<p>I'm taking a Calculus class at a Community College and I want to know if Yale will accept the credit. If they do, what grade would be necessary? Would a letter grade be shown on my transcript or would they just add the credits?</p>
<p>Yale requires all students to complete 36 units to graduate. It is possible to enroll in upper division math classes after taking APs, CC classes, self-study, etc, but you will not receive credit for them at Yale. Freshmen can take a math placement test on line prior to arriving on campus, and that score, plus other factors like those mentioned above, determine your first math class at Yale.</p>
<p>This question is complicated; you can look at Yale’s website for detailed answers about placement and about accelleration credts. My recollection, which you’d need to check, is that you can’t get accelleration credits for college courses taken elsewhere.</p>
<p>Hunt, was the on-line placement test used in your day? I had the feeling the results of this test, plus transcripts were the prime determinants. She did not have college classes to evaluate.</p>
<p>In my day, I don’t think the term “online” had been coined yet. But the recollection I’m talking about is from looking at the website recently for my son. It’s sometimes hard to parse, but you need to distinguish acceleration creidts (which allow you to graduate in fewer than 8 terms), and placement. You generally can’t use AP or other credits to get out of distributional requirements (although you may be able to reduce the number of terms of foreign language you have to take). Again, the thing to do is look at Yale’s website. I think it’s true you need 36 credits to graduate, and you can’t reduce that with AP, UNLESS you’re going to accelerate and graduate in fewer than 8 terms.</p>
<p>To make this even clearer, I hope, there are three different things at play here:
- Placement, as in what level of math, language, science or English you can get into: here AP can make a difference.
- Acceleration: which means graduating in fewer than 8 terms.
- Satisfaction of distributional requirements, in which I think no credits or courses help you, with the exception of how many terms of foreign language you will have to take.
Again, my recollection is that community college and other college credits can’t be used for acceleration (although I’m not certain about this), and they can’t be used to satisfy distribution requirements. They might be useful for placement, though.</p>
<p>I wonder how many Yale students try to accelerate graduation. </p>
<p>I can see attempting that to save money, but would hate to see someone cut short their time at Yale if there is a way to stay 4 years. I don’t know if the goal of the OP is to graduate early, or if s/he is simply trying to place into higher level math.</p>
<p>Great advice, Hunt, and probably like you, online meant where my mom had hung my jeans to dry.</p>
<p>Here’s the place to start for more info: [Acceleration</a> and Credit | Freshmen | Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/academics/acceleration.html]Acceleration”>http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/academics/acceleration.html)
Here’s one quote on the OP’s question: “Yale does not give acceleration credits for courses taken at another college or university while a student is still enrolled in high school.”
As riverruner said, it looks like Yale’s own online placement test is the prime means of determining what math course you will place into. The community college class counts, in the sense that you will use the knowledge from that class in the placement test. It doesn’t technically count, though, in terms of getting you credit.</p>
<p>riverrunner: when I was there, acceleration credits were useful if say, you were to take a semester abroad and only take a few classes while gone from New Haven. you could return and still be on schedule w/all your buddies to graduate on time. I recalled there was an option to “de-accelerate” so as to not be done too quickly but the specifics escape me.</p>