@fretfulmother congrats!
DS did very well:
Biology 5
English Literature and Composition 5
European History 5
Macroeconomics 5
Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism 5
Physics C: Mechanics 5
United States Government and Politics 5
So yeah, he will qualify for advanced standing. We see two main routes:
- Enjoy Princeton and pile on a year more of debt
- Blaze through undergrad and get to grad sooner (he is thinking Stanford)
The problem is if you take even one class that AP scores would have waived for you for advanced standing, it appears you cannot get advance standing.
[quote]
“You forfeit the use of your AP for advanced standing if you take courses deemed equivalent to or below ones for which advanced placement was granted.”/quote
Interestingly, our son is a BSE and is thinking of ignoring all of his AP credits and taking the ISC program (http://lsi.princeton.edu/integratedscience/), both for the camaraderie and for the guaranteed lab positions. Despite this class being known as a difficult one, he figures it might actually be a GPA booster since he has all 5s in its core subjects and really should be in 200 level courses.
What to do?
Take the APs and go for advanced standing. Graduate a year earlier, save some cash and take harder, more interesting classes sooner, risking a very difficult first year as freshman in sophomore level courses.
Take the APs and go directly to 200 level courses, risking a very difficult first year as freshman in sophomore level courses. Spend four years, for they’ll college experience, take more “fun” courses, get more certificates.
Take ISC and throw away all the APs and basically repeat the classes in an interesting way with cool lab opportunities and maybe get a jump on a good GPA.
Any thoughts?
Cheers,
Psy