Departmental Exams

Advanced Placement in Mathematics

If you have taken a high school calculus course and achieved an SAT I mathematics score of 650 or higher, you may take the School of Mathematics’ Advanced Placement Exam in calculus during freshman orientation. This exam is an alternative to College Board Advanced Placement Exams. If you pass the exam, you will receive credit for MATH 1501. You may also be approved for subsequent course exams.




Modern Foreign Language Credit

You may receive humanities credit for courses numbered 2001-2002 in a language if you

  1. submit higher level scores of 5 or higher from a certified high school International Baccalaureate program, or
  2. submit higher level scores of 4 or 5 from Advanced Placement exam in one of the languages taught at Georgia Tech.

To have this elective credit entered on your records, please submit your IB or AP scores to the Registrar’s office. This credit can apply toward the six-hour humanities/fine arts graduation requirement; no grade is attached to it. You will not get credit for high school language study if you are a native speaker of that language or if you have taken first-year courses at a college and received transfer credit.