| I took 1 year of honors chemistry and 1 year of AP chemistry in HS. On the AP test, as I left I told our principal that I got a 5. It was a breeze.
I came to Mudd and thought frosh chem was going to be super easy. I was wrong. I think I ended up with a C+ second semester.
I hear that, on average, less than one person a year passes out of frosh chem. If you've only been prepared with AP chem I don't think you really have a shot. If chemistry is an obsession and you've taken college-level classes in it and/or studied on your own, you probably have a decent shot of passing that test.
Also, Apathy, Mudd assumes that everyone has taken AP-level classes in HS. Unless you are a savant, passing because you don't want to do it typically doesn't work. Most of the time when someone is good enough to skip a class it is because they are extremely proficient at it and that often comes from an interest in the subject matter. |