<p>I took my spanish placement exam and passed out of the first four semesters of Spanish (the lsa requirement, although I'm in engineering so I don't actually have a requirement). Does Michigan award retroactive credits for placing out of courses if you continue on with the language? Also, I was placed into Spanish 277 however, I took IB Spanish HL and will almost certainly be earning credit for that exam. This means I will be awarded credits for Spanish 277 as well as Spanish 373. How does this affect my placement result? I assume my IB score would override my placement exam would since its in the IB guidelines. Does anyone have experience with this or know if it is true?</p>
<p>Did you go to the orientation and meet with the adviser yet? My D was told the placement exam got her 8 credit of Spanish already although I still have some doubt. They have reduced the number of credit awarded to AP Spanish in recently that I am not sure if the adviser is really uptodate.</p>
<p>@billcsho thats definitely true. The credit awarded isn’t based off AP Spanish Scores, just the placement exam. If she scored little above average that means she passed out of 2 semesters of spanish (8 credits) so she’s half way through the language requirement (4 semesters of Spanish)</p>
<p>My D is in CoE that it actually does not have language requirement.</p>
<p>I was at orientation this week for coe. I placed out of 4 semesters of Spanish and this is the most the placement test will allow you to place out of. However, I only received 8 credits for this as opposed to 16. When I receive my IB scores in July, my placement will then be based upon those scores. I’ll earn 7 credits for that exam. However the most credits Michigan will award me for Spanish placement is 8 so those 7 credits will override 7 of the 8 credits I earned from my placement exam. Essentially, I will have placed out of the first 4 semesters of Spanish, Spanish 277, and Spanish 373 and I will earn 8 Spanish credits in the process.</p>
<p>The posts above suggest that passing out of the Spanish requirement provides 8 credits, but my son, who did pass out, did not receive any credits (at least so far and his AP credits are there). He took the placement exam several weeks ago. Based on the AP guidelines, it appears you still need the AP score to get credits. He already has plenty of credits but I was just wondering if anyone got credits solely for passing out of the two year requirement.</p>
<p>This is confusing and it may due to a recent AP credit policy change. My D’s CoE adviser said she got 8 credits for Spanish from her placement exam which put her at 277. While AP Spanish with 4 or 5 will only grant 4 credit as 277 equivalent. Will she then get a total of 12 credits? In the past, they grant a lot more credits to AP Spanish. I am not sure if it is now partly granted through placement exam.</p>
<p>Does her unofficial transcript give her the 8 credits? I could be different for CoE and LSA.</p>
<p>Placement exam credits are not shown on the unofficial transcript (yet). Only the AP credits are there right now.</p>
<p>As I mentioned in the original post, I am in college of engineering, not LSA. So yes, I did earn 8 credits for placing out of the language requirement. LSA is different, but my information is true for COE students. I earned 8 credits for the placement exam, which is the maximum credit allowed by test for a language in COE. I just earned 7 credits for my IB Spanish exam as well so those will override 7 the placement exam credits. Like I said, this information is for COE. It is not intended to be misleading and it is not incorrect. I have no clue how it works for LSA.</p>
<p>The placement exam credit is now shown in my D’s unofficial transcript. Instead of 8 credits that the CoE advisor said she will get from the placement, she get 4 credit for Spanish 232 (Second Year Spanish) plus 4 credit from AP for 277. So the total is still 8 credits.</p>
<p>By the way, all 8 credits are considered IB instead of half for humanities and half for general electives.</p>
<p>My son is in LSA and at least so far did not get credit for passing out of the language requirement. Maybe LSA does not give the credit but I would be curious to know if anyone else in LSA got credit for passing out.</p>
<p>@2135ar, my son is in LSA as well. He did not get any credit for passing 4 semesters of Latin language requirements. He was told that he would only get 8 RETRO credits (= half of those 16) if he signed up for the 5th semester Latin. Since he’s not planning to do so, he now has 16 extra credits to spend on other interesting classes.</p>
<p>Thanks parentOf2018. My son also does not really need the credits with so many APs. Trying to not pay junior tuition until Winter of Sophomore year.</p>
<p>@2135ar We are on the same boat. My D did not have too much AP credit, but it is enough to push her to pay upperclassman tuition in Fall of Sophomore. Now she need to drop at least 7 credits to delay that higher tuition by one semester. As of now, she only need to fulfill 6 humanities credits (3 in 300 level) and 1 more IB credit. If she dropped 7 credits, she will need to take 8 more IB credits before graduation. So basically the cost of that 7 credits is ~$2000 minus the effort to retake them. We are still debating which way to go. I will probably wait till mid term to see if she can handle the first semester very well. If so, she may take a few more credits than originally planned (at 14) while keeping those 7 credits. That would make the $2000 cost for 10 credits more worth while.</p>