AP Credits

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<p>Hi all, I'm going to be matriculating as a first-year student this September. I was wondering which classes I would be able to get credit for with these AP scores: </p>

<p>AP Microecon: 5
AP Macroecon: 5
AP US Gov: 5
AP USH: 5
AP Eng Lang: 5
AP Calc BC: 5
AP Span: 4
AP Chemistry: 5
AP Lit (pending): 3 conservatively, 4 if things turn out well
AP Music Theory (pending): 4/5
AP Stat (pending): 4/5
AP Physics C Mechanics (pending): 4/5
AP Physics C E/M (pending): 3 (didn't feel so good about this one....) </p>

<p>Also, if this matters, I'm thinking about majoring in econ or possibly chemistry</p>

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<p>This is good. I believe you will waive the physical sciences requirement (two classes) and Math 151 and 152, so you’ll start in Math 153. You will also have the maximum six general elective credit. I am an Econ major so I don’t know what the Chemistry major entails. </p>

<p>If you had wanted more credit, you could have taken AP Bio (4 or 5) to waive one quarter of the BIOS core, and a foreign language AP exam to waive the entire three quarters. But overall you are off to a pretty good start credit-wise. </p>

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<p>My UofC friend who’s a rising senior said that any intro or intermediate language sequence is both good practice and a GPA-padder. Would it be in my interest to forgo my Spanish credit provided my schedule permits? </p>

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<p>Your French score does not give you any credit, but it does satisfy the Core language requirement. Any introductory language course in college is a lot of work. It seems nuts to do that if you don’t have to.</p>

<p>Look hard at the econ and chemistry major requirements for math. Your Calculus BC score will satisfy your core math requirement and let you go straight into Math 153 (the third quarter of non-honors calculus). But then I think you may have to take Math 199 to qualify for higher level math courses you will need or want for your prospective majors. The alternative is to take honors calculus (Math 161-3), and I think that’s what a lot of people with 5s on their Calculus BC tests do if they want to go into math-y fields. This is really something to discuss with your advisor and someone from the math department during your orientation week.</p>

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