AP Credits - Do you have to use them?

drmambo
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:36:37 +0000

To answer your question (“if you automatically get the credit…will [they] erase your AP credit [if you retake the course]”), it can either go two ways:

1) you’ll just get e-dropped from the course (most likely without notice), and a continuation of your attendance will just be for your own edification (it won’t even be on your transcript).

2) You’ll get a grade for the course (i.e. it’ll count toward you GPA), you just won’t get credit for the course.

Perhaps a moot post; however, I wanted to make your potential options more clear. I’d definitely recommend calling them as soon as possible (seeing as things are about to slow-down around here). What I did, back when I was in your position, was call them from my school’s college center (just some friendly suburban chicagoan advice). I had a good relationship with the women there, so I’d just be like, “hey, I’ve gotta make a long distance call…” (not wait for a yes or no on their part), push 8 to call out, and then call mcgill.

If you’ve got any free periods, just go during then (lunch counts as a free for you, right?).

Also, email always works here (in fact they encourage email over telephonic communication). If you’ve accepted McGill’s offer, then you already have a firstname.lastname@mail.mcgill.ca account. I feel like they’re more responsive to mail from those accounts, so your best bet is communication through your mail.mcgill.ca account.

Sorry if this wasn’t too informative. You question on a whole is pretty good (in the respect that its answer is near impossible to find w/o talking to an employee).