AP Credits at Yale

Kdog044
Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:50:35 +0000

bookmobile:

If you did not take a language all the way through AP in high school, but through level 4 or 5, what is your likely outcome on the placement test? For a good student who got A’s through, say, Span. 5; is it possible for him to place out of Spanish entirely, or will he be likely to have to take a course or two?

I would say it’s unlikely to be able to test out with that background. My son took three years of Spanish and only placed in the intro level but YMMV. Also, you can’t place out of a language entirely, even with a 5 on the AP exam. You have to take at least one class in that language (L5) or you can opt to take a different language through L2.