<p>I've taken a number of college courses this past year, and am planning on self-studying a few more humanities APs in hopes of getting credit if I go to MIT next semester. The site (MIT</a> Freshman Class: Right Now - Transfer Credit) mentions that with a "sufficient amount of MIT credit units" gained from transfer or AP credit, we could get early sophomore standing. I was wondering what that amount is.</p>
<p>Thank you! =)</p>
<p>To be eligible for early sophomore standing, you must:</p>
<ul>
<li>have 96 units on your record (includes your frosh fall classes).</li>
<li>note you get 12 units if you pass out of 18.01 via AP Calculus and 9 units of unrestricted elective for every approved AP class that you took. transfer credits are dependent on the department. you may take only 54 units first term (57 if you do terrascope)</li>
</ul>
<p>+have taken a CI-H HASS class during your first term to fulfill the Communications Requirement
*note this is especially important. you can’t qualify for sophomore standing regardless of how many units you have if you don’t fulfill this.</p>
<p>But yeah, if you qualify, you’ll get a letter late November early December offering placement into a major! (and you can vote with the Class of 2013 if you want, which is a bit blasphemous IMO but :P)</p>
<p>Thank you! That was very helpful. =)</p>
<p>What do we get to vote on?</p>
<p>Your class council members.</p>
<p>(and Undergraduate Association reps, but I don’t think that’s class based)</p>
<p>On a related note: are there limitations on which credits MIT accepts as transfer (especially for this purpose?) How do we know whether they’ve been counted if the transcript was already sent from another university?
For example, I took Greek, which MIT doesn’t appear to offer. Can I get credit from it even though there’s no corresponding course (and if so, how much?)</p>
<p>Oh, and what forms of getting credit are counted against the 54-credit limit, aside from ASEs?</p>
<p>There’s not a limit as far as I’m aware, but MIT is very picky about its transfer credit. You may have to take your materials to a transfer credit examiner to get things through. My guess, though, is that Greek will go through, and you’ll receive HASS credit for it.</p>
<p>ASE’s, to my knowledge, don’t count against your limit if you take them when you arrive on campus. If you take them in December, they will count towards your limit. If you take them in January, they won’t count against your limit (but they will count as A/B/C/NR instead of P/NR).</p>
<p>Things may have changed since my freshman year, though :)</p>
<p>Ah, got it. I was misinterpreting something from the math website. That’ll help, then.</p>
<p>When you say “materials”, do you mean transcript (and possibly textbooks or their tables of content) or more in-depth than that (classwork, which I definitely didn’t keep around upon moving out…)?
Is it typically 9 or 12 units per class?</p>
<p>Thanks for the (quick!) answers!</p>
<p>The math website probably outlines it better, but I think it’s things like syllabus and table of contents? From my understanding, it is 9-12 units per class, though can go lower.</p>
<p>96 credits is not enough to get sophomore standing. I have exactly 96 credits including a CI-H, and when I asked the Dean why I didn’t get sophomore standing, she said I needed 98 credits on top of the other requirements. I’m not sure where this number comes from, but it really sucks.</p>