120 units, 3 years?

rider730
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:02:41 +0000

Once you have 30 units of credit or more, you are a sophmore as far as Telebears appointments and standing for restricted classes. Once you pass 60 credits, you are a junior. Once past 90, you become a senior.

College of Letters and Sciences has a list of the credits granted for the various AP tests. In general, it appears that AP tests that involve year long HS classes earn 5.3 units and those that are only a semester class earn 2.7 units.

AP tests give you class standing (soph, etc) including the registration timing benefits, they can satisfy pre-reqs for classes (but the equivalency of an AP test as a pre-req for a particular class is determined by that department), and they count towards your total units needed for graduation. They can satisfy requirements for quantitative reasoning, foreign language and the R&C requirements, but not the L&S breadth obligation.

Although the points are added into your total for class standing and graduation, they do not limit you as far as the school maximum units that can be taken, nor do they force you to declare a major early - for these two purposes, only units taken in a college class will count.

L&S has a great brochure, Earning Your Degree, that covers many policies and the AP credit issues - http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/fp/EYD.pdf

If you are in another college, look for their corresponding rules for AP test credit.