<p>How do AP credits work at UMich? Is there a cap on the amount you can have? Do they reduce tuition? How do med/grad schools look at it?</p>
<p>The cap is 60 AP credits. They don't reduce tuition (they kind of increase it because you may have to pay upperclass tuition sooner), and med/grad schools don't look at them. They're very useful for scheduling preference and getting out of prereqs, however.</p>
<p>They go towards elective and departmental prereqs for ones concentration/graduation requirement, but they do not exempt you at all from any distribution requirements. Those ****ers.</p>
<p>I don't think that's a bad thing. An entry class from college profs is very different from an AP class, and distriubtion really does provide you with a diverse education where AP credits coming in wouldn't.</p>
<p>So, chibears, did you ever feel behind when taking an upper level course after taking ap credit for the lower level course?</p>
<p>Well maguo, I guess I'll find out next semester in ECON 401. As of yet, I haven't taken any classes in departments where my AP credits got me out of a lower-level course. I didn't take a microeconomics course, I just read a few chapters in a prep book the night before the AP test, so I really don't remember much at all about microeconomics, but I hear 401 will be pretty easy for me, so I think I'll be just fine in it. But in general, I don't think people who took AP credits are at a great disadvantage. People who were able to handle lots of AP's in high school generally have the intellect to be ahead of the curve at Michigan.</p>