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The relevant pages on the Dartmouth College website http://www.dartmouth.edu/~upperde/firstyear-students/credit_and_placement.html http://www.dartmouth.edu/~up

The relevant pages on the Dartmouth College website http://www.dartmouth.edu/~upperde/firstyear-students/credit_and_placement.html http://www.dartmouth.edu/~upperde/firstyear-students/credit_... http://www.dartmouth.edu/admissions/apply/thinking/credit.html http://www.dartmouth.edu/admissions/apply/thinking/credit.ht... http://www.dartmouth.edu/~upperde/firstyear-students/advanced_placement_2016.pdf http://www.dartmouth.edu/~upperde/firstyear-students/advance... don't appear to be updated to match what is reported in the AP article. What's really news here is that Dartmouth ever granted credit for AP courses--that is unusual in the Ivy League, of which Dartmouth is one of eight members. On the other hand, there are hundreds upon hundreds of other colleges all around the country that continue to offer AP credit for AP scores on specified tests of a specified level, so each high school student who decides whether or not to take an AP test is deciding to do so based on what colleges the student is considering attending. This is no big deal. Each college decides its own policy. The policy of Harvard http://apo.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k73580&pageid=icb.page388448 http://apo.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k73580&pag... http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/transfer/transfer_credit.html http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/transfer/tra... will continue to be different from the policy of (for example) Rutgers, http://soe.rutgers.edu/oaa/academic-credit http://soe.rutgers.edu/oaa/academic-credit http://sebs.rutgers.edu/new/aptests.asp http://sebs.rutgers.edu/new/aptests.asp http://sasundergrad.rutgers.edu/academics/academic-credit/advanced-placement http://sasundergrad.rutgers.edu/academics/academic-credit/ad... and students will continue to compare the varied college policies on AP credit http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/exgrd_get.html http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/exgrd_get.htm... http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/apcreditpolicy/index.jsp http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/apcreditpolicy/index.j... among a lot of other trade-offs the students consider when deciding where to attend college, including whether or not they are admitted to the college in the first place.

andrewchoi 14y ago
This was my first reaction as well, Princeton also does not offer credit for AP classes: http://www.princeton.edu/pub/ap/ http://www.princeton.edu/pub/ap/
brianchu 14y ago
On the contrary, it is actually very common for Ivy League schools to offer AP credit, or at the least allow you to use AP credit to fulfill a requirement / prerequisite. Princeton, Brown, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania all offer AP credit or allow fulfilling prerequisites. Outside of the Ivy League, Stanford offers AP credit. MIT offers AP credit for 2 classes and elective credit for humanities AP classes. None of these schools, however, will offer AP credit for all AP classes, since there is a lot of variability in the rigor of each AP class. Three of the AP classes that I've observed tend to be accepted for credit are BC Calculus, Physics C, and Economics. Physics C (for Mechanics and Electricity) was the most challenging AP test I ever took.

andrewchoi 14y ago

This was my first reaction as well, Princeton also does not offer credit for AP classes: http://www.princeton.edu/pub/ap/ http://www.princeton.edu/pub/ap/

brianchu 14y ago

On the contrary, it is actually very common for Ivy League schools to offer AP credit, or at the least allow you to use AP credit to fulfill a requirement / prerequisite. Princeton, Brown, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania all offer AP credit or allow fulfilling prerequisites. Outside of the Ivy League, Stanford offers AP credit. MIT offers AP credit for 2 classes and elective credit for humanities AP classes. None of these schools, however, will offer AP credit for all AP classes, since there is a lot of variability in the rigor of each AP class. Three of the AP classes that I've observed tend to be accepted for credit are BC Calculus, Physics C, and Economics. Physics C (for Mechanics and Electricity) was the most challenging AP test I ever took.