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The First
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Standardized Tests
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ACT
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American College Test
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AP
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Advance Placement
College Board Advanced Placement
Scored out of a maximum of 5
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IB
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International Baccalaureate
Scored out of a maximum of 7.
A score of 6 or 7 results in credit
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SAT I
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SAT Verbal, SAT Writing or SAT Math
Scored out of 800
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SAT II
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SAT Subject Test
These are what used to be known as achievement tests
Scored out of 800
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Languages
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HSLANG
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High School Language Background
This indicates the number of years of study in high school.
This is often used in determining placement into a language
without a local placement test or standardized test score.
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INTL
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This indicates that a student's native language is something
other than English and means the student is exempt from
the Foreign Language Requirement.
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LP
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Local Placement Test, taken either online over the summer
(as in the Writing Placement Test) or at Dartmouth during
Orientation.
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ALEVEL
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British A-Levels
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TR
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Pre-Matriculation Transfer Credit (from other institutions)
These are never assigned prior to matriculation, and oughtn't
be an issue during the first advising meeting in the Fall.
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DEPT
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A departmental decision on placement that does not fit into
one of the categories above.
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Grade
Codes
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(last column)
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SU
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Superseded by
This indicates that another designation elsewhere on the record
indicates correct placement. You can ignore this.
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EX
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Exempt from
This indicates that a student is exempt from the class listed.
This is sometimes paired with another PLC designation,
indicating the course(s) into which the student should be placed.
Example: A student who is EX from SPAN 1 will be PLC
(placed) into
SPAN 2.
An EX from the Writing Requirement (WRIT 2/3 or 5) means
that a student will be placed into a First-Year Seminar in the Fall.
An exemption does not give a student course credit.
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CR
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Credit for
This means that a student is exempt from a class and is given
college credit for that class. This will reduce from 35 the total
number of classes a student needs to graduate.
The credit may be "specified" or "unspecified."
A specified credit gives a student credit for a particular Dartmouth
course and may have placement implications (e.g., a specified credit for
ECON 1 allows a student to take more advanced courses for
which ECON 1 is a prerequisite). An unspecified credit does not.
A "CR" credit however, cannot apply to Distributive or World
Culture Requirements.
If a student takes a class for which they have received credit (s/he
should not do this, but some students will for GPA protection or
because they do not feel confident enough to pass into the higher
level) s/he will lose the CR.
The CR designation is sometimes paired with a PLC. For
example
a student with CR for MATH 3 may be PLC'ed into MATH 8.
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PLC
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Placed into
This is a recommendation for a student if they choose to pursue
study in that area. A "PLC" does not indicate that a student
must
take that course. A student is PLC'ed into (not out of) a course.
A student will be PLC'ed into WRIT 2/3, WRIT 5, or their
First-Year
Seminar. The cut-off for students to place out of WRIT 5 is an SAT
verbal score of 780 or above, or an SAT verbal score of 700 and an AP
score of 5. These students will take their First-Year Seminar in
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Fall term. The cut-off for students to be placed into WRIT 2/3 is
an
SAT verbal score of 610 or below.
Some departments allow pre-matriculation credits to count towards
the major requirements and others do not. Any question relating to
how a CR or EX plays into fulfilling major requirements
should be addressed to the department in question.
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