Need some help deciphering Duke's AP Credit policy for English

mecsquared
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:00:44 +0000

https://advising.duke.edu/sites/advising.duke.edu/files/placementguidelines_0.pdf - see page 10 specifically for stats.

In the past, there used to be a placement exam in order to register for Stat 101 and 102, but if you got a 5 on the Stats AP, you didn’t have to take the test. The placement exam, I heard, was really basic and was more to prevent overqualified students from taking Stat 30 for an easy grade rather than keep people out of 101/102. According to the PDF above, it seems like that’s no longer the case and the AP test won’t really benefit you.

The 1 caveat I would put here is if you are pre-med, it is possible for medical schools that require statistics to accept that AP credit later on in the road, but it’s hard to think that far. As far as pre-med reqs go, stats is not a hard pill to swallow at all, so I wouldn’t worry too much about it.