Basic questions, e.g. When's X-mas Break?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>Any one know when christmas break starts/ends approximatly.
Does orientation start Aug. 20th?!
Does Cornell, specifically CALS accept AP credits?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>academic calendar: <a href="http://www.cornell.edu/academics/calendar/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.cornell.edu/academics/calendar/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Credits: <a href="http://admissions.cornell.edu/bulletins/AdvancedPlacementIntlCredentials.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://admissions.cornell.edu/bulletins/AdvancedPlacementIntlCredentials.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Orientation starts Aug. 19; the schedule at that website is for 2004.</p>

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<p>but if you click the "05-06" button at the top.....</p>

<p>but since people are getting picky about having to click twice :p
<a href="http://www.cornell.edu/academics/calendar/2005-06.cfm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.cornell.edu/academics/calendar/2005-06.cfm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>i heard that if you get a 5 on the ap literature exam that places you out of the writing seminars required for freshman year of arts and sciences....does anyone know if this is true??</p>

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<p>now when it says place out does that mean u get credit for it?</p>

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<p>i dunno, cornell's system is kinda weird, you do get credit for it, but it actually doesn't help you graduate early or anything, because there is some rule where you have to graudate with 120 credits from WITHIN the university....so ap classes really don't do anything besides place you out of survery classes</p>

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<p>Sparticus, I meant that the o-week schedule is still for 2004 (I was referring to your other thread, actually)...but you are correct in that the calenders for the next few years are up.</p>

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<p>Yea, I can't get everything wrong can I? haha</p>

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<p>you do get credit for it, but it varies among colleges. I know arts has a stipulation that 100 out of 120 MUST be in CAS (so 20 can be out including AP and others) and has another stipulation in that you MUST take an upperlevel class that has the AP class for prereq or else you won't get credit. So taking AP Econ and getting a 5 on it isn't going to do you any good if you don't take Econ 301 (?) at Cornell. CAS is really getting hard in terms of graduation requirements and such -- one of the reasons I transferred to HUMEC :-p</p>