<p>Er, I'm still sorta confused about the whole "boosting registration" thing...How do you hold your AP scores right now and then give them to receive credit in the future? Also, what are the credit requirements for a Finance/Int'l Business double major? And for a Finance/Marketing double major?</p>
<p>i really dont understand what you guys are saying....??? how is it better not to put in the credit at the beginning? why would that leave you with no credit in the end? i mean, wouldnt u have taken the end classes earlier then...if u had applied credit early on??? i dont get it?????</p>
<p>also.....whats all this talk about boosting registration time? why do u want to and how do u do it????? and how does it work?</p>
<p>Oh dear.</p>
<p>Boosting registration:
NYU does all registration of classes through ALBERT, an online application that you guys may or may not have experienced. Basically, you search for a course, and, pending its availability, you can register for it. You'll see; that's not important for now. Registration, except for your first semester (when you register during orientation), is done over the period of one week. Not everyone registers all at once---ALBERT would get much too congested and it would slow down the site. Therefore, NYU assigns registration times to people. You will be notified that you will register, at, say, Friday at 10:15 AM. (This would be one of the last registration times.) Registration times are assigned according to the credit you have with NYU. Therefore, logically, the upperclassmen would register before the underclassmen. Of course, an earlier registration time is favorable, as you will have a greater chance of getting into the class you want.</p>
<p>So, in this case, if you were to apply all your AP credit at once, you would have more credit to your name at NYU, and your registration time would be earlier. It's just a little "perk," a convenience at registration time, but it has its repercussions...</p>
<p>Say you are entering Stern, and you have qualifying scores (4 or 5) on three tests: AP US Government, AP Chemistry, and AP Calculus. I know the rules have changed concerning AP Calc (I don't think you can forgo taking a math course at Stern anymore), but for the sake of this example, let's say that having your AP Calc score means you can forgo the class. SO...</p>
<p>As an entering freshman, you can apply your AP Calc credit to fulfill your math requirement, and your AP Chemistry credit to fulfill your Natural Science requirement. However, AP Government does not fulfill a specific requirement in the Stern core curriculum (neither a general education requirement nor a Stern core requirement). Thus, it could still count as credit, but it would count as a general education elective. The general education electives are 32 credits that can be taken outside of your core and your major...32 credits to do whatever you want with. If you applied your AP Govt credit to these 32 credits, you would have 4 additional credits registered to your name, and your registration time would likely be maybe a day earlier. However, say you want to pursue a second major or a minor in CAS. If you applied your AP Govt credit, you would only have 28 credits (32 minus the 4 you filled with AP Govt) to pursue other interests. So, if you wait to apply the credit (you can apply AP credit at any time you wish), then you will have more empty space to pursue more interests.</p>
<p>Boosting your registration time really isn't important. Apply credit where you can fulfill your basic requirements, and save your other AP credit, if any, for later. Please note that AP credit, once applied, cannot be removed from your record. My advice is that the freedom to pursue your interests as they grow is much more important than getting a better time for that class you want.</p>
<p>This will be explained to you by your advisor once you get to NYU anyway...but does that answer your questions?</p>
<p>DreamDragon -- for credit requirements, check <a href="http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/Ug%5B/url%5D">http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/Ug</a> (the Stern Undergraduate Business School website). Look for a link to the 2004-2006 Stern Bulletin, or investigate the undergraduate program for your individual major + co-major or what have you. There are no special stipulations for a double major; just look at the requirements for each individual major.</p>
<p>thank u sooo much...</p>
<p>ok...so u are saying that ap credits that fullfill something should be applied but those that are just gen ed should not because then u wont be able to take the other classes u want????</p>
<p>but why would ap credits take away from the 32 credits that u are actually paying for?
are those 32 within all 4 years? are they required??</p>
<p>She's not saying DON'T apply them, she's saying wait and see. If you have extra room in your requriements and you don't want to take more classes or you're trying to graduate in 3 years with a single major (which some people do) then by all means, sit down with your advisor, and apply the credit.</p>
<p>The reason it takes away from the 32 credits "you are paying for" is because you're not actually paying per credit. You're paying as a full time student, to recieve a Bachelor's degree (in the case of Stern, a B.S.) which takes 128 credits to get. Therefore, if you bring it extra credits, you logically have less credits to complete. It's like transferring in from another college. If you went to a local school for 2 years and then transferred, you wouldn't want to still have to take 4 years of school, right? You'd only take 2 more years because you brought credit in.</p>
<p>As for the 32 elective credits. Yes they are required, without them, you can't reach 128 credits to graduate. You can take them whenever you like, some people save them to study abroad (since through NYU there aren't as many options for Sternies...more on that when you get to school though). If you want to see where everything fits in to your four years, go to the stern ug website, look under advising, and click curriculum records. There you can pick your major or just look at a blank CR to see what your schedule will kind of look like for the next four years.</p>
<p>hunter1985, that may be for the MAP for CAS kids or something, but on the Stern undergrad standing site it says the following:</p>
<p>Writing/Exposition
All students entering Stern as freshmen are required to complete an 8-credit writing sequence. No credit toward degree requirements is currently granted for prior coursework or examination results in writing or exposition. Page 3 of 4 </p>
<p>This page is pretty new too. <a href="http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/emplibrary/ACF7P3bet.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/emplibrary/ACF7P3bet.pdf</a></p>
<p>so...is this whole business of "applying credit" relevant to CAS students, or specifically to Stern students with their 32 elective credits?
