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Advanced Placement (AP)
You may earn college credit in one or more subjects through the College Board Advanced Placement (AP) Program. Johns Hopkins grants academic credits as listed below.

AP Exam Score Credits Awarded
Biology 4 or 5 8
Calculus AB 4 or 5 4
Calculus BC 3 4
Calculus BC 4 or 5 8
Chemistry 4 or 5 8
Computer Science AB 4 or 5 3
Environmental Science 4 or 5 3
French Language 4 or 5 6
German Language 4 or 5 6
Macroeconomics* 4 or 5 3
Microeconomics* 4 or 5 3
Physics C (first part) 4 or 5 4
Physics C (second part) 4 or 5 4
Spanish Language 4 or 5 6
Statistics 4 or 5 4

*Students majoring or minoring in economics must take one additional economics course for each course awarded through AP credit. Credit for AP Microeconomics is granted only if the student passes a departmental exam.

No credit is awarded for the following AP examinations: Physics B, Spanish Literature, French Literature, German Literature, Government and Politics (American or Comparative), American History, European History, Art History, Latin: Horace and Catullus, Latin: Vergil, English Language and Composition, English Composition and Literature, or Psychology.

International Baccalaureate
You may receive college credit for higher level International Baccalaureate (IB) courses in the following subjects:

IB Exam Score Credits Awarded
Biology 6 or 7 8
Chemistry 6 or 7 8
Computer Science 6 or 7 3
French 6 or 7 6
German 6 or 7 6
Mathematics 6 or 7 4
Mathematics with Further Math 5 4
Mathematics with Further Math 6 or 7 8
Physics 6 4
Physics 7 8
Spanish 6 or 7 6

Students who obtain grades of A or B on a G.C.E. Advanced Level exam are eligible for credit commensurate with the comparable course at Johns Hopkins. International curriculum students interested in receiving credit for other advanced-level studies may have their work evaluated by the appropriate academic departments.

Please note: In addition to allowable credits from AP or IB higher level exams, entering freshmen may transfer up to 12 credits from course work taken at other colleges that meet the criteria of the academic advising offices. If a student enters the university with AP or IB credits for a specific course and then takes an equivalent course offered by the university, his or her AP or IB credits are disallowed.

Currently all first-semester freshman courses that are completed at Johns Hopkins are listed on the permanent academic record with the course grade covered by a Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory.



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Office of Undergraduate Admissions
Mason Hall
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

Phone: 410-516-8171
Fax: 410-516-6025
Email: gotojhu@jhu.edu