<p>Joeahn, your humanities/SS AP credits are entered into the system along with all the other AP credits. Initially, they are automatically used to satisfy whatever humanities requirements that they fulfill up to a limit of 2. As you take more courses including in humanities/SS, the Duke courses will start showing up alongside these AP credits where applicable in fulfilling your graduation requirements. When you graduate, the system will look for whether you have satisfied the requirements using whatever combination of courses/AP credits you have at that time with AP credits being applied if you don’t have the courses to satisfy the requirements.</p>
<p>In the end, the system only tells you whether or not you have met the requirements for graduation in specific categories like humanities or math or w/e. It doesn’t actually break it down by AP vs Duke course credit. Your diploma will also just say that you have met the minimum requirements to receive your degree and won’t come with a breakdown of which courses you actually took to meet those requirements.</p>
<p>The whole point is, this isn’t a huge deal. Your goal is to graduate. The AP credits are there. If you want to pretend that they don’t exist and take the Duke courses as if you didn’t have the credits then you can and you will still graduate if you manage to satisfy all the requirements. When the time comes, if you came up short however, then the system will automatically use some of your AP credits to fill the holes. The whole “forced to use the [AP] credit” thing is a pretty artificial argument. Unless you are saying that you don’t want to graduate if you are short in certain areas if it means you using AP credits. The credits don’t prevent you from taking any class however low level they may be so you may as well stop being fixated on being forced to take AP credits or whatever and just focus on course selection. You can pretend you don’t have the AP credits if that makes you feel better and continue to pick your courses however you want them.</p>