<p>first, good luck to everyone taking the AP exams! took my first one today and holy cow free response kicked my butt. anyhoo...</p>
<p>second, if mcgill grants me credits, do my scores appear on my transcript? or does it just list the courses that i got credit for?</p>
<p>O boy, French Language, Calculus AB, and European History! Only Euro left to go!</p>
<p>If someone knowledgable could explain the whole credits thing (including the effect of good AP test scores on these credits) that would be awesome, thank you.</p>
<p>crazychai, you take BC calc?</p>
<p>I took that today and some of the free response were crazy.</p>
<p>lucky! i have 3 more...boooooo. how was AB today? i heard some ppl say that it was harder than the practice ones they took.</p>
<p>Didnt take any practices, it was pretty easy for the mult choice parts (doubt on 4 total out of say 85), the free response was harder, but not totally out of grasp</p>
<p>I'm not exactly sure, but at least for IB they have a cutoff thing for awarding credit and it's all the same. For example, they say that any course that you get more or equal to 5 out of 7 in you get credit for at McGill. They just give you a credit and you don't get a grade on your university transcript. So it really doesn't matter if you get a 5 or 7 in IB. I don't know if it works the same way for AP, but that's how it is for IB. Good luck to all of you who are still writing! IB exams started today too!</p>
<p>for ap, you have to get a 4 or a 5 to get credit, i believe</p>
<p>I HEard for Bcomm students getting a 4 or 5doesnt really help in that ur still required to take the 2 semsters of math for management unless u want to be a math minor also
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<p>And for IB I should think they only give you credit for Higher levels- AP all courses are equal right?</p>
<p>pertheusual, ya i took bc yesteryday and YES FR KICKED MY BUTT! lol #1 was really good and then it was downhill from there. i mean #2 ***!!! i'm not feeling so bad today though cause i just came home from my stat test and i killed that FR. hopefully, the BC is VERY VERY VERY generous!</p>
<p>AND does anyone have the answer to my original equation? hehe</p>
<p>CRAP! question* gosh math is stuck in my head i can't even talk english and damn the 60 second rule!</p>
<p>no clue about the transcipts, sorry. Yeah, hopefully they are generous. That is the nice thing about the AP's though, a 5 isn't like 90%, its more like 70-75 or something. That makes it better at least.</p>
<p>ya thank god! i really hope college exams aren't as intense as the APs. i heard somewhere that they aren't NEARLY as hard as the APs but i donno about at mcgill</p>
<p>Its 4's and up for credit for AP.</p>
<p>Not trying to start a major war regarding AP and AP courses but here is a totally different view of these courses. Depending on your background and your comfort level you may want to consider NOT reporting those AP scores to McGill--even if they are 4 and up. While it is encouraged by parents and high school teachers to take these courses, and then report grades on same, it is not necessarily to your advantage.</p>
<p>Maybe freshman year is a bit more than wrestling around with grades, and the adjustments to living away from home and all that are enough without trying to tackle second and third year courses. If you have to "repeat" a bit of work you did in high school, what is the problem with that and what is the rush? Its your university experience and not your parents or your high schools!</p>
<p>Relax, but really do your research (which is not that easy) and find out what courses are waived if you ask for AP credit, particularly if you are going into the sciences. You may find you should have taken the U0 core series classes anyway if you received that 4 or 5 on an AP exam in 10th grade in chem or bio, for example, and have not cracked a book since.</p>
<p>do u know if ur AP scores appear on ur mcgill transcript?</p>
<p>ya i actually discussed this with my AP teachers. since i'm going in physiology and then med, i decided to take my math credits, physics, econ and half of chem, and then i didn't even sign up for the bio AP exam this year cause i figured i wanted a fresh start.</p>
<p>It just shows up on your "transcript" as AP credits, i.e. 12 or 20 or 16 or whatever. It will list the courses you are exempt from depending on the faculty you have been accepted to. SInce you are just entering this fall this will not be up on the system immediately, and when you do you on line advising you will get notice of what you are exempt from and alternatives. No grades for your exams are shown, and they certainly do not enter into any Term GPA or CPGA calculations.</p>
<p>Thats really good rational and proactive thinking on your part to be selective in what is reported and what is not. There is absolutely nothing wrong with taking the AP exams, but you really do not have to report them, even if they are a great scores. That big course catalog they sent you is a mess to read but if you have a pretty good idea what direction you want to take you are all set. Dont worry about taking some of the core courses again--everyone with you is really bright or they wouldnt have even made it to McGill so there is still plenty of competition. We sometimes really get caught up in trying to be sophomores and juniors academically and then miss out on the frosh and soph experience. You'll do great.....its not easy and you have to make your own rules as you go along because no one will tell you what to take or what to do, but you will do great. Just relax! Montreal rules--absolutely the finest U town in North America without question!</p>
<p>thanks for the info and advice! being asian, it's always like be super smart and take super hard classes. it's really refreshing when ppl actually tell me to have fun and enjoy life instead of studying my butt off all the time.</p>