Bryn Mawr College

Credit: IB and A-Levels

Students may receive credit for honor scores on Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, and other exams.  

Students who matriculate in August 2011 or later may count this credit towards the 32 units needed to graduate, but not towards general education requirements*.

Students who matriculated in January 2011 or earlier may use credit from these exams to satisfy the Foreign Language Requirement, the Quantitative Requirement, and at most one course requirement from each of the three divisions.

 

International Baccaulaureate (IB)

Bryn Mawr awards students up to eight (8) academic units for qualifying scores on the International Baccalaureate test:

• 2 units of credit per honors score on a higher-level exam (see below)
  
  
• 2 units of credit for the IB diploma if either of the following conditions are met:
  
  
  • An overall score of 35 or higher, OR
  • An overall score of 30-34 AND 3 Honors Scores on Higher Level exams.

Honors Level IB Scores

Subject	Minimum Score
English	6
French	6
History	6
Spanish	6
All Other Subjects	5

Note: Bryn Mawr does not give credit for standard level exams.

A-Levels (General Certificate of Education)

For Advanced Exams only, each grade of A, B, C, is awarded 2 units of credit. The exception is for Economics, in which a student must earn an A or B on the exam.

Bryn Mawr does not give units of credit for Subsidiary Advanced Levels.

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*General education requirements including the Emily Balch Seminar, the Approaches to Inquiry, Quantitative, and Foreign Language requirements.