Honors College Courses/class sizes and Freshman admittees profile

CyclonesGrad
Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:21:39 +0000

@MomofSprinter Wow, congratulations to you daughter. Her perseverance will help her a lot throughout her life for sure. DD is going BioMed E and DS id going Chem E.

Regarding the refresher idea, I spoke to a Prof at UMN and he said the issue with kids passing out of early classes because of AP tests is that they get ahead of themselves maturity wise. They end up going against seasoned college kids as Freshman and do not do well. I look at it as a star football player in college going to the NFL in that VERY RARELY do you see them star. Most have a down first year as rookies due to the learning curve of what it takes.

My feeling is AP credits for engineering should only be used for humanities that are electives or the English requirement.

Speaking as a former engineering undergrad from the Stone Age.