Question about getting credit.

[molliebatmit]

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To be quite frank, at a school like MIT I’d rather take placement exams than be given transfer credit. In your first semester, if you find yourself in a course that is too difficult, you can become discouraged. Furthermore, if you drop that course but can’t add the correct course, you’ll find yourself behind. It makes more sense to start in the right course from the outset.

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<p>But that is, of course, the purpose of the transfer credit examiner – to look at the syllabus of the class you’re trying to transfer, and see if your grounding in the subject is roughly equivalent to what you would have received in the subject at MIT. If they don’t think your background is good enough, they won’t award you the credit.</p>