AP Course Credit?

[eddie]

Hey folks!

Ok, I thought this was pretty funny. Like a little good AirWarrior, I did my obligatory Google before I posted, and, as I was searching for BDCP info, I searched "BDCP." Low and behold, this is what I come up with as the first hit: http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=42

I got a little chuckle out of it...

Anyways... my question.

Ok, so say I wanted to be a SWO or go NUPOC... Would I be able to get credit for those required years of calculus and physics, if my college would give me credit for them based on my AP scores?

Thanks.

 

[Thisguy]

I'm gonna say yes. I placed out of calc I, and it should show up on your transcript.

 

[eddie]

I would imagine it would depend on whether the school would give you credit, and not the AP score. No?

 

[Fly Navy]

I'm trying to think back... but I tested out of a lot of stuff due to AP tests. If I remember right, it meshed with ROTC. Yeah, I got credit for classes because of them, so it worked out.

Take as many AP classes as you can handle. They are great in the long-run.

 

[Thisguy]

I would imagine it would depend on whether the school would give you credit, and not the AP score. No?

Yeah. I was lucky that Penn State accepted a 4 or 5 on the AB calc. Some schools are "superior" and will only accept a 5.

 

[Brett327]

Here's a question for you nuke flavored folks. With all these crazy math/science requirements, how much of that do you actually use in your day to day operation of your various powerplants? Are you really doing differential equasions in multiple variables in order to opperate your plant, or what?

Just checking,

Brett

 

[eddie]

Yeah. I was lucky that Penn State accepted a 4 or 5 on the AB calc. Some schools are "superior" and will only accept a 5.

What if one such "superior" school won't even take a 5? Might the Navy accept the AP directly as credit? I'm not positive as to the reality of this situation, but I thought I might ask just in case.

 

[Steve Wilkins]

Only math/science requirements for nukes is the same as all the other Midn.....one year of calculus and one year of calculus based physics. That's it. So to answer your question, diff eq's not required for plant operation. It may help with determining radioactive decay problems, but there are already nice equations for the nuke folks to use....so again, diff eq's not required.

 

[Steve Wilkins]

What if one such "superior" school won't even take a 5? Might the Navy accept the AP directly as credit? I'm not positive as to the reality of this situation, but I thought I might ask just in case.

If the school won't give you credit, then you will not have COLLEGE CREDIT in calculus and therefore will have to take the full year of calculus again. Sucks, but Naval Reactors wants college credit.

 

[HAL Pilot]

Ok, so say I wanted to be a SWO or go NUPOC...

The Horror .... the Humanity .....

Enough said....

 

[etnuclearsailor]

If the credit transfers into your college, then it looks like credit FROM your college. If your college doesn't take it, then it's not on your college transcript and you'll need to take the course.

 

[TurnandBurn55]

Here's a question for you nuke flavored folks. With all these crazy math/science requirements, how much of that do you actually use in your day to day operation of your various powerplants? Are you really doing differential equasions in multiple variables in order to opperate your plant, or what?

Just checking,

Brett

A couple of my buddies out of college went SWO-N or sub nuke, and at least according to them it didn't make a damned bit of difference if you were a quantum mechanics major or a poet. It's a lot of memorizing procedures... the Navy's been operating nuke plants long enough that they know how they want you to do it.

Now the guys who go to Naval Reactors is a different story entirely...

 

[ChuckMK23]

Slight threadjack but check this out:

https://smart.cnet.navy.mil/

Instant service record data on what college credit you are eligible for based on your military training records. Gets instantly generated as a PDF. I've been out oif the reserves since 1998 and active duty since 1995 and my records came up in no time. Very interesting.