Page 5- The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, February 11, i'y6 LSA considers limiting college credit for AP test scores (Continued from Page 1) locigal course) than the students who took the first course at U of M." Meiland's letter continued: "While such statistics might be used as an index for evaluating the quality of our entering classes, we also want to point out that the policies of many departments in the college are much more permissive than those at some of our peer institutions," the letter said. THE LETTER cited the University of Chicago, Cornell University, and Dartmouth College as schools that rarely grant credit for test scores of three or less and limit the total number of AP credits that can count toward graduation. If the college restricts granting credit for scores of four and five on the tests, the num- ber of students entering the University with more than a semester's worth of credit could be significantly reduced, the commit- tee noted. Richard Hensen, director of admissions at Michigan State University, said that MSU has no limit on the amount of college credit students can get for AP tests. Last year, for instance, one student received 62 credit hours. MSU requires students to complete a minimum of 180 credit hours before they graduate. "IF THEY'RE bright enough to pass in ef- fect a college level course, why should we make them take it over?" Hensen said. At Harvard University, students need grades of four or five on at least three AP tests to get any credit, but if they meet those requirements, they can skip their freshman year. Almost one-fourth of the freshman class is usually eligible but only about one-twelfth of the class actually graduate early, said Kate Auspitz, director of advanced studies at Harvard. ACCORDING to the Office of Admissions here, 36.6 percent of the 1984 freshman class received some college credit for AP scores. About three-fourths of those students en- tered LSA, and most of the others enrolled in the engineering college. Donald Swain, assistant director of ad- missions, said the highest number of credit given to any student in 1984 was 42. Six students were granted more than 40 credit hours and 196 received 16 or more credits - the equivalent of one semester. Swain said a study by his office in the late 1970s showed that most students didn't use AP credit to graduate early, and that students who receive AP credit tended to take more upper-level courses than other students. THE OFFICE has been collecting similar data on the class of 1987, and will have the results after the class graduates. Some professors question whether AP test scores should be used for anything besides placement in college. "It's called Advanced Placement, not extra college credit," said history Prof. Rudi Lindner. Most departments substitute certain test scores for a specific course. For example, students who score a three on the chemistry AP test get credit for Chemistry 123, while those who score four or five get credit for Chemistry 123, 125, and 126 for a total of eight credit hours. Other departments grant students depar- tmental credits, but not for specific courses.; Hiroshi Ikuma, associate chairman of the biology department, said the department administered the AP biology test to students in Biology 105 and 112 and decided that a score of three was not equivalent to either of those courses. The department does, however, accept a score of three as the equivalent of having taken Biology 100. SCIENCE x . Scientists unearth ancient tomb CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Excavating an ancient general's tomb, two mem- bers of a British-Dutch expedition stumbled onto the 3,300-year-old tomb of Maya, an official under Pharaoh Tutankhamen, one of the scientists said yesterday. A controversy quickly developed over the importance of the find after the British Broadcasting Corp., in reporting it, said it was "the most im- portant discovery since Tutankhamen's tomb was opened in 1922." But two Egyptian experts said the find was routine and of no great significance. Archaeologist Geoffrey Martin, field director of the Anglo-Dutch Egyptian Exploration Society, said he and Dutch colleague Jacobus van Djik found the tomb Saturday while working in the adjacent tomb of the general Ramose at Sakkara, 371/2 miles south of Cairo and the site of Egypt's ancient capital. Martin said reliefs and inscriptions in the tiny anteroom they saw are in excellent condition, but the tomb itself remains buried under thousands of years of debris. He said they squeezed through a hole in the tomb's wall that grave robbers knocked out "in remote an- tiquity" and found the anteroom, about 6% feet square. "The rest of the chambers are choked with debris," he said. "We have not even thought of excavating the tomb itself or the burial chamber. It may be two or three years before the monument is revealed." Martin indicated it is much too early to compare the tomb with Tutankhamen's. "King Tut" was a minor pharaoh of ancient Egypt's 18th Dynasty whose significance is due to his tomb's undisturbed state when English archaeologist Howard Carter opened it. He said the antechamber leading to the burial chamber was filled with brightly painted inscriptions showing "Maya and his wife adoring the gods." 7 Barber Stylists Professional * Experienced NO WAITING! 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