AP/EA Overview
Advanced Placement/Early Action (AP/EA) is a challenging credit-bearing summer program for high school students interested in taking Carnegie Mellon classes for college credit. The classes are actual university courses, condensed and accelerated to fit into a six-week program.
To be eligible to apply to AP/EA, you must:
- Be at least 16 years old.
- Have completed your sophomore year of high school.
Applications are also accepted from:
- Students entering Carnegie Mellon or any other college as freshmen in the fall of 2010.
- Advanced younger students, such as 9th and 10th graders who are Western Pennsylvania residents.
Please note that your acceptance is based on a review of your qualifications and available space in the program. Students younger than 16 cannot stay in the residence halls on campus and must commute from home.
The credit you earn in the AP/EA program can give you a head start in college. At Carnegie Mellon, the academic units earned in the AP/EA program can be applied toward graduation requirements. In most cases these units also can be transferred to other colleges or universities, although some schools do have rules limiting the transfer of summer Pre-College courses. If you do poorly in a class, Carnegie Mellon will not release your records to any prospective college or university to which you apply.
At the end of the program, you will have the opportunity to decide which grades you would or would not like to be kept on permanent record at Carnegie Mellon. In this respect, the program offers students a no-risk opportunity to test their skills at the college level.
