<p>For classes such as econ and history, can you get "general credit"? I know that these classes aren't honored on the AP Acceleration Credit chart, but could high scores be put toward general credit?</p>
<p>“In some subjects, such as economics, a high score on the AP test does not in itself give you acceleration credits. But the AP test score may qualify you to enroll in intermediate-level courses, by which you can earn acceleration credits during freshman year.”</p>
<p>How can I tell if an AP test is actually important (impacts my college experience).</p>
<p>AP scores don’t really matter at yale.</p>
<p>yale uses ap scores for placement for some departments, and you get ‘acceleration credit’ which you will never use unless you want to graduate early (which is generally a bad idea, i think). but the idea of getting ‘credit’ for scores on your AP tests doesn’t exist. </p>
<p>if you think you’re advanced enough that you don’t want to take intro micro/macro, sign up for intermediate. nobody’s going to stop you. that paragraph you quoted means that if you complete an intermediate class in your freshman year, then notify the registrar, you could get backfilled acceleration credits – again, only useful if you want to graduate early. </p>
<p>hardly anyone graduates early (why would you?)</p>
<p>and the history department doesn’t have preqeqs for most classes so just take what you want. it’s not a video game, you don’t level up!</p>
<p>most people think of APs as a way to ‘get out’ of taking classes at college… that simply doesn’t exist at yale.</p>
<p>good luck!</p>
<p>AP credit is only somewhat useful. </p>
<p>The only time you can apply it toward your 36 credits for graduation is if you are going to graduate in less than 8 semesters. You can accelerate by one or two semesters if you have sufficient acceleration credit. </p>
<p>Other than that, AP credit can be useful to get you into higher level classes, pass out of prerequisites for your major, or lessen your language requirement</p>
<p>For example, if you have a 5 on the AP bio exam, you can take several intermediate level biology classes in your freshman year, and you can bypass the introductory biology survey for the major. If you have as 5 on an AP language exam, you can immediately go into the highest level (L5) of that language and satisfy your language requirement in one semester. Or if you have a 5 on an AP exam, you can satisfy the language requirement by taking another language through L2 (2 semesters, rather than the normally required 3). </p>
<p>Departments have their own policies on which AP credits they accept and what you can pass into with it. You can find this out from the Blue Book when you get it (i’m assuming you’re an admitted student?). But you don’t get course credit for APs, unless you accelerate. They usually just make distributional requirements or prerequisites easier to satisfy.</p>