3A-levels=5AP's?

[dhaaaa]

<p>Hi I just looked on a decision thread of Dartmouth that 3 A-levels would be equal to 5AP’s in US, is it correct.</p>

[b_r_um]

<p>It’s up to each university to decide how much credit to award to A-levels or AP exams. Bryn Mawr awards one year’s worth of credits for 3 A-levels in liberal arts subjects, which would correspond to 6-8 AP exams (some AP exams receive more credit than others). At Haverford one A-level = one AP exam credit-wise. There’s no uniform standard.</p>

[b_r_um]

<p>Here’s Dartmouth’s policy on A-level credit:</p>

<p>[British</a> A-Level](<a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/~frstyear/work/policies/alevel.html]British”>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~frstyear/work/policies/alevel.html)</p>

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One departmental unspecified credit will be granted for each course in which a grade of A has been earned.</p>

<p>Students with an A grade may appeal for additional unspecified credit or specific course credit (which replaces the unspecified credit) from the academic department directly. For courses in which a grade of B has been earned, credit may be granted at the discretion of the department.

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<p>[Department</a> Guidelines for British A-level Work](<a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/~frstyear/work/policies/A-Level%20Chart%202012]Department”>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~frstyear/work/policies/A-Level%20Chart%202012)</p>

[bruno123]

<p>The standard conditional offer for admission of ** domestic applicants ** into most universities in England is 3 A-Levels (even though the top UK students nowadays tend to have 4 or 5). On the other hand, LSE’s [standard admission offer](<a href=“http://www2.lse.ac.uk/study/informationForInternationalStudents/countryRegion/northAmerica/usa.aspx”>http://www2.lse.ac.uk/study/informationForInternationalStudents/countryRegion/northAmerica/usa.aspx&lt;/a&gt;) for ** US applicants ** requires at least 5 ** two-semester ** AP courses with a high score (4 or 5) in the respective college board exams. That would support the equivalence you mentioned. However, other UK schools like Imperial College admit US applicants based on [url=&lt;a href=“Imperial College London”&gt;http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/portal/page/portallive/3229ADA2467B6544E0440003BADBDCAF&lt;/a&gt;] 3 AP courses only <a href=“e.g.,%20in%20the%20case%20of%20engineering,%20Calculus%20BC%20+%20Physics%20C%20and%20another%20science”>/url</a>. In other words, different universities seem to use different criteria on how many AP’s would be equivalent to one full A-Level.</p>