{"id":386,"date":"2011-11-14T13:38:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T18:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mathematics\/?page_id=386"},"modified":"2022-06-30T17:27:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T21:27:35","slug":"transfer-credit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mathematics\/academics\/transfer-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For any transfer credit questions in Mathematics, talk with the current department chair. \u00a0Students seeking to transfer credits from other colleges are encouraged to seek approval for those courses BEFORE registering for them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Math 105 (Calculus I) and Math 106 (Calculus II) at Bates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Math 105 covers techniques of differentiation (such as the product and chain rules), applications of the derivative (such as finding maxima and minima and doing optimizations), and an introduction to the definite integral. Math 106 covers techniques and applications of integration, as well as infinite series (including Taylor series).<\/p>\n<p><strong>AP scores giving\u00a0credit for math courses at Bates<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A 4 or 5 on the BC Calculus exam earns credit for Math 105 and 106.<\/li>\n<li>A 4 or 5 on the AB Calculus exam earns credit for Math 105, as does a 4 or 5 on the AB<br \/>\nportion of the BC exam.<\/li>\n<li>A 4 or 5 on the Statistics exam earns credit for Math 101.<\/li>\n<li>You may also wish to consult the Bates Registrar&#8217;s policies on Advanced Placement, which you can find\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Advanced Placement\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/registrar\/academic-record\/non-bates-credit\/advanced-placement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Clarifications about not double-counting AP credits<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If Bates has granted you\u00a0AP credit for both Math 105 and Math 106, you cannot\u00a0take one or both of those courses here to earn more graduation credit(s)<\/li>\n<li>If you earned\u00a0a 4 or 5 on the AB exam and then a 4 or 5 on the BC exam, you earn a total of t<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">wo credits at Bates, one for Math 105 and one for Math 106.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>If\u00a0you earned\u00a0a 4 or 5 on the AB exam and then a 3 or lower on the BC exam with a 4 or 5 on its AB subscore portion, you earn one\u00a0Bates credit\u00a0for Math 105.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>IB (International Baccalaureate) math<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>For the Mathematics: analysis and approaches HL (Higher Level) course:\u00a0 \u00a0 A score of 5 gives credit for Math 105.\u00a0 \u00a0Scores of 6 or 7 earn credit for both Math 105 and 106.<br \/>\nFor the Mathematics: applications and interpretation HL\u00a0\u00a0(Higher Level) course: A score of 5, 6, or 7 earns credit for Math 105.<\/div>\n<div>No Bates credit is awarded for either of the corresponding SL (Standard\u00a0Level) courses,\u00a0no matter the score.<\/div>\n<p><strong>A-level math<\/strong><br \/>\nA grade of A in A-level Mathematics earns credit for Math 105 and Math 106. A grade of B or C in A-level Mathematics earns credit for Math 105. \u00a0A grade of A or B in A-level Further Mathematics earns one unspecified credit in Bates Math. No credit is earned for O-level or AS-level mathematics. No double-counting with AP or IB is allowed. For further information, see\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/A-Level-Policy.xml\">https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/A-Level-Policy.xml<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For any transfer credit questions in Mathematics, talk with the current department&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-386","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2376,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/386\/revisions\/2376"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}