AP Credits at Yale

mcat2
Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:49:04 +0000

Intro lanuage classes tend to meet very early in the morning on many days. If you are not an early riser (many college students are not), you would likely appreciate you do not need to get up early on many days each week.

In some of DS’s classes, there are some students who retake ochem in her freshman year because she has completed many of these college-level freshman or even sophomore science classes at a local university (her father teaches there.) In the area of math, there are even more students who are well above the AP Calculus BC level. This is the reason why I think taking AP classes (hopefully with many peer students who head to some top schools also so that the teacher may set a higher standard in his/her teaching) tend to be the minimum preparation for the college-level freshman classes at a school like Yale.



the first two Bio courses (120 and 122)

The first two bio may not be easy and/or enjoying. I once heard from DS that in one midterm (not his year though), the class average of mcdb 120 is like 46 or 48 out of 100. 122 requires an end-of-semester paper so it is considered by the school as a “writing skill” class also. (The field trip is relaxing and fun.) Some like this kind of research/paper efforts (more like a college-level, non-premed class); some do not.