Vanderbilt Required Courses Confusion

[tapotti]

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I understand that Vanderbilt does not allow AP credits to fulfill required courses, but are the credits allowed if you take a upper level course in the respective subject? For example, let's say I took AP Chemistry and got 5 credits from it, and then I took a 3 credit general chemistry class in college to total 8 credits. Would these 8 credits be allowed to fulfill the requirement, or would I still need 5 more? This is so confusing, please help. Thanks! 🙂

 

[QuantumMechanic]

I understand that Vanderbilt does not allow AP credits to fulfill required courses, but are the credits allowed if you take a upper level course in the respective subject? For example, let's say I took AP Chemistry and got 5 credits from it, and then I took a 3 credit general chemistry class in college to total 8 credits. Would these 8 credits be allowed to fulfill the requirement, or would I still need 5 more? This is so confusing, please help. Thanks! 🙂

email them, I had a similar question but they seemed to want you have X number of credit hours in each subject in any way.

 

[tapotti]

Alright I emailed them. I just think it's ridiculous that they would send the secondary and interview invite without looking at my transcript to see if I am even eligible. I'll let everyone know what they say.

 

[DoctorPardi]

Alright I emailed them. I just think it's ridiculous that they would send the secondary and interview invite without looking at my transcript to see if I am even eligible. I'll let everyone know what they say.

Well, the thing is a lot of people are not currently eligible to matriculate at a given university. For one, many have not graduated, and two, some schools require classes like biochem or calculus that some people may not take until this year.

So if you get an interview and are accepted you could probably take the gen chem requirements, in spring or summer.

 

[tapotti]

But I don't think I could take the classes in spring or summer according to this thread . However, another post in that thread says that I can use AP credit if it is supplemented by an upper level class. Man, this is so confusing. 😡

 

[DoctorPardi]

But I don't think I could take the classes in spring or summer according to this thread . However, another post in that thread says that I can use AP credit if it is supplemented by an upper level class. Man, this is so confusing. 😡

What do you mean, that you couldn't take these classes? You sign up for them and complete them and you're good. If Vanderbilt requires 8 hours of gen chem, and you've taken 3, take 5 hours of hours of gen chem. I guess that would be 2 labs and a class, so you could probably do that all in one semester even.

 

[DoctorPardi]

I see that supposedly some guy from vandy says you need it done by the fall semester. If that is the case, and you are competitive at Vandy then take those courses this semester.

First, I would send them an email and ask though. You can move your schedule around a bit if you really want to apply to Vandy.

 

[tapotti]

Ok, I got an email saying that I could use biochemistry and physical chemistry for the inorganic chemistry requirement. I am now asking again for the Physics requirement because I only have 3 credits of an upper level Physics class. This is a pain!