How AP/IB Credits at Princeton works?

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<p>From what I understand, AP/IB credits are used only to A) take higher level courses earlier, B) satisfy introductory lab requirements, and C) get advanced standing status.</p>

<p>However, I already fulfilled the requirements to graduate in 3 years, so there is no need for me to take any this year (12th grade) for advanced standing purposes. I’m planning on doing B.S.E. in ORFE, ELE, or Compsci and I was wondering which AP tests you guys recommend I cancel. The certificates I’m interested in are: Engineering & Management Systems, Engineering Physics, Finance, Neuroscience, and Applied & Computational Mathematics. It would be a great help if Princeton students who are familiar with some of these majors/certificates could let me know :)</p>

<p>This is my main question: will taking any of the following tests give me useful benefits, if so, which ones and how will it benefit me? I put specific questions/remarks that I am concerned about in parenthesis.</p>

<p>AP Biology (Will this help me skip over the MOL 214/215 requirement for the neuroscience concentration? Is this the only benefit?)
AP English Literature
AP Statistics (Does this fulfill the ECO 202 prerequisite for higher ECO classes? On Princeton’s AP table website [Princeton</a> - About Advanced Placement and Advanced Standing](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/ap/table.htm#note]Princeton”>http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/ap/table.htm#note), it says this doesn’t give any AP units, so I was wondering why they had it on there)</p>

<p>Also, does Princeton grant credit for the IB Diploma?</p>

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<p>the AP english lit one will do you no good- you have to take a freshman writing seminar no matter what your score is. I’m not sure about the neuro-- if you’re a bio major you need to take 215 anyway, but it places you out of EEB211, so that would be useful. Stats is only good if you want to be a woody woo major, in which case I think that it places you out of the statistics requirement. For ORFE or CS, you;d need to take just as many math or stats classes whether you had the class or not. </p>

<p>If you want all of those certificates, or even any of them other than the management systems and applied and computational mathematics, you’re going to likely need all four years at princeton.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the quick response :slight_smile: So basically, unless I am a woodrow wilson major, even if I get a 5 on AP stats, I’d still have to take ECO 202 or an equivalent stats class if I wanted to say…major in ELE w/ finance cert by taking ECO 362, which has ECO 202 or equivalent as a prereq. Is that correct?</p>

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<p>No, if you’re orfe you have to take ORF 245, which is the “equivalent” of ECO202. I think you need several ORFE classes for the finance certificate anyway…</p>

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<p>How does transfer credit work? I’ll have about 47-ish college credits by the time I graduate, and I’d really like to use at least some of them.</p>