<p>Do we need to sign up for Advanced Standing Exams?</p>
<p>Also, if we place out of these classes, do we get credit? (like the APs?)</p>
<p>Thanks!!</p>
<p>Another quick question on ASE’s: if we fail them, is there any way for anyone to ever find that out? Or is there really “no harm in trying”?</p>
<p>Information of interest is available at [MIT</a> Incoming Class: Coming-Up](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/firstyear/2013/comingup/asexams.html]MIT”>http://web.mit.edu/firstyear/2013/comingup/asexams.html).</p>
<p>Some ASEs require you to sign up. Others just require you to show up at test time.</p>
<p>Passing an ASE gets you credit for the class.</p>
<p>Because of pass/no record for incoming freshmen, there is indeed “no harm in trying.” There is no record of a failed ASE taken during Orientation. This is not the case for upperclassmen taking ASEs, though, or for ASEs taking during IAP.</p>
<p>@kryptonsa, Just to clarify, so we get the 12 or 9 or however many credits that course is worth if we pass the ASE?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>If you pass the ASE, you get the credit on your transcript as if you had taken and passed the class.</p>
<p>Thanks mollie.</p>
<p>Is your grade on the exam the grade you get for the class on your transcript? (I know it’s a P/F, but they still keep track of grades, no?)</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I was never given the actual letter grade for the ASE I passed. I assume that means the letter grade is not recorded. Since the ASE credit is similar to AP credit, and there are no grades for AP credit, I think this case makes sense.</p>
<p>^Did it just say “P” on your hidden grade transcript? </p>
<p>cubism4nerds, you get a piece of paper with your hidden grades after first semester (where an ASE grade would be, if they’re given at all – it wouldn’t surprise me if they weren’t), but those hidden grades don’t even go on your internal transcript. When you look at your internal MIT transcript for first semester freshman year, it will just list the classes you passed with a P, rather than the letter grade.</p>
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“P&,” where “&” is the designation for ASE.</p>
<p>Maybe that means the actual letter grade IS recorded and hidden somewhere, since AP credit is given as “S.”</p>
<p>But then again…</p>
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… the piece of paper I got didn’t have my ASE grade (it didn’t mention the ASE at all).</p>
<p>@Kryptonsa36,</p>
<p>When we take the ASE, do we need our school to send a transcript and course description saying that we’ve taken that course? I’m not sure what [MIT</a> Incoming Freshman Class: Countdown to Campus-Transfer Credit](<a href=“http://mit.edu/firstyear/2013/countdown/trans_cred.html]MIT”>http://mit.edu/firstyear/2013/countdown/trans_cred.html) refers to… Ahhhhh, thanks so much for all your help folks!! :D</p>
<p>Advanced standing is different from transfer credit. If you want transfer credit – to get MIT credit for a course you took elsewhere – your school needs to send your transcript and sometimes other materials.</p>
<p>Advanced standing gets you credit by examination. You don’t have to have taken the course elsewhere before.</p>