Effective written communication is an institutional-level outcome at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte). For many of our undergraduates, foundational writing instruction comes from the first-year writing (FYW) UWRT 1103 or 1104 course, “Writing and Inquiry in Academic Contexts.” Recent Board of Governors changes in the system-wide policy requires college credit for first-year writing be given students who pass the high school Advanced Placement (AP) exam with a score of three or better. This means a greater number of UNC Charlotte students will be exempt from taking UWRT 1103 or 1104 than ever before. This project investigates how well undergraduates transfer the writing knowledge and skills they developed in high school AP classes to subsequent writing in their courses during their first-year at UNC Charlotte. We intend to conduct a mixed-methods study of the writing of students with AP scores of 3, 4, and 5 that exempt them from UWRT 1103/1104. The results will complement our existing research on students’ transfer of writing skills from FYW to subsequent classes and will inform the FYW curriculum.