<p>Does anyone know which, if any, high school AP classes can be counted for credit at Wellesley? I really don't want to take another Spanish class.. six years was more than enough, thanks x[</p>
<p>Even on the Wellesley website it's a little muddled ... here's the general list of classes:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wellesley.edu/Registrar/APInfo.html%5B/url%5D">www.wellesley.edu/Registrar/APInfo.html</a></p>
<p>HOWEVER, I believe they changed the policy in 2006, so you only get credit for a 5 on any AP test. Also, on the College Board website - they say the max you can get credit for is 4, so 6 is plenty.</p>
<p>That said, the reason to take AP classes for a school like Wellesley is NOT to get credit -- but to prepare you to work at the level of their students, many of whom have extensive AP/IB experience, too. So, challenge yourself, and take what you're passionate about.</p>
<p>I took two AP language classes at my school, and I continued with this last year because I really enjoyed learning Spanish, and I got a 5 on the test in my junior year. But this last class totally turned me off from it, due to.. well, many reasons, not excluding a barely coherent eighty-year-old teacher, and now I'm sick and tired of Spanish. :/ I'm planning to major in the sciences at Wellesley, and I don't want to take a yet another language class that'll waste my time. </p>
<p>I thought I liked Spanish, but.. I guess I just don't like it enough anymore. If I still need language credits, I'd much rather learn a new language than keep going on with it. Kind of sad.</p>
<p>Thanks for the list, anyhow; it helps a lot!</p>
<p>All of the information on the website says that you need a certain AP score (either 4 or 5, depending on whether or not the standards have changed--I'm pretty sure that most of the other AP standards have changed to 5) to completely fulfill the foreign language requirement. If you don't have that score, you need either two semesters at the second-year level or one semester at the third-year level. Departments offer placement tests during Orientation week.</p>
<p>Ask about SAT II options. The webpage I'm looking at was last edited nearly three years ago; talk to the registrar to get current information.</p>
<p>One issue that arose when I was a first-year was that the language you wanted to count for the foreign language requirement had to be offered at Wellesley. My first-year roommate got an 800 on the Korean SAT II, but she couldn't count it toward the foreign language req because the school didn't offer Korean. (She took a semester of Spanish, instead.) This would be another question for the registrar--things might have changed.</p>
<p>I wish I had known I was accepted to Wellesley before I had to sign up for AP tests. If we can only get credit for 4 tests, there's really no point to me taking any this year. Sigh. I already paid my 83 dollars (up 1 dollar from last year, grr) to take the AP Latin test- I am one of five in the entire COUNTY taking the test. I guess I have to get a five to get credit and I would rather not have a language requirement looming over my head. The pressure is ON.</p>
<p>What? You don't want those pointless awards from the College board that say you are an "AP Scholar With Distinction".</p>
<p>You can only get 4 credits to cover classes, but some tests will remove requirements or do placements, while others are blank credits. Unless you already have an AP Credit in Latin (isn't their more than one, like Vergil or something), you can get higher placement in Latin or a removal of the language requirement.</p>
<p>Although if you are taking AP Latin, you will probably not test into beginning Latin anyway, so your language requirement will not take two years to fulfill, but probably one semester. Also, if you get AP Credit for Latin, and take even one semester of Latin at Wellesley, you will actually fulfill your language requirement.</p>
<p>If it makes you feel any better I
-took seven AP exams
-received a full year's worth (8 units, BC calc = 2 units) of credit from Wellesley
-received AP credit in place of my QR overlay requirment
-fulfilled the langauge requirement based on both my SAT II scores and my AP scores (only the SAT II would have done it on the new system)</p>
<p>and when arriving at Wellesley, I
-took two courses that fullfilled the QR overlay requirement ( you need one, sadly two are required for my major)
-took three French classes (one would have done the requirment at my level)
-have an additional semester's worth of credit's from two semester's worth of 5 classes and WAY too many lab units.</p>
<p>-have chosen to graduate in the normal 8 semesters and not advanced despite the fact that I have an extra year and a half worth of credits</p>
<p>If it makes you feel any better, you get to say you are one of the 5 best Latin students in your county. And not taking the AP exam really undermines the validity of taking an AP course, even though admissions don't really consider the sorces.</p>
<p>You can always get a refund, can't you? But our AP tests cost 95 dollars each, and you only get refunded 75 :T</p>
<p>Thanks for the insight, WendyMouse. At this point I'm going to try my best on the test, even though it's on the last day of school for seniors and all my friends will be heading to the beach while I sit there writing essays on Vergil. I do want to take other languages in college, but I don't want to be worrying about the requirement and I definitely don't want to take any more Latin. Ack. I've had my fill.</p>
<p>Ah. You go to one of those schools that doesn't have another month after the AP exams (story of my life).
Good luck on your AP exam.</p>
<p>I'd never take a course in any language that wasn't even sure how to spell the name of its preeminent poet. ;)</p>