Requirements: Advanced Placement Program

The Advanced Placement (AP) program is a cooperative educational endeavor between secondary schools and universities. AP examinations aim to give high school students opportunities to demonstrate that they have taken college-level courses. The program is administered by the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB), which contracts with the Educational Testing Services (ETS) to conduct the tests. AP examinations are administered in eighteen subject areas and are graded on a scale of one (low) to five (high).
  At CMC, credit and/or placement of AP/IB examinations is evaluated on a subject-by-subject basis by the appropriate departments and is subject to final approval by the faculty. In some subjects, students will receive credit for AP scores of 4 or 5, and IB (higher level exams only) scores of 6 or 7, in other subjects they may receive placement. The maximum amount of credit students may receive for AP or IB examinations is the equivalent of four CMC courses. Students cannot receive credit for more than one course or examination covering the same subject matter and students lose credit for an AP course if they repeat the same or a lower-level course. CMC does not grant credit for exams in subjects not offered at the College.

If CMC grants credit, students receive an elective course credit towards graduation. In these cases students may or may not also receive a waiver of a general education or major requirement. If CMC grants placement, students are placed in a a higher level course, and may or may not receive credit for a lower level course. If the placement involves a general education requirement or major requirement, the higher level course may be used as a substitute for the lower course and thus meet the requirement; it does not involve a waiver of a requirement. Finally, if CMC grants a waiver, students do not have to complete a required course; however, they do not receive credit for the waived course.

Official copies of AP/IB transcripts or reports must be received by the CMC registrar no later than the first semester of the junior year to be considered for credit or waiver.

Please note that the receiving of credit in a subject area does not automatically mean that general education or major requirements in the same area have been completed. Several departments grant elective college credit to be counted towards the elective courses required for graduation. Students entering as freshmen may not complete more than four general education requirements through transfer credit, including study abroad, summer school, and advanced placement or international baccalaureate programs.

CMC awards up to 4 course units for AP scores of 4 or 5 in the following areas:

Field	Exams/Scores	Notes
Computer Science	Any exam with score of 4 or 5	Placement in CSCI062  CM; no AP credit awarded
Economics	Microeconomics and Macroeconomics with a combined score at least 9	No AP credit awarded, but students may place directly into ECON101  CM or ECON102  CM
English	Literature (any exam) with score of 5	No AP credit awarded, but students may request permission to satisfy their FWS 010  CM general education requirement with any CMC Lit course numbered 60 or above.
History	Any exam with score of 4 or 5	One unit of elective AP credit for any single exam (no additional credit for multiple exams). Students may elect any CMC history course to satisfy the general education requirement.
Language	French (any exam) with score of 4 or 5	AP Credit for FREN033  CM, placement in FREN044  CM
	Spanish (any exam) with score of 4 or 5	AP Credit for SPAN033  CM, placement in SPAN044  CM
	German (any exam) with score of 4 or 5	AP Credit for GERM033  SC, placement in GERM044  SC
	Latin (any exam) with score of 4 or 5	AP Credit for Classics 100, placement in Classics 110
Math	Calculus AB with score of 4 or 5	Placement into MATH031  CM; no AP credit awarded
	Calculus BC with score of 4 or 5	Placement into MATH032  CM; no AP credit awarded
Psychology	Psychology with score of 5	AP credit equivalent to PSYC030  CM
Science	Chemistry or Physics with score of 4 or 5	One unit of elective AP credit for each subject (no additional credit for multiple exams in one subject)
Statistics	Statistics with score of 4 or 5	No AP credit awarded, but students may waive the statistics prerequisite for ECON125  CM

International Baccalaureate Program: CMC treats Higher Level exam scores of 6 and 7 of in the same way as AP scores of 4 or 5. Students do not receive credit for the same subject matters in both AP and IB.