I can get 12 total credits for AP Euro and US Hist and AP Eng, but these do not get me any exemptions--so should I not apply them immediately, or does it not matter???</p>
<p>Oh, ok supervillian, that would be the source of the confusion, as I'm entering CAS. Mine came from the MAP for CAS students, so there ya go. </p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
<p>I still don't understand why you can't simply take more credits than you need to graduate!</p>
<p>hunter1985 you lucky bastard! :]</p>
<p>poppins --- I think it can apply to CAS students. CAS general education requirements are different from Stern, so each school has different standards for how AP credit can be applied. (For instance, maybe AP US History fulfills a requirement there, but it doesn't at Stern --- speaking hypothetically, because I simply don't know.) If you find the CAS AP equivalency chart, which tells you what AP tests can be applied for what credit, and it says "General education" next to the test...it means that test can only be applied for general credit rather than fulfilling a requirement. So the issue applies across schools, but in different ways.</p>
<p>angelnikki --- NYU requires you complete 128 credits to graduate. The financial aid package you receive complies exactly with the 128 credits --- or, generally speaking, 32 credits per year, 16 credits per semester. If you go OVER 128 credits, then your financial aid DOES NOT APPLY. If you do not have financial aid, don't worry about it, because NYU's not helping to pay for your education there anyway. But if you do have financial aid, NYU will not help you pay for courses you take over 128 credits.</p>
<p>hunter/supervillain --- I've never heard of anyone surpassing the Writing the Essay requirement...though I guess if you have actual college credit, it may be possible. Ask your advisor at freshman registration. Supervillain, be aware that all schools EXCEPT CAS (including Stern, of course) take TWO writing classes...Writing the Essay first semester, and the Advanced College Essay second semester. (That's 8 credits.)</p>
<p>random fact: ive been informed that ugrad hotel management in scps also gets out of writing the essay</p>
<p>so let me get one thing straight, lets say i don't want to apply my ap credit now (b/c i might want to double major and i need enough credits) but it turns out i didnt want to double major and don't really want to take anymore courses during my senior year. i can apply my credit later on if i want right?</p>
<p>So, if I want to double major in say...French and Biology (just an example)- two totally different majors with no interchanging requirements... is that even possible if you only have 32 credits outside your major, and both the majors require 40 credits?</p>
<p>BigRed --- yess, AP credit can be applied at any time.</p>
<p>ranisparkle --- I haven't seen what the CAS curriculum record looks like, and how MAP works within CAS. The 32 credits outside one's major is for the Stern School, which is outside a set of general education requirements (where the overlap between CAS and Stern occurs), the Stern business core, and 12 credits for the Stern major. (The Stern major is less credits because we receive experience in every one of the majors within the core, in case anyone wonders about that.) Therefore, it's likely that outside MAP, CAS students will have more credits to use at their disposal. I don't see any way NYU would prevent its students from double-majoring in CAS.</p>
<p>thanks caromage!</p>
<p>just an update for people who had been following this thread. Although in prior years any AP Credit that didn't go to a MAP exemption was just counted as general elective credit, it seems Stern has changed their policies this year. See this .pdf <a href="http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/emplibrary/ACF7P3bet.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/emplibrary/ACF7P3bet.pdf</a> for further explanation. Basically, they're doing what CAS is doing and offering course equivalencies for SOME AP tests, meaning for tests like AP US and Calc, bringing in the credit will substitute for taking a CAS class.</p>
<p>As an example, for me, I have the following unapplied AP credit:
US History
American Government
English Lit
Calc BC (4 more credits left after applying for math exemption - which you guys don't have anymore)</p>
<p>If I apply ALL of that credit:</p>
<p>US History and Calc BC have course equivalencies, therefore the credit I recieve for them counts as CAS liberal arts electives.</p>
<p>American Government and English Lit do NOT have course equivalencies, therefore for them I just recieve general elective credit that otherwise could have gone to a second major in Stern.</p>
<p>umm i guess this is a general question about ap scores... if we told them to send this year's ap scores, will it automatically send previous year's scores to our school, or do we have to contact the college board to tell them to send all of our scores now?</p>
<p>Your score report will report all test scores unless you pay to withold selected scores.</p>
<p>I'm gonna bump this topic for those new applicants wondering about transferring credits, aps, and such with a report on my situation:</p>
<p>I just checked Albert and discovered that my 20 credits from a dual-credit program at St. Norbets did indeed transfer to NYU and were counted towards MAP courses. I am now exempt from WTE, as well as the expressive cultures requirement (another English course) and QuantReas (a calc credit). The other 8 credits are down as general electives, however it is only because I recently decided to double major in econ and compsci, and once that change is made those 8 credits should be applied towards my major. </p>
<p>So I guess yay for college credit classes, being exempt from WTE, and no extra "fatty" gen-elect credits to hurt me in the future :)</p>