AP Credit Will No Longer Be Accepted At Dartmouth

Re:AP Credit Will No Longer Be Accepted At Dartmouth by maratd on Thursday January 17, 2013 @06:14PM (#5075892)

In defense of AP tests, they're meant to replace college level courses ... not university level courses. They're equivalent to what you'd encounter at a local community college, not what you'd encounter at the top 100 research universities in the country.

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Re:AP Credit Will No Longer Be Accepted At Dartmouth by shrughes on Thursday January 17, 2013 @06:16PM (#5075901)

That's not what "college" means in the United States. "College" is a synonym with "University." There is sometimes some word usage where the connotations can be different, but rarely, and in particular, there's no difference in the notion of "university level courses" and "college level courses."

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Re:AP Credit Will No Longer Be Accepted At Dartmouth by leephillips on Thursday January 17, 2013 @10:46PM (#5076976)

This is doubly confusing in the case of Dartmouth College, which is actually a university (I got my physics Ph.D. there - and they have a medical school, a prominent MBA school, etc.) but is called a "College" for interesting historical reasons involving Daniel Webster.

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Re:AP Credit Will No Longer Be Accepted At Dartmouth by Steko on Thursday January 17, 2013 @06:30PM (#5075989)

Generally the difference is that a college will offer undergraduate programs and universities offer both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

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