Where AP english can fulfill requirements

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<p>This goes to my son’s course selection for Senior year of high school, and in particular the utility of the AP English course.</p>

<p>I’ve looked up requirements at several liberal arts/ Arts & Sciences colleges, the ones I checked will give credit for certain scores on the AP English exam, but only as a “free elective”; one cannot use it towards fulfilling any of the college’s required distribution requirements, such as a writing requirement, where freshman seminars or writing courses are required.</p>

<p>What “good” (eg top 100, or whatever you call good) colleges are out there where this is not the case, and in fact a satisfactory AP english score can be applied towards fulfilling such a requirement, if you choose to use it that way, and therefore the AP course can have utility beyond merely a free elective?</p>

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<p>Syracuse: (all schools) AP English Lang and Comp grade of 4 substitutes for both writing requirements. (6 credits)</p>

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<p>Is your son a prospective engineering student? At Vanderbilt, AP Lang can fulfill the writing requirement for engineering/computer science students, but I don’t believe that is true in Arts and Science.</p>

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<p>Quite a few colleges from ~20 on down offer credit and/or fullfillment of the writing course. Even some of the colleges at Cornell provide credit.</p>

<p>Just google college name and AP credit.</p>

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<p>My son used his AP English credits to fulfill some distribution requirements at American University.</p>

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<p>sometimes it depends on what the student’s major is</p>

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<p>"Is your son a prospective engineering student? "</p>

<p>No, Arts & Sciences most likely.</p>

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<p>Bama gives a student credit for both Freshman Comp classes if you get a 4 on AP English Comp **or **AP Lit. Very nice…and you get 6 credits. </p>

<p>If you only get a 3, then they give you credit for one Fresh Comp class.</p>

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<p>^^I would guess that practically every public gives full credit, even for 3+.</p>

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<p>^^^ No, not true… For instance…</p>

<p>UVirginia…</p>

<p>English (Language)… 5 …3 credits earned for ENWR 1510
English (Literature)… 4 or 5…3 credits earned for ENLT 2000T</p>

<p>Looks like UVirginia will only let you out of one writing class, and you need a 5.</p>

<p>I think the UC’s require a 4 to cover the English Comp I writing req’t. </p>

<p>[AP</a> Credit Policy Info - Advanced Placement Program - AP Policy Search](<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board)</p>

<p>This link can be used to find different schools’ AP policies</p>

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<p>One of the schools I looked at was SUNY Binghamton. They will give credit for the class as a free elective, but will not acccept it to fulfill any portion of their writing distribution requirement. It was after seeing several of these that I decided to post.</p>

<p>My thinking is, if it really would just likely to be used for a free elective, and at that only if he got a 5, which is what I saw at some schools and which he won’t get, then it really is not as useful at all, in that respect, as say, AP bio which from what I’ve seen may fulfill part of a science distribution requirement. Though I’m sure that varies too. But thats another thread.</p>

<p>Sign up time for next year is approaching, and he is disinclinded to take it. I just wanted to see whether he might be missing something, in terms of its utility, before he finally dismisses it. But from what I’m seeing, maybe from this angle he’s not missing much. Now if it helps him develop skills that would help with those college courses he can’t get out of, that is significant too. Or if it’s just intrinsically more interesting than other courses he can take instead. But it isn’t, and it’s hard, and he’s lazy.</p>

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<p>mom2collegekids thanks for that link.
but it still takes a while to look all this stuff up, so if people know of some already that would still help.</p>

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<p>Oh sure…I just though in case there is a particular school that you wanted to know about…</p>

<p>Each school can be different. yes, it does help if people post what they know. :)</p>

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<p>Isn’t it a wiser use of time to check the schools in which you’re interested than to get >100 (because there will be some disagreement on what you mean by the top 100 schools) random posts?</p>

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<p>It actually takes a long time to look up particular schools, I found, and moreover he doesn’t have a list yet. The problem is that, though he does not yet have a college list, he has to choose his courses for next year now.</p>

<p>So I thought this was a quicker way to find out probabilistically how likely it is that he will be able to use the AP credits, once he actually does have a list, and then a selection. Based on whether using this AP to fulfill requirements appears to be quite commonplace, based on the responses, not common at all, or someplace in between.</p>

<p>Based on my several research efforts I concluded it would take a lot less time to read other people’s posts on the subject than to individually research this for a bunch of schools, which may or may not ultimately wind up on his list. Of course I could be wrong. But there’s not much time to do research anyway, I know his science course selection is due tomorrow, the others are surely following imminently.</p>

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<p>At Pitt, if a student scores a 5 on the AP Comp (usually junior year), they get English credit (I think that it was 6 credits). The 5 for the senior year AP (Lit) will earn the same English credit, but it isn’t double credit. Therefore, if DD had to do it over again, she would pass on the senior year AP English because it was very stressful and did not get any additional credit. And knowing that, her school still required her to take (and us to pay for) the test.</p>