Does anyone know if Penn State gives credit for multiple AP classes taken within the same subject area (with a 4 or 5)?
For example, English Lang/English Lit, AP French/AP Spanish etc
http://admissions.psu.edu/academics/credit/ap/
^ It depends. For example, PSU doesn’t really give credit for AP Lang at all, and the AP Lit credit is kind of useless (you get out of English 001…but freshmen are required to take English 015 anyway).
http://admissions.psu.edu/academics/credit/ap/
From the link it seems no credit is given for Ap Lang, but for AP Lit 3 credits with a score 4,5
For AP Spanish: “For a grade of four or five, credit is awarded for Spanish 001, 002, 003 and 100 (15 credits), and the student will be considered as having fulfilled the 12th credit-level foreign language requirement.”
For AP French:"For a grade of 3, credit is awarded for FR 001, 002, 003 (12 credits)
For a grade of four, an additional 3 credits are awarded for FR 201(total of 15 credits).
For a grade of five, an additional 3 credits for French 202 are awarded (total of 18 credits).
For a grade of three or above, the student is considered as having fulfilled the 12th credit-level foreign language requirement."
I looked it up, it says “Duplicate credit in the same subject is not awarded in any case.” So does that mean, that they’ll take either credit for AP Spanish (15 credits ) OR AP French (15 credits) in my case? If they take them both, those two classes alone would put me at a sophomore standing. And how would this work with Psychology/Government/Econ credit both being technically considered “social studies” @mommdc @bodangles
I’m not sure. You will need to find out when you schedule your classes.
Call me crazy, but I wouldn’t consider Spanish and French the same subject.
I think what they mean is that they won’t accept AP credit for macro AND dual-enrollment credit for macro, if you have both. But psychology and economics aren’t the same subject. Having credit for psych won’t get you out of econ. I don’t see why they wouldn’t accept psych for psych and econ for econ.
To receive AP credits you generally need to be able to apply them to your degree program. So French and Spanish AP credit, probably not unless you major in both. Penn State does allow you to use a lot of AP credits for example my daughter receive 50 AP credits and when combined with dual enrollment credits she started as a 6th semester freshmen.
@SCbob Just curious, will your daughter graduate early? I’m looking to having 41/42 credits borderline for 1st/2nd semester sophomore status.
She graduated last spring. The credits aligned well enough with one of her majors that she could have graduated in 3 semesters with a single degree. She preferred to stay the entire 4 years and graduated with 3 bachelor’s and a simultaneous masters degree. Now she’s moved to the West coast and is working on a PhD.
Could someone help me out cause i don’t fully understand this. http://admissions.psu.edu/academics/credit/a-levels/ According to this link, I would be getting a total of 40 credit due to A level Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Psychology and Literature. How would these credits help me out?
@Arrathrone
Chem and Physics: if you want to major in a STEM field, you could use this credit to “skip ahead”–take Organic Chem immediately instead of General Chem, for instance. Could possibly count as a gen-ed in the GN (natural sciences) category.
Math: could skip ahead to the next math class, if STEM (ex. take Calc III instead of I or II). Could possibly count as a gen-ed in the GQ (quantification) category.
Psych: could skip ahead if majoring in psychology. Could possibly count as a gen-ed in the GS (social and behavioral sciences) category.
Literature: extra credits. Everyone has to take the freshman English class, so this doesn’t really help you much.
Regardless of whether you can make some of them count as gen-eds, extra credits are good to have. Then you can be sure you have enough credits to graduate on time.
Look at courses here:
http://bulletins.psu.edu/undergrad/courses/
Gen-Ed info here:
http://bulletins.psu.edu/undergrad/generaleducation/
@bodangles thankyou. I am an aerospace major by the way.
@Arrathrone No problem! I’m a rising sophomore in engineering (hopefully chemical?).
Also, I forgot to mention before that you don’t have to use any or all of your credits. I came in last fall with AP Chem and Calc 1, among others. I retook Calc 1 as honors (would not recommend for engineers); I also used Chem credit to get out of labs, but I retook the lectures.
I strongly advise against jumping into organic as a freshman. You will be competing with upper classmen who have year under their belt and are not going through the adjustment phase.
Do, however, what bodangles did. use your AP credit to get out of the gen chem labs which amount to time consuming busywork. They will not help you understand chemical principles beyond what you will learn in the lecture. retake the lectures.
The only chem course listed in my recommended academic plan is Chem 110. Should I skip it?
if that’s the only one, then yes. I would recommend that.
If you have the AP credits to get out of general chemistry (which presumably means you’re somewhat comfortable with the material), I say skip it. Especially if you’re prospective major isn’t chemistry-intensive. And as a random aside, I took honors organic first semester, and like luvthej said, it was a difficult initial transition. But it’s certainly doable if you go to office hours and stay on top of things. Source: senior in chemical engineering, honors college