<p>I have a rather complicated question concerning credits.</p>
<p>I will be taking the Japanese placement exam and will most likely test into at least 301 (at least, so says my high school Japanese teacher who has thick ties with Chicago Japanese professors). Anyway, I also have quite a bit of knowledge in German and could probably test out of the first year of German. The maximum number of credits one can contain by placement tests (in electives, at least) is six, however, so if I tested out of 2 years of Japanese and 1 year of German, I’d only get six credits. What’s worrying me is that if you’re a math major, at most grad schools it’s required that you know to a reasonable extent either German, French, or Russian, but in most cases you are pre-qualified if you have already taken a year of one of these languages as an undergrad. So my main question, I guess, is that if I test out of 2 years of language and only receive 6 credits, will there still be some kind of way to let the German show up on my transcript so I won’t have to take an extra German course? Otherwise, I don’t think it’s worth it to take the German placement exam.</p>