Exemption with Credit
AP Credit: Converse University awards advanced placement in the form of Exemption with Credit to entering undergraduates on the basis of College Entrance Examination Board- tested Advanced Placement courses taken in high school. Students receiving a grade of 4 or higher on the AP Music Theory Examination are allowed to be exempt from the Basic Elements of Music Theory class, MUT 101. The Petrie School of Music follows the University guidelines in determining the Converse courses for which this credit may be substituted.
IB Credit: Converse University also grants exemptions from certain General Education Requirements to students who submit acceptable scores on the International Baccalaureate examination.
Exemption Tests: The Petrie School of Music makes available the following Exemption with Credit procedure for all of its undergraduate courses except for Applied Lessons and Ensembles.
- Exemption with Credit procedures may not be used to exempt a course previously failed by the student
- Exemption tests are offered by request ONLY during regular examination periods at the ends of terms. A special examination fee of $25 must be paid to the Administrative Assistant of the Petrie School of Music before taking the exemption test.
- The examiner turns a graded copy of the student’s test into the Music Office, where it is placed in their file.
- A minimum grade of B-, as determined by the instructor, is required to achieve exemption with credit.
- A student may attempt the exemption process for a given course only once.
Exemption without Credit
The School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, The School of Business and Data Science, and The Graduate School grant Advanced Placement (Exemption without Credit) based on high school transcripts, SAT scores, or placement examinations in several fields, notably Modern Languages, Mathematics, and English Composition. In addition, the Petrie School of Music allows such exemptions occasionally based on placement testing. When such an exemption is granted in a course specifically required in a music major’s degree program, the credit hour(s) involved are not removed from the student’s obligation: required Humanities and Sciences courses must be replaced with Humanities and Science electives; required Music courses must be replaced with music electives.
NOTE: NO exemptions- with or without credit- are available in courses classified as Applied Lessons or Ensembles.