Gov Scott's New Bill

Gator88NE
Mon, 06 May 2013 11:52:55 +0000

I wouldn’t worry about it. Below is the text from the bill (and if you ever have problems falling to sleep, I highly recommend reading all 144 pages of that bill…you’ll not get by page 7…I know I didn’t.)

“In order to provide a jointly shared educational experience, a university that is designated a preeminent state research university may require its incoming first-time-in-college students to take a 9-to-12-credit set of unique courses specifically determined by the university and published on the university’s website. The university may stipulate that credit for such courses may not be earned through any acceleration mechanism pursuant to s. 1007.27 or s. 1007.271 3604 or any other transfer credit.”

The key here is “unique courses”, as these would be new courses developed by the university and not your standard AP classes. I think this reflects first year students arriving with 45+ credits (and bypassing much of the first two year curriculum).

None of this would impact transfer students and it’s very different from the recent trend at some schools (like at Dartmouth) of not accepting any AP credits.