Advanced Placement

Advanced placement courses taken in high school may qualify students for advanced placement credits at Fisk. Students are encouraged to submit the results of their College Board tests to the University for evaluation and credit toward their college program. Students who have not participated in the advanced placement program, but who believe that their record is outstanding, are encouraged to submit the results of the appropriate College Board Achievement Tests for similar evaluation and credit.

An entering student may receive advanced placement and course credit by scoring either 4 or 5 on the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) Advanced Placement Examination, or by performing satisfactorily on a departmentally prescribed and administered test. Course credit must, however, be approved by the appropriate department at Fisk. A few departments may grant credits for a score of 3.

Entering freshmen, who have taken college work during their junior or senior year in high school or during summers prior to acceptance at Fisk, must report such work to the Office of Admissions. Credit will be awarded only upon determination that the work was in a course regularly offered in the curriculum of an accredited college or university. The question of credit must be settled in advance of the student's first registration at Fisk.

Once an applicant has been accepted in the University, any post-secondary work taken elsewhere will be considered exactly as it would be with a regularly enrolled Fisk student. There must be exceptional justification for taking courses at other institutions for academic credit.