AP Credit and School Year Question

[ChymeofPassion]

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If I come in with 14 AP credits, does that contribute to my credit total that AAMC says I should use for differentiating between years, or can I just put them in the freshman year category and use credits I earned during college to classify my years.

 

[Campana]

They go in Freshman year.
Page 26 of the instructions:

 

[ChymeofPassion]

I know it goes in freshman year, but do they contribute to the total credit number for future classifications like sophomore, junior, or senior.

 

[Campana]

The way I read the instructions on Page 26 (have you already read through the instructions?), you can choose.

1. True first year in college: you list your AP credits as freshman year and then you may list your entire real freshman year as your freshman year - they will use those freshman courses (with grades) to determine your freshman GPA.

2. Academic status based on credit hours: you list your AP credits as freshman year and then you may decide to use the range of credits referenced (same page) to determine where to end the classes that count as your "freshman year" thus causing a shift in which classes apply to which year's GPA.

 

[ChymeofPassion]

The way I read the instructions on Page 26 (have you already read through the instructions?), you can choose.

1. True first year in college: you list your AP credits as freshman year and then you may list your entire real freshman year as your freshman year - they will use those freshman courses (with grades) to determine your freshman GPA.

2. Academic status based on credit hours: you list your AP credits as freshman year and then you may decide to use the range of credits referenced (same page) to determine where to end the classes that count as your "freshman year" thus causing a shift in which classes apply to which year's GPA.

Yes, I read the instructions. I will give a more concrete example to make my question more clear. I have 14 AP credits. Junior year is classified as having 66 through 95 semester hours according to AAMC. Are those numbers (66-95) including the 14 AP credit hours, or only credits earned during college.

 

[Campana]

I think we're making this more complicated than it was intended to be. 😉

And, I'm only giving you my interpretations; there is a help line / support email you can use to directly ask AMCAS, as I am certain you are not the first to have this question:

 

[ChymeofPassion]

I think we're making this more complicated than it was intended to be. 😉

And, I'm only giving you my interpretations; there is a help line / support email you can use to directly ask AMCAS, as I am certain you are not the first to have this question:

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Oh definitely

 

[907914]

I have 35 AP credits and 24 military credits that all get assigned to freshmen year by default. Plus my first year real academic year was 40 credits (2 20 hours semesters).

99 credit freshmen year. Yeet.

 

[ChymeofPassion]

I have 35 AP credits and 24 military credits that all get assigned to freshmen year by default. Plus my first year real academic year was 40 credits (2 20 hours semesters).

99 credit freshmen year. Yeet.

So for your sophomore and junior year classifications, how are you going to account for your ap and military credits? Or are you just gonna do it by traditional semester style (every 2 semesters, new year)

 

[907914]

So for your sophomore and junior year classifications, how are you going to account for your ap and military credits? Or are you just gonna do it by traditional semester style (every 2 semesters, new year)

For Junior and senior year, yah Summer through spring as one academic year.

My sophomore year will be by credits (around 30 credits that were taken a year apart between two universities, I have had an odd path).