The College Board provides course descriptions and professional consultants to help schools establish college-level courses. The program administers and grades the examinations and sends the results to the students' prospective colleges. Successful completion of these examinations, which are administered in the student' s high school, entitles the student to be considered for advanced placement, granted college credit, or both, depending upon the area and the examination scores. Advanced placement without credit does not reduce the total units to be earned for the bachelor's degree, but allows the student to study at a higher level than otherwise possible. Advanced placement with credit reduces the units to be completed for a degree.
Final decision regarding credit or placement is the prerogative of the department concerned.
No grades are recorded for courses credited through the Advanced Placement program. University policy encourages prospective students to avail themselves of Advanced Placement programs, because successful achievement will substantially increase flexibility in future course selection. A combination of AP composition credit and credit for English 109H with a grade of C or better satisfies the University freshman-composition requirement. A combination of AP composition credit and credit for English 109H with a grade of C or better satisfies the University freshman-composition requirement. If a student earns a grade of 5 in both the Spanish language exam and the Spanish literature exam, credit will be given for SPAN 201 and 202, 301a and 301b, and for 6 units of upper division literature credit for a total of 20 units.