<p>I'm a current junior and a prospective Yalie--if admissions go my way--and I have a question about acceleration credits at Yale (and schools like it). By the end of Senior Year, I will have taken 4 AP courses--low by CC standards, but a lot for my school--and I was wondering if that means that I would only have to take 32 courses at Yale as opposed to the regular 36. I've checked and seen that all of the Tests I will take (Chem this year, Bio, Spanish, and BC Calc next) qualify, but I was confused as to whether that means I get to take less courses (and be consequently less stressed) during my college years at Yale (or other institutions like it), or do I simply get to start out in more advanced classes. Thanks!</p>
<p>The latter, and you don’t necessarily want to use it.</p>
<p>Also, I believe you have to take an on-campus math placement test, because so many students come into Yale with 5s on some sort of AP Calculus test.</p>
<p>The math placement test is only intended for placement into 112, 115, and 120, but it meaningless. When I went to preregister for 120, they didn’t even look at it. You can get in whichever class you want regardless of your score.</p>
<p>As I understand it, you can only use acceleration credits to graduate in fewer than eight terms–you can’t use them to take a lighter load over eight terms. In general, they also will not help you avoid distributional requirements either. AP in your foreign language can be used in place of Yale’s placement test–but you still have to take at least one term of foreign language.</p>