Last updated February 27, 2006
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The College Board provides a web page to find the AP credit policies
of any college or university.
http://apps.collegeboard.com/apcreditpolicy/index.jsp
Many students enter Brown with some form of prior college-level work such as Advanced Placement exams, courses at other colleges, A-Level examinations, or International Baccalaureate exams. This work may be used as prerequisites to take more advanced courses at Brown. Some of these credentials may be used to earn advanced standing and tuition credit so the student can graduate one or two semesters earlier.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
You may earn college credit in one or more subjects through the College Board Advanced Placement (AP) Program. Hopkins grants academic credit as listed below. Other AP examinations not listed may be accepted for placement purposes by petitioning department chairs.
International Baccalaureate students may receive advanced placement credit for higher-level International Baccalaureate (IB) courses if they attain IB grades of 6 or 7 for the following subjects:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
For most secondary school subjects that closely parallel the College Board Advanced Placement guidelines, the only method for generating credit at MIT is through the regular College Board Advanced Placement tests. Students wishing to receive such credit are urged to take those AP tests for which they are prepared.
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Each year over 90-percent of the University's incoming freshmen receive advanced placement credit. Northwestern acknowledges the educational value of AP courses by granting credit and/or placement as indicated in the chart below. In some fields—primarily in the sciences and foreign languages—advanced placement and/or credit can be earned through appropriate performance on examinations administered by Northwestern departments, usually during New Student Week.
Northwestern does not offer credit for AP results in comparative government or music.
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
The advanced placement policy at Princeton is designed to give recognition to college-level work prior to matriculation and to allow you to pursue your studies at a level appropriate to your preparation. If you have been granted sufficient advanced placement units in the appropriate number of subject areas, you may be eligible for advanced standing (see below), which will permit you to graduate in either three or three and one-half years.
West Point
"Cadets may be excused from (validate) certain core courses if they
have sufficient knowledge of a subject to meet appropriate department’s
standards. Credit earned in other colleges, Advanced Placement
Examination scores, and tests administered at the Military Academy are
considered in validation decisions. Advanced Placement Examination’s
scores may be used in mathematics, physics, chemistry, history, social
sciences, and foreign languages. Validation of core courses allows a
cadet to substitute an additional elective in place of a core course.
If a cadet shows unusual ability or has prior knowledge of the subject,
but does not validate the course, he/she may be enrolled in an advanced
or accelerated version."
Freshmen who have already completed advanced work are encouraged to pursue higher-level courses. Students' scores on Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate examinations or on appropriate SAT II Subject Tests determine their eligibility to enroll in intermediate or advanced courses their first year. Yale's objective is to encourage students to take courses that will challenge them at the appropriate level from the very beginning.
In addition to being able to enroll in advanced-level courses, students with exceptional preparation in certain areas may be eligible to accelerate -- that is, to complete their degrees and graduate early by acquiring sufficient acceleration credits. Acceleration credits are acquired by high scores on Advanced Placement examinations, International Baccalaureate examinations, A-level examinations, or other international examinations. They are also awarded at the end of freshman year to students who have satisfactorily completed an appropriate advanced course at Yale. Yale does not give acceleration credits for courses taken at another college or university while a student is still enrolled in high school. The examinations mentioned above are the only way to gain acceleration credits from such work in high school, and these credits are only applicable if the student decides to accelerate.