<p>Has anybody argued for AS and/or A-level Credit and been successful? If so, any tips?</p>
<p>You mean, college credit for A-levels the same way colleges give credit for AP exams? </p>
<p>Most colleges I know give credit for high A-level results (semi-)automatically. You might have to fill out a form requesting your high school work to be evaluated for transfer credit, but that’s about it. In that case there’s no need to “argue.” </p>
<p>Does your college not grant you credit? In that case, did they give you an explicit reason why not? That would be the key here. A few (very selective) colleges just don’t like to give college credit for high school work, and they won’t make an exception for A-levels. Some other colleges (especially without a significant international student population) may not have enough experience with foreign school systems - in that case, an official evaluation of your academic credentials might help.</p>
<p>No no, this school recognizes the A-Levels, and gives credit for some of them. However, lets take A-Level Spanish for example. I get no credit for that, despite it being considerably more difficult than AP Spanish Language as well as having a portion of comparable to that of AP Spanish Lit. </p>
<p>I was wondering if anyone had gone and argued about it, maybe printing both syllabi and show them they are at least of equal rigor/content?.</p>
<p>Do you know the reason why they don’t give credit for A-level Spanish? If not, there is very little you can do. </p>
<p>If the reason is that they do believe that A-level Spanish is below AP Spanish, there are a few things you can try depending on how cooperative the registrar’s office is. Printing syllabi might work, but only if the registrar actually feels like reading both syllabi. Having a Spanish professor support your request might help otherwise. You might also need “official” proof that your A-level Spanish is equivalent to or exceeds AP Spanish - for example, a course-by-course evaluation of your high school work, done by an academic credential evaluation company (this might cost a few hundred bucks, however). </p>
<p>Also make sure that the person you are talking to actually has the authority to give you credit. There probably are not many people that may make decisions against established college guidelines.</p>
<p>No clue. I was going to speak with them yesterday, but in the end I wasn’t able to. I’ll be calling on Monday to get a clearer picture, but I wanted to see if there was any prior experience on this. </p>
<p>The school I speak of is University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Now, they offer some sort of “Special Exams” that are really ‘defined’ by each of department, i.e. they do whatever they want regarding them. Thus, I get the idea if I can convince the departments in particular to give me credit for the A-Level Spanish, and maybe some of the AS Level classes, then I should be set. None of these classes are for my major or anything, just Liberal Arts Requirements, so I think that help me out.</p>
<p>If you only want to get out of the language requirement, why don’t you just take the Language Proficiency Exam? <a href=“https://langtest.umn.edu/lpe/what[/url]”>https://langtest.umn.edu/lpe/what</a></p>
<p>It looks like the “Special Exam” in Spanish is not what you are looking for. In order to get course credit (as opposed to just being exempted from the language requirement) for a language via the Special Exam, you have to take one more course beyond the course you tested out of. (See point 2 under Limitations: [special</a> credit](<a href=“http://advisingtools.class.umn.edu/manual/5_6.html]special”>http://advisingtools.class.umn.edu/manual/5_6.html))</p>
<p>Right. It’s not that I want to go deeper into Spanish but rather, I want to cash in the Literature credit that I could receive if they counted the A-Level Spanish as, say, AP Spanish Lit or whatnot. </p>
<p>I hadn’t seen the website. Nice find. And yeah, I know they are not exactly what I’m looking for, though I had thought that their existence might imply an easier time convincing them to give me credit for these AS/A levels.</p>