<p>How are MIT classes different from AP classes?</p>
<p>That’s like saying how the Ritz Carlton is different from the Holiday Inn.</p>
<p>You need to wake up and realize that you’re not an authority on a study because you took 25,000,000,000 AP classes :(</p>
<p>When did I say I took that many AP classes? When did I say that I was authority? I just don’t get where you got that from. I did not have the slightest intention to sound that way. Maybe the wording of my question was bad but I know that MIT courses are alot different. I know that AP classes are nothing compared to MIT classes. I know that you learn much more from MIT classes but my question is how so because I have never taken an MIT class, I’m just asking for details. What’s wrong with asking about the structures and curriculums of MIT classes? I don’t see why you are so offended by that.</p>
<p>Yeah I have the same question, it’s a good question.</p>
<p>SDFried: get a life</p>
<p>to try and answer your question, consider this: I heard of a problem from one of the freshman physics classes (8.01?). The problem involved a cube resting atop a cylinder, and the idea was to calculate what the maximum force that could be applied to the side of the block, so that the block would tip back and forth and come to rest again, and not fall off. MIT classes will pose much more interesting and difficult questions than APs, which are geared, unfortunately, towards a general (and often superficial) study of a subject, and towards the test. When was the last time you and 6 friends spent 12 hours trying to solve 1 problem for your AP class?</p>
<p>Sorry, guys, but I’m with SDFried on this one. I think he was just trying to stress the fact that AP classes are so fundamentally different from classes at MIT that the two cannot even be compared. I’ve never even thought of measuring one against the other. I’m taking 6 APs this year and barely doing any work, I’m… uh… not expecting the same at MIT, that’s for sure.</p>
<p>Again, sorry if the wording was confusing. I don’t mean comparing the two juxtapose but really what MIT classes are like. Nevermind about this whole thing. I’ll prob learn more about it if I get admitted.</p>
<p>can anyone take the placement exams to place out of some classes?</p>
<p>why does everyone ignore my question?</p>
<p>yes.</p>
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<p>adjlad have you read the entire thread? I answered that question about twice already … don’t say everyone’s ignoring your question if you’re not doing your part to read.</p>
<p>sorry, i was under the impression that you needed to take certain classes in high school to be eligible to take the placement tests</p>
<p>can MIT’ers also place out of humanities classes thorugh an MIT test?</p>
<p>no, you get general elective credit, aka not much. It can be for placement in foreign languages, though.</p>
<p>What is the max # of foreign language credits you can get?</p>
<p>placement != credit</p>
<p>So when you are in college you don’t have to go to class if you don’t feel like it? like for History, or english, or a foreign language or something?</p>
<p>uh… if you want to graduate ever, I would suggest you go.</p>
<p>There’s always witherspooning…</p>
<p>See Black Bart and the Shootout at Dry Gulch:</p>
<p><a href=“http://web.mit.edu/random-hall/www/History/melange2.html[/url]”>http://web.mit.edu/random-hall/www/History/melange2.html</a></p>
<p>actually you get credit for placement … so for example if you place out of 8.01 intro physics, you get 12 credits, as if you had taken the class</p>
<p>he’s talking about foreign language placement. that’s a different matter. you get put into a specific class, but you dont get credit for the foreign language classes you skipped. If you get put into spanish 4, you dont get credit for spanish 1-3.</p>
<p>man, I sooo want to do witherspooning. That sounds like so much fun! It’s funny that Harvard had the highest rate of VD and MIT the lowest in the Boston area. I wonder what that stat is now? I bet it’s about the same.</p>