How do grad schools look at courses skipped with AP/CLEP credits?

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I’m starting undergrad as a CS major at a decent northeastern state school next month, and have 20 AP/CLEP credits:

-AP Calculus AB: Calculus I
-AP Physics C Mechanics: calculus-based physics I (the course at the school is the same material except it also has waves)
-CLEP College Composition: both freshman writing courses
-CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature: 2 generic English semester credits

The class I’m really wondering if they’d care is the physics one, because that’s really not trivial stuff.

Also, honors college students are required to take a seminar class instead of the normal first freshman writing one, and those with AP/CLEP credit get it counted as humanities credit instead. And the Lit CLEP fulfills the rest of the humanities credits needed to graduate, so I wouldn’t ever have to take a college humanities class; I’m high-fiving myself, but what would graduate schools think?

The only difference in my schedule this semester is that I’m taking calculus II instead of I, though next semester I was planning on taking calculus III and calculus-based physics II in place of calculus II and the second freshman writing class.

I haven’t actually started yet, so I could just tell them to discard my credits and retake calc I instead of taking II this semester, take the second freshman writing course next semester, and so on.

P.S.: I don’t actually intend on going to graduate school at the moment, but am just curious.

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grad schools will look at gpa, letters of rec, statement of purpose, gre scores, research/writing/etc, if you’re a good fit. you’re a freshman so nothing that you’re doing particularly matters right now.

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Grad schools care about senior-level classes you missed, not freshman-level classes that you skipped by examination.

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cosmicfish yeah but as of now, I’m not planning on taking a single humanities class. I know I’m majoring in STEM, but I’m still pretty much IRL hacking my way out of a gen ed requirement.

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@ScreenName1999 - Welcome to the forum! That is totally irrelevant. If you are applying to a graduate program in, for example, physics. Then all that matters is your upper division physics courses. Your general education courses are irrelevant unless you fail them and then you have GPA problems. Of course, even scientists and engineers need to be able to write decently but it is not of primary importance. The other aspects of your application as mentioned in the previous posts are more important.

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They don’t care.