<p>It depends upon the school. It doesn’t matter what “tier” they are or if they are community college credits. Some schools are just pickier about accepting outside credits. Holy Cross is an example. We know a lot of kids who go there, and that seems to be a resounding, recurrent complaint. </p>
<p>I have seen the most selective schools accept cc credit, but nix credit from a like school depending on the circumstances. If you are a math, engineering, physics, comp sci type major, the departments might be very picky about what calculus credits they will accept, and even if they take the credits insist on placement tests before starting their sequences. There are some calculus courses that are just not designed to be foundations for a heavy math major, and it is doing noone any favor to let the kid think he is adequately prepared when he may not be.</p>
<p>My son had taken a local college Calc 3 course. Though the school was not at all hesitant about taking the calc credits from the AP, they wanted to test him before letting him into Linear Algebra and some other advanced math courses. All they did was ask a few questions about Green’s and SToke’s theorems which they told him often are not covered in Calc 3 courses at colleges that do not have heavy tech type majors, and community or local colleges which was where he took the course. Not insulting CCs or local schools, but this is a matter of fact. As it turns out, the local SUNY which is certainly not a school strong in the math disciplines has the absolutely most fabulous calc teacher I have ever encountered. He teaches the courses thoroughly, rigidly and with vigor. Two of my kids have taken his courses, and I am ever impressed. Yes, he covered the theorems and more. My son was more than prepared to step up. And there are kids who may have taken calc at a very selective college that did not give that foundation. It all depends. But the department would look at a calc course at comm college and want to know how heavily loaded the course was, as a responsibility to the student.</p>