UNIVERSITY RECOGNITION OF ADVANCED PLACEMENT 

Over 100 universities and colleges across Canada accept Advanced Placement exam scores for credit and/or advanced placement (check the AP Canada website www.ap.ca for a complete listing and specific details).  Many more schools in the United States also accept Advanced Placement exam scores (check the College Board website at  http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/about.html)

AP students at the University of Calgary will automatically receive advanced credit or advanced placement in approved courses where they present grades of 4 or higher. In the case of advanced credit, a grade of “CR” will be recorded on the student’s record. Official AP transcripts are required as part of the evaluation process. Advanced Placement courses approved for advanced credit or advanced placement are listed below:

The University of Alberta also has a similar system for awarding equivalencies.  However, the U of A also uses Advanced Placement exam scores to calculate a student’s admission average.  See the information below from the U of A website (http://www.registrar.ualberta.ca/ro.cfm?id=1041)

Admission Averages

Students will receive the following percent grades for work completed in the AP program. Note that the University will use the highest results from either the AP course or the local course. For example, if a student presents both English AP and English Language Arts 30-1, the University would select the higher of the two results when calculating admissions and awards averages.