<p>Is there a maximum amount of AP credits you can obtain from NU?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure its 12 units</p>
<p>But remember, only 2 can be used towards distros, so it's not as much help as you'd think. 10 elective credits is nice but you still have to take all the distros.</p>
<p>The limit is 12, but, as dfleish, said only 2 can count toward distros... Weinberg: *"For students entering in Fall 2006 or later, a maximum of two AP or IB credits, each in a different area, can count toward distribution requirements." * Check out <a href="http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/advising/apib.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/advising/apib.html</a> for more info on Weinberg policy.</p>
<p>can you guys give examples of how you used (or didnt use) all of your AP credits? also, if you have high enough credit for the major science ap's can you only use a certain few and not all</p>
<p>What is a "distro?"</p>
<p>zoomers- distro is short for distribution. go here for information about them:
<a href="http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/advising/distro.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/advising/distro.html</a></p>
<p>I'm in school of comm, so my requirements are a bit different than weinberg. I also didn't qualify for as many AP credits as I was hoping (scored 4 in a few subjects where you need a 5 to get any credit). I ended up using 2 AP Calc credits toward my Sci/Math area as well as a D.C. (double counted) elective credit. Same for my APUSH credits. It's a bit confusing but you get advising on all this stuff during New Student Week.</p>
<p>asdf11, thanks for the link.</p>
<p>juliusmonky, it's a good thing you get advising on all of this during New Student Week because I sure didn't understand what I was reading.</p>
<p>i am so confused. the link kinda helps...but can anyone in WCAS give an example of how they used their AP Credit?</p>
<p>You'll meet with your PA (Peer Adviser) who can give you advice on courses, etc. as well as a meeting with your academic adviser who will give you a sheet and map out the distributions requirements as well as your major requirements. If you have a cool PA they'll offer to guide you through registration...if not there are labs where people can help. It took me a couple quarters to actually get a grasp of all the academic stuff.</p>
<p>I assume there's a similar process in other schools besides WCAS. Yes? It's very confusing, to me anyway. I hope it makes more sense when I am out there.</p>
<p>I know this board is supposed to be educational, but this is just plain laziness. LOOK IT UP! All this information can be obtained in under 4 minutes from NU's website. I'm not going to endorse laziness and exceptionalism by discussing this any further.
Honestly, this topic might be the most overdone on this, or any, board. If you think you're going to NU, then getting even the most rudimentary of research skills might help.</p>
<p>In Medill, there is no limit to the amount of AP credits that can be used toward distros. Just so ya know. :)</p>
<p>I would give an example but I did this before they changed the AP policy. So I used:</p>
<p>My 5 on AP US to get 2 credits towards History distro (done)
My 5 on AP Calc to get 2 credits towards Formal Studies distro (done)
My 5 on Bio and 4 on Chem to get 2 credits towards Science distro (done)</p>
<p>My 5 on Statistics didn't give me any distro help, but it gave me elective credits towards Stats. </p>
<p>Note that: now you can only get out of 2 total distro credits and they must be in different areas; I am in SESP, which has the same requirements as WCAS except no Social Sciences distro; and normally one of my science credits would not be used, but SESP accepted it for some reason (if you look on the website, a 5 on AP Bio shouldn't help towards your science distro, but it did for me). </p>
<p>So...this probably didn't help at all, haha.</p>
<p>It did help, dfleish, thanks.</p>
<p>Cerebral Assassin, you certainly and appropriately chose the "ASSASSin" part of your moniker. Not all of us have the time you must have to delve into every corner of the NU web site. Many of us are starting with little or no experience so it takes more than 4 minutes to figure out where to navigate to. Since you are such an expert, you'd be a great resource but choose to be a jerk.</p>
<p>This board is for questions and answers. If you have no patience, just skip over the "lazy" of us who have fundamental questions and little time and quit with the condescending comments. I'm relieved you won't be discussing this further because you were zero help.</p>
<p>Your remarks were nasty and unnecessary and I hope there are fewer than more of you at NU. You sound arrogant and pompous.</p>
<p>I guarentee you that it you could find info on NU's AP policy faster than it takes to get to this board. <a href="http://www.northwestern.edu%5B/url%5D">www.northwestern.edu</a> and then search "AP Policy" takes 45 seconds? A minute if you have dial-up? Also, this way you aren't susceptible to the conjecture and educated guessing of the people who answer your question. </p>
<p>Knowing NU's AP policy doesn't make me pompous or arrogant. It makes the slightest bit well-read and shows that I have the most minute of desires to actually get my facts right. Novel concept, I know.</p>
<p>Condescending and arrogant, I know.</p>
<p>This is a bit of a tangent but does anyone know for sure how the NU placement exams work?</p>
<p>I'm a bit confused on how advanced placement and credits work. If you score a sufficiently high score and certify for a higher sequence course do you actually get 'credit' for the classes you skip, credits that can actually be counted towards the distro requirements, or do you simply skip the classes and take a higher course?</p>
<p>I'm 99.9993485973% sure that you do NOT get credit toward your major for any courses you test out of through the NU placement exams. </p>
<p>Those placement tests are only used to ensure that you start out taking courses at the level you're truly at, and you're not bored or re-learning things in a lower-level class. At least, that's what I've gathered so far. If I'm wrong, somebody please correct me.</p>