General Placement and Credit Information
The most current guidelines regarding placement
and credit can be found in the summer_mailing
to incoming first-year students. Below on this web page is a summary
of some of the information found in that mailing:
In evaluating work that first-year students have
completed in mathematics before entering Swarthmore, the Department
draws a distinction between advanced placement and credit.
Placement allows students to skip material they have learned well
already by starting at Swarthmore in more advanced courses. Credit
confers placement as well but also is recorded on the student's
Swarthmore transcript and counts towards the 32 credit needed
for graduation.
First-year students seeking advanced placement
and/or credit for mathematics and statistics taken previously
(at a high school or a college) have several alternatives. They
can receive
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placement and credit through
sufficient scores on the Advanced Placement or International
Baccalaureate examinations, as described below, or
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placement without credit in mathematics
by taking the appropriate Swarthmore Placement Exam, as described
under Placement Exams below, or
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credit by taking the final examination
for the appropriate Swarthmore course. These exams must normally
be taken during the student's first semester at Swarthmore,
at the time when the final exam is given for the course. Students
who wish to take these exams must arrange to do so with First-Year
Student Math/Stat Placement Advisor.
For questions not answered in the summer_mailing,
please contact:
Credit for AP and IB Exams
Credit for previous work will be given to entering
students only during their first semester at Swarthmore. Students
who are eligible for credit for a course because of AP or IB exams
but who take the course anyway will not receive the exam based
credit.
The Statistics AP Exam
- Score: 4 or 5
One credit for Stat 011.
The Math AB Exam
- Score: 4
One credit for Math 015.
- Score: 5
One credit for Math 015, one-half credit for the first half
of Math 025, and placement into Math 026.
The Math BC Exam
This exam has two scores, one for the AB equivalent section and
one for the BC exam as a whole. The possible credit earned by the
AB score is as above. The possible credit earned by the score on
the BC exam as a whole is given below. The credit actually earned
is the better of the two possible credits.
- BC Score: 4
One credit for Math 015.
- BC Score: 5
Two credits for Math 015 and 025.
The Higher Level IB Exam
- Score: 5
One credit for Math 015.
- Score: 6 or 7
One credit for Math 015, one-half credit for the first half
of Math 025, and placement into Math 026.
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