<p>I'm going to be a freshman at Vandy in the fall, and I was wondering how AP tests are used for placement. I'm not interested in getting any credit hours from the school. Instead, I want to be able to take, for example, a more advanced psychology class than the intro level. I feel like I've mastered the info in psychology very well, and I want to learn more about it instead of rehash the stuff I've already learned. I'm also not planning on majoring in psych; I just want to take more psych classes for fun. I saw a lot about how Vandy handles course credit, but I'm not sure about placement. If you have a lot of applicable AP tests, you wouldn't have to choose between which classes you want higher placement in, right?</p>
<p>Have you looked at the classes available for you to take at Vandy? There are some awesome courses from which to choose. If you are not majoring in psych, there is no reason to take a basic psych class. You can fulfill AXLE requirements with an interesting class in the psych area. Take a look through the catalog.</p>
<p>I don’t want to take Into to Psych. I want to take something like Abnormal Psychology instead, which is a 200-level class and requires Intro to Psych.</p>
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<p>You would need a 5 to get credit for psych 101.</p>
<p>I don’t think I made my point clear. I was wondering how the credit angles and the placement angle for Vanderbilt’s AP policy intersect. I know you can only get a certain amount of credit, but what about courses for placement? I do not want to have to chose between which classes I’m placed into.</p>
<p>The “placement” system is equivalent to the “credit” system. You may not move forward in a subject unless you have credit for the prerequisites.</p>
<p>You can take any course that you have satisfied the prerequisites for. So, without a 5 on the AP psych exam, you may take any Psych course with no prerequisites, namely Psych101. There are some upper level classes that do not have prereqs (for example, PSY247: Depression, PSY252: Human Sexuality, and PSY253: Human Memory).</p>
<p>A 5 on the AP Exam gives you credit for Psych 101. So, you may move on to any upper level psych course that has Psych 101 as a prerequisite. This is a wide range of courses like Principles of Experimental Design, Personality, Perception, Emotion, Cognitive Psychology, Mind and Brain, etc.</p>
<p>Just search for “Psych” in the YES enrollment system. You can click on each psychology class; at the end of the course description, it will list prerequisites, if there are any.</p>
<p>Hopefully that answered your question?</p>
<p>You actually can occasionally get instructor approval to take courses that you don’t have the prerequisites for, but you usually have to some other qualification to get approval.</p>
<p>Thanks! I have another question:</p>
<p>There’s no limit to the amount of courses you can get placement for, right? I don’t want to have to chose between which classes to get placement for.</p>
<p>If you in Art&Sciences, yes, there’s a limit. You can only use 18 hours of credit. Doesn’t apply to Engineering students. Those credits also don’t count towards your AXLE requirements.</p>
<p>What? You can only get placement for so many classes? I am really thinking of transferring to Peabody depending on how my scores work out. Assuming I pass I know I want to use these scores:</p>
<ul>
<li>Macroeconomics</li>
<li>Statistics</li>
<li>English Language</li>
<li>Psychology</li>
<li>Spanish Language</li>
<li>US Government</li>
</ul>
<p>That works out to more than 18 credits right there. What a bummer. I guess in a pinch I could just take Comparative Government to get access to the other Polisci courses.</p>
<p>What do you need Statistics credit for?</p>
<p>Also you may not need to use the Spanish Language credit. I think you can place into higher Spanish courses via a test administered by Vanderbilt (unless you are majoring in Spanish in which case you’d want to accept the credit).</p>
<p>But yeah, they limit you to 18 so you’re not skipping all the intro level courses. Intro level courses aren’t bad. If you know the material it should be an easy A anyway. Don’t worry too much about getting ahead. There’s plenty of leeway in A&S majors to fit in extra courses that interest you. </p>
<p>I don’t believe Peabody limits how many credits you can use, but I could be wrong.</p>
<p>Have you looked at the Vanderbilt website? It’s all pretty clear on there.</p>
<p>I need statistics for my economics classes, unless I’m wrong and the econ classes uses a different stat requirement.</p>
<p>The Vanderbilt course equivalent for a 4 or 5 on AP Statistics is Math 127A. For your econ major you will need Econ 150.</p>
<p>Yeah I’m not aware of Math 127 fulfilling any Econ requirement.</p>