AP credit and Placement

Calculus Placement

Many students enter Bucknell with one or more calculus credits obtained either from the Advanced Placement Examination or by transfer from another college. Furthermore, all entering students are asked to tell us whether they have taken a high school calculus course. Students are placed as follows:

Students scoring 1 or 2 on either the AB or BC Advanced Placement exam are placed in one of the lower-numbered sections of MATH 201, as are students who have taken a high school calculus course.
Students who have not taken a high school calculus course are placed in one of the higher-numbered sections of MATH 201.
Students scoring 3 on the AB exam are placed in MATH 205.
Students scoring 4 or 5 on the AB exam or 3 on the BC exam, or having transfer credit for Calculus I, are placed in MATH 202 and receive credit for MATH 201.
Students scoring 4 or 5 on the BC exam, or having transfer credit for Calculus II, are placed in MATH 211 and receive credit for MATH 201 and MATH 202.

Statistics Placement

Students who have taken an AP statistics exam will be given credit as follows:

Students scoring a 4 or 5 on the statistics exam receive credit for MATH 216.
Students scoring less than a 4 on the statistics exam receive no credit.