February 03, 1979 (vol. 89, iss. 104) • Page Image 4
… Service Handbook-Gail Ryan Students talk back to Health Service Vol. LXXXIX, No. 104 News Phone: 764-0552 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Credit where credit '4 s due Ty…
…HE LSA Administrative Board T this week decided that students can now strike Advanced Placement from their records and avoid the in- creased costs which sometimes result from such credit. This is a welcome…
…- ts often graduate with more than the required 120 credits, and ultimately do not need the AP credits. Those credits, then, only boost a student's class stan- ding prematurely, and increase his tuition…
… rates. AP credit is not useless. In fact, it has allowed many students to ac- celerate their educational programs and graduate in fewer than eight ter- ms. Such acceleration results in sub-, stantial…
… allowing them to drop extra, unnecessary credits to tem- porarily postpone increased tuition rates. Even for those students who decide to eliminate the credit from their records, the Advanced Placement…
… program provides significant benefits. Sufficient scores on the tests allow students to forego some prerequisite courses. And while students may lose credit for the AP courses, they do not lose the…
… knowledge they have gained. This advanced preparation can allow a student to get more out of his eight terms than he would without the cour- ses, whether he gets credit or not. i QUESTION: A kid on my hall…



