517lakeside

If your are worried about math, and you have time, taking or retaking the HS math class at a local community college can really be helpful. For courses beyond Intermediate Algebra you can get transfer credit and you also may be able to replace your HS grades and improve your GPA. Many schools will allow you to take up to 7 units a semester +summer school, while still in HS. Frankly, I found the CC courses easier than AP courses.

517lakeside

ARCHKID; So if you take the ARE list and average the pass rates for each section to find the average for each school and then sort to find the highest schools you get Univ of Cincinnati as #1 and Yale, U of Minn, U of Maryland, Rice Clemson Virginia and Utah as the top 10 at about 80% pass. Calpoly SLO is 66%.

Jack; University of Oregon is #17 while SLO is #70. Fate may deal you a kind blow.

archkid

There you go Jack!

Although I don't know how much you can read from those numbers. Are they all first time test takers? You can re-take the test if necessary, right? How often? How many tries are typical? Do you take all sections at the same time or space them out over however long?

Must confess I've never really looked into the exams, always figured I deal with it once I get that far.

-sara

polyparent

CPSLO does require 2Q of college calculus, so what you take in HS should help for admission as well as knocking off requirements for BArch. AP Physics, on the other hand, may only help for admission, depending on the level taken. Unless the specific AP Physics test satisfies requirements for either of the first 2Q of college Physics (physics with calculus for engineering majors), then it just shows you took a rigorous course load in HS and does not help much else.

4trees

A director of admissions at an arch school told me that taking and doing well in hs physics is a strong indicator that a student will do well in arch at college. When my son did the college tour thing last fall he asked about physics at all the schools he visited. Admissions people all said they like to see physics on hs transcripts.