| You will not receive credit for AP. You will perhaps be able to place out of intro or lower level courses. There are plenty of upper level courses that need to be "climbed" into, by taking pre-requisites one step at a time. If you do well on APs, then you might be able to enter on a higher rung in the pre-req ladder. You cannot graduate without taking and passing 30 courses, beginning with courses that are appropriate for you, based on your interests and in the cases of classes that need pre-reqs, based on AP/SAT II scores.
You can take whatever classes you want at Brown, providing you fulfill your concentration (major) requirements. That means the number of classes and the particular classes themselves that the department has set. If you place out of lower level classes, you replace those with higher level ones, but you still need to fulfill departmental requirements-- say 12 courses, or whatever. Therefore, as there are no distribution or core requirements, you are right, there is no reason for you to take the Eng Lit exam, unless you want to. |