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Placement Credits

Some students interested in engineering enter Smith College having taken Advanced Placement (AP) examinations in one or more topics.  Below is a summary of the guidelines developed for placing engineering students who enter with Advanced Placement (AP) credit. 

A score of 4 or 5 is required by the college for recognition of AP credit on a student’s transcript and is required for placement according to the guidelines below.

Students entering with credit from AP exams in Calculus (BC), Chemistry, Statistics, Computer Science or Physics (C only) are not required to take any further courses in those subjects to satisfy the requirements for the engineering major.

AP Exam
(4 or 5)

Equivalent Smith Course(s)

Placement

Calculus AB

 MAT 111

MAT 114

Calculus BC

MAT 111 & 112 

PHY 210

Chemistry

CHM 111

Chemistry requirement satisfied

Computer Science
(A or AB) 

CSC 111

Computer science requirement satisfied

Physics B

none

PHY 117 or 118 as advised by the physics faculty

Physics C 

PHY 117 & 118

EGR 270 as advised by the physics faculty

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