Question about AP English credit

Longhaul
Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:20:09 +0000

@wcm – Accepted students have access to Degree Works. It was well worth our money to have AP scores and DE transcript sent in during senior year HS for all tests taken thru 11th grade (then subsequently in summer for the 12th grade scores). DS had declared a major upon acceptance. Courses over the general ed requirements for his major appeared on DegreeWorks as “ELECTIVE” courses before he even attended a Bama Bound session.

Only caveat – DW handles some items differently than they may actually be handled. Example: APUSH is listed as satisfying “DEPTH STUDY” requirement (which is the 6 credits of same topic). In practice, it may also be used for the History/Social Behavior (HI/SB) requirement, but DW will list other courses in HI/SB instead of defaulting to permitting using 1 course to satisfy multiple requirements.

@Lisa6191 DS is doing both STEM MBA and CBH. Her son went in with many credits. She may be a good resource.

My son is doing STEM MBA. The STEM MBA and CBH will satisfy Honors College Elective credits.
STEM MBA is not very time consuming. They truly “get” theses kids are bogged down with labs and practice sets. STEM MBA offers late afternoon and evening time slots once a week for class.

The UH (Honors Foundation) courses have 1 credit classes (UH 120) that look like fun and are not time consuming. The UH 155 (Freshmen Seminars) were paced well too and appeared tailor made for students getting used to managing time in college. DS has executive functioning and major time management issues, takes 10 x as long to write a paper as a normal student, and he did fine with the UH 155. I did “force” DS to limit his first semester schedule to 15.5 credits (initially he signed up for 18.5).