I'm so over my head

mini
Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:15:59 +0000

Rest assured that neither GWII nor John Kerry took the Special Program at Yale. (LOL!)

There are many colleges (Smith is among them) that require their own placement tests upon admission, regardless of how well you do on your SAT IIs or APs. I know this is true in languages, music theory, math. In chemistry, they have a special section or two set aside for those with 750+ on the SAT II or an AP 5, so they can cover more advanced material - but they don’t let you out of the requirement. (At least in biology, the SAT II and the AP cover entirely different material.)

My d. had an interesting time of it, as she had taken college pre-med chemistry and college biology, but never took the high school or AP varieties. So she had to go back and bone up for the SAT IIs. Took about 6 weeks on each.