<p>I know APs don’t fulfill tuition credits and all that, and many departments say that they won’t be used to fulfill concentration requirements, but it does say credit will be given. How is this credit noted? You don’t receive a grade, right? Does it go on your transcript, or what? Basically, besides placing out of intro classes, what is the result of having scored highly on the AP exams?</p>
<p>It's really confusing, but here is my understanding. </p>
<p>APs CANNOT be counted towards your 30 credit requirement for Brown. </p>
<p>APs CAN, however, in addition to placement, be counted towards your TUITION requirement. So, if you load up on classes and take 5 each semester, you can graduate early and use your APs for the tuition requirement. However, very few people end up doing this. I really would not want to graduate early.</p>
<p>Yeah, me either. So that's it? Just the ability to graduate early if you want? Whatever, I'll take it, since they're usually used to place out of requirements and WE DON'T HAVE ANY!</p>
<p>Related question: How many credits does Brown accept in total from outside institutions? Is there a limit, assuming they are all eligible.</p>
<p>Also, 30 seems very low. Five classes is typical at most schools. What am I not seeing?</p>
<p>Really? I always thought the norm was 4 classes/semester.</p>
<p>Yea, I guess. The minimum is usually between 3 and 4. The expected load is 4. However, most of the people around me and people I know tend to stay with 5. I did too for some reason, since 4 held a slacker minority image in my head.</p>
<p>Do you have an answer for my original question?</p>
<p>It doesn't say anything about a limit on the website.</p>
<p>4 is def. the standard at most schools. A few schools require a bit more than that, though. (Yale requires a few semesters with 5 classes.) I think the 30 instead of 32 is to give you a bit of wiggle room to drop a class or be able to study abroad/away and not be totally screwed if your courses don't carry over completely. (That happened to a few kids I know at other colleges, and they had to have a crazy senior year schedule because of it.)</p>
<p>I go to Brown and when I first started there are a lot of people who are like, "4 classes? Screw that I'm taking 5." But our Residential Counselors (RC's) were like "Everyone takes 4 classes, insane people with no lives take 5." What people don't realize is that 4 classes at one school might not exactly translate to 4 classes at another. This is especially hard to gauge at Brown because there are no credits to determine the amount of time put into a given class. I'm not sure if I'm ever going to take 5 classes here, people also need time to join groups, party, hangout... stuff like that. You have to be at Brown for at least 7 semesters anyway, so it doesn't matter to get ahead of the game.</p>
<p>Also, in response to the main topic... AP's don't mean ***** at Brown. I can expand on this if you want, but it's really just a personal achievement goal coming out of high school.</p>
<p>actually I would like you to expand a little bit. Especially since my friend who's a biochem major told me tons of kids use AP Chem to place out of CH10 and into CH33.</p>
<p>everyone places out of ch10 unless you've had no chem before. something like over 90% of those who take the placement test place out.</p>
<p>if you plan on studying bio, AP bio is really helpful! i got to pass out of bi20, and it counts toward my concentration in biophysics (same with AP physics C; it let me pass out of ph5 and count it for my concentration).</p>
<p>Tell me then, how do units transfer over? What is their credit to valid courses ratio? </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>