Can cadets transfer credits or validate courses?
When you enter the Academy, you’ll take several validation tests offered by the various academic departments. Successful completion of a test will enable you to be placed in an accelerated or advanced course, or perhaps to receive validation credit and substitute another course. Representatives from each department review transcripts of new cadets who have prior college credit. Credit may be awarded for any satisfactorily completed college course that is equivalent to a course in the Academy curriculum. A cadet who passes a validation examination or who makes an acceptable score on a College Board Advanced Placement examination may also earn validation credit. Departments certify this credit to the Office of Registrar, Customer Service.
