<p>UMass - Boston appears to use a course numbering scheme where 100 courses are frosh level, 200 are soph level, 300 are junior level, and 400 are senior level. 300 and 400 level courses would be the “upper level” courses.</p>
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<p>An overly broad statement… although it is wise to caution high school students that, even when the content is equivalent to a college course at a particular college, the high school environment may differ in that high school typically has more hand-holding while college expects students to be more self-motivated. College may also give harder test questions but use curve grading, rather than holding to the high school norm of giving mostly easy test questions so that C students can get 70% of them correct.</p>
<p><a href=“http://cdn.umb.edu/images/admissions/AP_list_May_17_2013.pdf”>http://cdn.umb.edu/images/admissions/AP_list_May_17_2013.pdf</a> indicates that UMass - Boston allows AP credit for many 100 and 200 level courses. If you want to take more advanced courses for which they are prerequisites, try the final exams for the courses that AP credit may allow you to skip to see how well you know the material.</p>