Couple questions regarding class placement

rugbywinger
Mon, 28 May 2007 22:32:29 +0000

OK, so as an engineering freshman I’m going to have to take both a chem placement exam and a math placement exam. The math one I’m not too worried about, but I took AP chem back in junior year, and I’m quite certain I’ve forgotten a lot of what I learned. So my question is, even though I got a 4 on the AP chem exam (gives credit for chem 130), could they make me take it again if I did bad enough on my chem placement exam?

My second question for you guys is this. I took the AP calc exam this year, but as most of you probably know we won’t be recieving our scores until July at the earliest. The problem is that my orientation is in mid-june; I wanted to get an early one so that I could get favorable class times. Do they ask you what you thought you got on the AP test and place you accordingly? do they automatically put you into calc 1 and sort it out later? and if I convince them to put me into calc 2 (I think I got a 4 on it), is it easy to switch out of it and into calc 1 or calc 3 depending on how I ended up doing?

Thanks in advance.