AP credits?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>So I applied for the college of engineering. Assuming that I get in, what is the rule regarding AP credits? According to their website: "No more than two AP tests may be used to fulfill the College's Humanities/Social Studies requirement." I have taken US and Euro history, both with 5s. If I take the English Language one, will that allow me to skip some classes? I really just want to avoid taking English classes. So will passing the AP english test work?</p>

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<p>In CoE, you don’t have to take English classes.</p>

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<p>ap credits are useless lol.</p>

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<p>I read that on the UC website that it allows me to skip part of the Reading and Comprehension requirement. What exactly is this and is it difficult/ time consuming.</p>

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<p>It could be time consuming. waste of time. if ur premed u might end up having to do it.</p>

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<p>Okay, in L&S there’s two reading and comprehension courses (aka. english) you have to take before you graduate.</p>

<p>5 or 4 in Lang - Skip the first course
5 in Lit - Skip both reading and comp courses
4 in Lit - Skip the first course</p>

<p>you may want to verify this, but this is what I remembered from last semester.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://coe.berkeley.edu/students/current-undergraduates/advising/hssreq.pdf[/url]”>http://coe.berkeley.edu/students/current-undergraduates/advising/hssreq.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>In the College of Engineering, you are required to fulfill both “halves” of the R&C requirements. Unfortunately, only the first half can be satisfied with an AP test (a score of 4 or 5 on either the English Language or English Literature exams). You still have to take the second half once you are a student.</p>

<p>The only loophole that I’ve found (maybe, I still have to check with my advisor on this) is if you decide to do a Chemical engineering or Chemical Engineering + Materials Science/Nuclear Engineering joint major, you are exempt from the second half of the R&C requirement because the Chem.E. and Chem.E. joint major programs are administered primarily by the College of Chemistry, who exempts Chem.E. students from the second half of R&C.</p>