Max units coming in as freshman

desilu77
Fri, 15 May 2009 05:46:57 +0000

AP credits really don’t mean s**t though at UCLA, with the exception of the basic core classes (Writing I, American Institutions, Basic Foreign Language, and Quantitative Reasoning, basically).

No AP credit will count towards your General Ed, and very, very few departments will accept AP credit for your required major courses. You’ll just have an arsenal of elective credit that will only help you a bit in the long-run, but its also possible that your major department will up the credits you need to major because of all your incoming elective credit.

sapphire_ocean is right, though, you will technically have “sophomore” standing, although I’m not sure if UCLA will actually recognize it as that, and it’s likely you can take upper division courses sooner (as long as a prereq is not required).

SIMPLY PUT, AP credits will only pragmatically mean two things: getting out of core (NOT general ed) classes and not having to take placement exams (for example, I believe if you got a high enough score on AP Calculus, you can place right into Math 31A (Derivative Calculus) without a placement test).

Sorry for such a long post, haha. I was pretty disappointed when I found out that I wouldn’t be getting really anything from my AP credit.