Ontario Academic Credit - OAC

[Jonathan Whatley]

OAC credits are high school credits. They shouldn't count as college credit. There's no way.

In principle, when this is stated absolutely, I disagree. OAC credits and the OAC year (grade 13 level) were optional supplements beyond the basic official requirements for the OSSD high school diploma. U.S. undergraduate credit is offered widely for International Baccalaureate, British A-levels and, apparently, similar credit internationally.

In practice, I agree that OAC credits are probably significantly less often accepted for U.S. college credit credit than IB, British A-level, etc. And OAC credits and the OAC year were phased out in 2003. The only students from Ontario a U.S. college could hope to attract by accepting them today would be years past traditional age, and this is probably a practical count against it's happening in some cases.