Revelle College

astrina
Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:15:32 +0000

Congrats on getting 5s on each exam, but the AP policy isn’t designed to get you out of everything. In comparing several AP classes and their UCSD-level equivalents, I’ve noticed that the UCSD version covers more stuff more extensively than the high school one. The 3 humanities requirement isn’t nearly as bad as the 6-quarter MMW sequence that ERC students have no choice but to complete in full.

It doesn’t matter what major you are, those AP conversions apply to everyone. If, however, your major requires something like the physics 4 series and your AP scores only exempt you from physics 2 classes, then you’re still required to take them at UCSD.

(And some schools are super-picky about AP class conversions, have you seen this? [MIT Transfer Students: Advanced Placement (AP) & International Exam Credit](http://web.mit.edu/firstyear/transfer/credit/ap.html))