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kryptonsa36 · 12-31-2007, 07:46 PM

As a trend, however, all the Olympiad campers I know here opted (and succeeded in) testing out of the intro courses in their prospective majors.

But of course each case is unique. A USAPhO-er I'm friends with wasn't interested in being a Physics major, so he actually didn't bother testing out of 8.02 (I'm not sure why, as that would've cleared up a requirement that he could've used the room for to take a class in his major instead). He's a Math major, so he passed out the 18.02 and 18.03 ASEs.

Your son can make his own decision about how he'd similarly want to approach testing for Biology & Physics, though as you can see, the Bio ASE was both a very popular one to take because of dropped AP credit but with one of the lower pass rates (16%).

12-31-2007, 07:46 PM	#17
kryptonsa36 Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Competitive Central, MD --> Competitive Central, Cambridge Gender: Male Threads: 10 Posts: 546	As a trend, however, all the Olympiad campers I know here opted (and succeeded in) testing out of the intro courses in their prospective majors. But of course each case is unique. A USAPhO-er I'm friends with wasn't interested in being a Physics major, so he actually didn't bother testing out of 8.02 (I'm not sure why, as that would've cleared up a requirement that he could've used the room for to take a class in his major instead). He's a Math major, so he passed out the 18.02 and 18.03 ASEs. Your son can make his own decision about how he'd similarly want to approach testing for Biology & Physics, though as you can see, the Bio ASE was both a very popular one to take because of dropped AP credit but with one of the lower pass rates (16%).