If courses in Courses@Brown list AP or IB scores as prerequisites (e.g. AP Chemistry Score of 4), reporting official scores allows you to enroll in these courses. If instead they list a specific Brown course (e.g. CHEM 0100), you will need to ensure that you accept the approved equivalent Brown course notation, following the emailed guidelines provided when you entered Brown. 

Students wishing to place into a higher level course using an exam score that is not listed on the equivalency charts should consult with the respective course instructor.

Exam results can appear in two ways on your records. Scores alone are used internally and do not show up on your transcripts. They are also hardcoded to meet course prerequisites, and may be used in ASK for your declaration. If a department has approved a Brown course equivalency to a specific exam score (e.g. AP Calculus AB Score of 4 = MATH 0090), students can accept a notation for that Brown course. The Brown course equivalent does then appear on a student transcript. 

Accepting course placement notations is permanent, and notations prevent students from enrolling in the corresponding class. To accept notations, follow the Brown Course Placement and Test Scores guidelines provided to you when entering Brown. In short, students who report AP and IB scores have until the end of the registration period of their first semester at Brown to accept or decline the notation for the Brown course equivalency. If students report official qualifying scores and take no further action, the system will automatically accept the notation. This action cannot be reversed. Students who report scores and decline the corresponding notation before the deadline, may accept the notation later in their undergraduate career.

At Brown, course credit refers to earning a credit value that advances you closer to the 30 Brown course credit requirement. Most Brown courses award 1 Brown course credit (1.0cc).

AP scores do not award course credit. Qualifying international exam scores may grant course credit only for students with a credit recovery need, who are short on course credit to graduate. If you have such a need, please write to degreecompletiondeans@brown.edu for more information.

Students pursuing an ABET-accredited engineering concentration may need to accept course credit for an international exam score to meet ABET requirements.

Under certain conditions, students may petition to advance their standing using qualifying exam scores to accelerate their graduation timeline by one semester. Students who advance their semester of standing must complete all degree requirements in the condensed time frame. Detailed information about the advanced standing petition process can be found here.

Students may use exam results to satisfy concentration requirements. Reporting exam results to Brown alone may not satisfy those requirements. For some concentrations the scores alone suffice (e.g. AP Calculus BC Score of 5). For others, students must accept the notation for the corresponding Brown course equivalent for the exam result (e.g. MATH 0100). For the latter, ensure you accept the course notation following the guidelines provided to incoming students titled Brown Course Placement and Test Scores.

The concentration faculty determine what is accepted. Consult the respective concentration requirements or a concentration advisor to confirm whether exam scores and/or Brown course equivalency notations for those scores will be accepted for concentration requirements.

In some cases students must take an alternative course. For example, if students earn credit for ECON 0110 through exam scores, the concentration in Economics notes that students must then take an additional 1000-level ECON course in lieu to meet the concentration requirement. On the other hand, the concentration in Biology accepts qualifying AP and IB results to meet their BIOL 0200 requirement without the need to take additional coursework.