Am I allowed to spread out an engineering degree over 5 years?

maryversity
Sun, 16 Mar 2014 15:17:27 +0000

Cut out some AP credits? What do you mean by that? If you come in with AP credits that are not applicable towards your major, that’s fine.

There are no exceptions made for courses they require for benchmarks. However, the advantage of having those extra AP credits (while they don’t count toward your benchmark review) is that AFTER your first semester, you will be able to register for courses sooner than your peers that don’t have as many credits.

The reason I say AFTER the first semester is that signing up for your first semester is done at orientation, and that’s the only level playing field, per se, among your peers. So, the sooner you do orientation, the better for signing up for classes for your first semester (although there is no need to panic about being at the very first orientation since they do hold some seats in reserve for the main core classes and open a few of those seats at each orientation to give everyone a fair shot). Once you have matriculated, your date to meet with your adviser and get cleared to sign up for the spring semester is based on pecking order of credits on record. It doesn’t matter if those credits apply to your major or not.