>Well, that was obviously for SIS. I can’t tell if it’s the same across the board or if you have to look at each individual school’s web page.</p>
<p>I was looking into it yesterday. It’s hard to find info all in one place. This link tells you what general education credits you can satisfy through AP credit:
[General</a> Education Credit by Exam](<a href=“http://www.gened.american.edu/articulations.htm]General”>http://www.gened.american.edu/articulations.htm)
On the math dept website, it says you can get credit for Calc I and Calc II, as well as Stat 202. It also says somewhere that, “the College Writing and English Competency requirement may also be satisfied through AP English Test score of 4 or 5.”. I’m not sure, but I think that may mean they give you credit for Lit 100 and Lit 101. I believe I read somewhere that you AP scores of 4 or 5, in general, to get credit for any course.</p>
<p>-A 4 or 5 on the AP Calc/ Stat exams satisfies the finite math requirement.
-A 4 or 5 on one AP English test satisfies one semester of college writing. (You can get credit for college writing and college writing seminar if you have 2 AP English tests).
-A 4 or 5 on some AP tests will satisfy general education requirements.
-A 4 or 5 on other AP tests will give you elective credit.</p>
<p>I thought I saw on the website that American only allows up to 30 hours of AP credit.</p>
<p>Yeah, they only give you 30 AP credits. But you can get community college credits, so if you have the chance, take your math or science this summer at community college this summer so you don’t need to worry about it. </p>
<p>I brought in 41 credits and it has made my life so much easier here at AU! I can go abroad two semesters.</p>
<p>Help me understand the AP credits given. If an incoming Freshman has 30 AP credits and 120 credits are needed for graduation…can they basically graduate in 3 years? That would be 15 credits/semester or 30/year. Would only take 3 years to get 90 credits. Does this make sense? If so, do many students do this? Doesn’t seem too hard to bring in 30 AP credits.</p>
<p>Also, when doing study abroad for a semester, do you typically have a 15 credit course load?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Technically, if a student came in with 30 credits, they could finish in 2.5 years.</p>
<p>18 credits per semester.
18*5 semesters=90
90+30 AP=120</p>
<p>But in order to get thirty credits… you’d have to take like three science courses and an English course at AP level or a massive load of other humanities APs.</p>
<p>But say… you take (and get a 4 or 5):
AP English Lit (6)
AP US History (6)
AP Euro History (6)
AP Stats (4)
AP Bio (8)</p>
<p>you’d end up with… 30 credits</p>
<p>So yeah… it can be done where you end in five semesters, instead of eight. That’s like …75k in tuition savings. XD</p>
<p>My son was told by his advisor that he could receive direct “credit” for a total of 30 hours from AP and/or IB. As a full IB diploma holder with 12 additional AP tests, he has a total of around 60 possible credits to choose from. The cool thing is he doesn’t have to designate what credits he wants until Junior year, that is, at the start of Junior year, he can look back and fit in the credits as needed to give him the maximum credit towards the degree/s he is pursueing at that time.</p>