**What to Consider When Using Advanced Placement* Credit at Cornell**

* Advanced Placement refers to AP, IB, GCE A-Level, French Baccalaureate and Cambridge Pre-U Credit

You do not need to formally accept your advanced placement credit

Choosing to use credit will depend, in part, on whether your credit is for a technical course that will be a prerequisite for other courses in your academic program.

If it is not a technical prerequisite, there is typically no reason not to use it.

If it is a technical prerequisite, or if there is any question about whether you have mastered the material completely, be cautious; be certain that you are really prepared to take the next course in the sequence or another course for which it is a pre-requisite. Moving ahead in the curriculum too quickly can have detrimental impacts on your ability to affiliate with a major and graduate on time.

Students interested in health professions and considering a pre-health track may have additional information to consider when determining whether to use AP Credit. Please connect with the Engineering Pre-Health Advisor if you have questions.

If in doubt, you may consider not using the credit and taking the course at Cornell or strongly consider taking a Cornell Advanced Standing Exam (CASE) to confirm your mastery.

If you would like to use advanced placement credit, you must send it to Cornell University!

If you submitted official AP scores via College Board using the Cornell CEEB Code 2098 (including using free score send), you have done what you need, and these scores will be posted to your record later this summer. If you have only self-reported your scores, or if they were included on your high school transcript, you must send them to Cornell University via College Board.