AP Credits

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<p>I have seen the page for VT's credits awarded to good AP Scores, however, I am a bit confused. So the page is right here: <a href="http://www.registrar.vt.edu/registration/documents/ap_equivalency_1112.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.registrar.vt.edu/registration/documents/ap_equivalency_1112.pdf&lt;/a> If I receive a 5 on my AP Biology exam will I receive 8 credits for these classes:Bio-1005,1006,1015,1016? </p>

<p>Also just to clarify, when it says for my major social sciences are required, social sciences are history classes like AP Euro/APUSH right?</p>

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<p>This is another helpful chart for figuring out AP credit transfer:
<a href=“http://www.admiss.vt.edu/forms/ap_credit.pdf[/url]”>http://www.admiss.vt.edu/forms/ap_credit.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>As far as social science requirements, you can read a bit more about that here:
[Undergraduate</a> Catalog University Academic Advising Center](<a href=“http://www.undergradcatalog.registrar.vt.edu/1011/uaacenter.html]Undergraduate”>Undergraduate Catalog University Academic Advising Center)</p>

<p>Double check, though, because some of the classes required by your major might satisfy a general education requirement at the same time.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the chart – it was much more helpful in a simplified way.</p>

<p>Still a bit unclear about the social sciences thing however… I plan to major in something at Pamplin. </p>

<p>AP Credits can satisfy general ed requirements correct?</p>

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<p>AP Credits can satisfy Gen Ed. Usually, if you look at a check sheet for your major, it will include the general education classes you need to take. From there, you can figure out which ones you can exempt through AP Credit. </p>

<p>For example, let’s say you were going to major in finance. Here is the check sheet for that major: </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.finance.pamplin.vt.edu/academics/checksheets/2015.pdf[/url]”>http://www.finance.pamplin.vt.edu/academics/checksheets/2015.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Listed under freshman year courses, there are two ‘Social Science’ spots with a little number 2 annotation next to them. Scroll to the bottom to find the matching ‘2’ footnote, and you’ll find a list of Social Science courses you are allowed to take as a Finance major. (Which in this case, seems to be any type of Social Science class that you want). </p>

<p>Each type of course at Tech is classified under an ‘Area’ (which you can see more about on that check sheet I just linked to). Here is a complete list of ‘Area 3’ or Social Science courses at Tech:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.cle.prov.vt.edu/guides/area3.html[/url]”>http://www.cle.prov.vt.edu/guides/area3.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>wow this clarified so much. thank you!</p>

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<p>Under the freshman finance curriculum plan you linked over pdf, it states I need to take “Area 5: MATH 1525-1526 Elementary Calculus with Matrices 1,7” Is this the course that I must take or would any course under area 5 work? It says under one of the footnotes “Equivalent Math courses may be substituted. Completes the University Curriculum for Liberal Education Requirement in Area 5: Quantitative and
Symbolic Reasoning.” I scored a 3 on the AP Calc AB Exam last year and according to the AP tables I would get credit for Math 1016 and Math 2015 which are courses under are 5. Could that be substituted to complete that requirement?</p>

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<p>Here is a link to the full CLE guide: <a href=“http://www.cle.prov.vt.edu/guides/11-12/VT_CLE_Guide_11-12.pdf[/url]”>http://www.cle.prov.vt.edu/guides/11-12/VT_CLE_Guide_11-12.pdf&lt;/a&gt;. </p>

<p>I looked through the requirements, but I’m not quite sure because of the information on page 22 (Pamplin College of Business Requirements). Maybe someone else has a better answer, but this seems like something your orientation course scheduling advisor could help answer.</p>

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<p>I googled, and I found the equivalents listed on a Pamplin transfer application. </p>

<p>Equivalents are (1) MATH 1114-1205-1206, (2) MATH 1114-1205-2015, (3) 1015-1016-2015, (4) 1205-1526, (5) 1016-1526.</p>

<p>So using the (3) option, you could get credit for the Calc you already took, and just take an easy pre-calculus course (1015) for a stress-free GPA booster. </p>

<p>Here’s the form I got the information from:
<a href=“Undergraduate Programs | Pamplin College of Business | Virginia Tech”>Undergraduate Programs | Pamplin College of Business | Virginia Tech;

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<p>I didn’t want to create a whole new thread for a quick question:</p>

<p>Does AP Statistics not count toward the engineering degree?</p>

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<p>Go look at the AP Transfer charts linked above. If an AP course won’t count towards a certain degree, it will be listed in the footnotes.</p>