Advanced Placement
Students have the opportunity to earn Advanced Placement (AP) credits both before and after they become degreeseeking undergraduates at UI.
Credit opportunities before college enrollment:
 College Board Advanced Placement Exams (CEEB)
o Students who took AP classes in high school and obtained a rating of 3, 4, or 5
on their College Board advanced-placement tests will be awarded credit at UI for
those specific classes.
o For specifics on the minimum score required visit
http://www.registrar.uidaho.edu/transfer-guides/ap-credit.html
 College Level Examination Program (CLEP)
o Students who are a part of the College Level Examination Program and
successfully complete the appropriate tests will be awarded credit at UI.
o For specifics on test score minimums and credits please visit
http://www.registrar.uidaho.edu/transfer-guides/ap-credit.html
 Other Exams
o Students who achieve certain scores on the following tests may receive
Advanced Placement credits: SAT, ACT, COMPASS. (See
http://www.registrar.uidaho.edu/transfer-guides/ap-credit.html for specifics)
o In the specific case of English 101, credit will be awarded after the successful
completion of English 102.
Credit opportunities after enrollment:
 Challenged Courses (credit by examination)
o A student may challenge a lecture course and associated lab by completing the
following steps
 Obtain an application to challenge a course from the Registrar’s office or
online at http://www.registrar.uidaho.edu/forms/Challenge.pdf
 The student must obtain permission to challenge the course from the
course instructor, the administrator of the department in which the course
is offered and from his/her dean.
 After filling out the application and having it signed by the appropriate
authorities, the student must then pay an application fee of $35 to Student
Accounts/Cashiers Office plus a fee of $25 per credit challenged. (The per
credit fee will only be charged if the student successfully challenges the
course.)
 After the student turns in the form, the Registrar will validate the
student’s eligibility to challenge the course and notify both the student
and the instructor accordingly.
 The student must obtain a score of a C or better to pass the class and
obtain credit. However, passing grades will marked be as a “P” on the
student’s transcript and will not be included in the GPA calculations
 If a student is not successful no record is made on their transcript.
 Restrictions:
 The results of a challenged course must be forwarded to the
Registrar’s office no later than the beginning of the last week of
the semester.
 No examination to challenge a course may be taken in the last
two weeks of the academic session.
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Students are not permitted to challenge a prerequisite course after
they have completed the advanced course.
Credit in courses offered by the College of Law may not be
obtained with this procedure.
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Experiential Learning Credit
o Students have the opportunity to gain credit for upper and/or lower division
courses if they can demonstrate that they have university-level knowledge or
competence gained in work and/or life situations outside of the university.
 For example: knowledge/competence gained in business, industry,
government, and community agencies: or through travel and private
study, or while enrolled at a proprietary or non-accredited institution.
o First the student must obtain a form for petitioning for Experiential Learning
Credit from the Registrar’s Office or online at
http://www.registrar.uidaho.edu/forms/ExperCred.pdf
o The student must petition his or her academic dean and departmental advisor and
provide them with appropriate evidence that his/her achievements warrant
evaluation. (This would also be a good time to have the dean and advisor sign the
petition. A signature from the dean/advisor only indicates support for the petition
and not approval to receive credits.)
o After completing the petition and creating a portfolio that contains the evidence of
the student’s achievements, the student must pay a $35 processing fee to Student
Accounts/Cashiers Window and then turn in the aforementioned paperwork to the
Registrar’s Office.
o The Registrar will then convene a UCC subcommittee and inform the student of
the committee’s final decision.
o If the student’s petition is granted and student must then pay $25 per credit
awarded.
o The awarded credits will be added to the student’s transcript as a “P” and will not
count in GPA calculations.
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Vertically Related Course Credit
o This type of credit applies to foreign language credits. If a student bypasses a
lower level course and enrolls in a higher vertically related course and gets a
grade of a C or better he/she is eligible to receive a “P” for the lower level class.
(e.g., bypass SPAN 101 and enroll in SPAN 201)
o The student must obtain and fill out a Vertically-Related Credit Application from
the Registrar’s Office or online at
http://www.registrar.uidaho.edu/forms/VerticalCredit.pdf.
o After the student pays the $35 processing fee he/she may turn in the application.
o If the student is granted credit they will be charged $25 per credit awarded.
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Vertically Related Course Credit from Other Accredited Institutions
o If a student has been awarded credit for a higher course at another university by
bypassing a lower related class, but has not received credit for the lower class,
they will be granted said credit after the completion of a yet higher vertically
related course at UI.
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