<p>Does UChicago offer credit only if you have taken BOTH Comparative and U.S. Government AP exams?</p>
<p>It says "and" on their site, but I want to know whether anyone was successful with only one.</p>
<p>B U M P!</p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>C'mon, 48 views and no one knows?</p>
<p>I'm wondering the same thing about the Econs...</p>
<p>There have been a zillion threads about AP credit. The reason no one is answering your question is because even you don't care about the answer.</p>
<p>If you get credit, all you get is elective credit, which you don't want to use unless you are desperate to graduate as early as possible. Short of such desperation, the last thing in the world you want to give up is a chance to take an elective at the University of Chicago. (Well . . . maybe not the very last thing, but close.) If the credit was going to get you out of a requirement that you hate (e.g., math, or physical science, if you are a hard-core art type), then that's interesting. Elective credit isn't valuable at all.</p>
<p>You won't get credit towards your major. You might get placement in a higher level course, but you could probably talk or test your way into that regardless of your APs. And the chances are slim and none that your AP Gov or AP Econ classes were really the equivalents of the introductory classes in those subjects at Chicago. You may not actually want to skip them.</p>
<p>So, basically, no one cares whether they get credit or not for courses like that. You shouldn't care, either.</p>
<p>Both are great courses to have 5's on, but the kind of content they teach is no where near on the level of rigor you will encouter in a UChicago poli sci course. The main difference is the department does not use textbooks that clearly tell you in bullet format what you need to know. AP govt is definitely a spark note type subject, e.g. the steps to amend the constitution or the main SCOTUS cases governing free speech.</p>