<p>At the end of this year I will have taken 6 AP classes in high school and expect to make above a 3 on at least five exams. This Clemson website gives me this information about the classes I will gain credits for:</p>
<p>ENGL 101, 103 6 credits
HIST 101,102 6
MTHSC 106 4
MTHSC 203 3
PSYCH 201 3 (maybe)</p>
<p>Being new to the whole college thing, I'm lost when it comes to what most of that means. What would it mean to go into Clemson with 19-22 credits? Would I be substantially ahead, enough so that I could graduate early or spend a little more time studying abroad? By the way I will be entering General Engineering. Thank you to anyone that can help me out.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.clemson.edu/admissions/undergraduate/documents/apcreditchart.pdf[/url]”>http://www.clemson.edu/admissions/undergraduate/documents/apcreditchart.pdf</a></p>
<p>What they are saying is that if you have the scores given, you will get those classes as having been completed in the Clemson system and given the credit as having completed the class listed. Not sure how Clemson works but there are schools where if you try to do the class for which the credit is being given, then your credit goes away.</p>
<p>So lets say you find Mthsc 108 too hard and switch to 106, your 4 credits are no longer valid since you are repeating this class.</p>
<p>15-18 credit hours is what makes you considered a full time student.</p>
<p>One thing to consider, for example, I already have a calc ab credit, and most likely a calc bc and stats are coming this year. But, as an engineering major, I don’t know that I’ll even want to use those.</p>
<p>The only credits I’ll use are whatever humanities and english I can use. Well also APES.</p>
<p>One advantage of having credits entering Clemson is the possibility of getting to register earlier than your classmates - at Clemson you register by class (0-30 credits → freshman, 30-60 → Sophomore etc…) so you may be able to jump into a higher registration period come spring semester (register as a sophomore instead of a freshman etc…registration order is based off seniority).</p>
<p>As a general engineering major, you’ll won’t have to take your introductory english class ENGL 103, and your social sciences general education requirements (HIST and PSYCH fulfill that) so that’s less classes that you’ll have to take while at Clemson! It’s very rare for engineering majors to graduate early but at least it’ll give you some easier course loads some semesters since you don’t have to take those 3 classes.</p>
<p>FYI - TigerIn13, if you get AP Calculus BC credit, take the credit and run! MTHSC 108 is a brutal class (got A’s and B’s in MTHSC 206/208 but had to retake MTHSC 108 because I failed…). If you need to , review some intro calculus concepts on your own but I would take the credit.</p>
<p>shoot, stats isn’t on the curriculum for my degree anyways…</p>
<p>pierre, is MTHSC 108 known to be a hard class for many? a “weed-out” class? Just want to be sure I wouldn’t miss anything in Calc III</p>
<p>tigerin - My DS has applied to a number of schools. He has figured out the AP stats that he took is basically worthless regardless of which college he ends up going to. Some schools give him general credit and some don’t.Definately not on his curriiculm anywhere :(</p>
<p>great. oh well. nothing wrong extra knowledge I suppose.</p>
<p>tigerin13, don’t worry - many majors are still required to take some sort of statistics class that is very similar to the AP Statistics curriculum so at least you will get an easy A! (and it counts towards your GPA unlike AP credits!)</p>
<p>Not sure if MTHSC 108 is a weed out class but they definitely make it harder than it needs to be. After failing the class at Clemson, I took it at a community college and it was really easy and I got an A. Last semester about 15% of students got A’s in that class</p>