<p>Let me tell you a story about placing out of english.</p>
<p>Four years ago at about this time I went to my orientation and began filling out my schedule. I didn’t have an english class listed so I asked why, and my adviser told me it was because I’d tested out of it. I said that was weird since I hadn’t taken any AP or IB or whatever, and she said it was because of my high SAT scores. I was pretty happy because hey, no more english classes.</p>
<p>Fast forward about a year. I’m trying to transfer from general engineering to my department in engineering. One day over the summer I get a phone call informing me that my application can’t be processed because I haven’t taken the required english classes. He was very confused when I said I’d tested out, since according to him (and most anyone I talked to) there exists no way to test out without AP or IB credit. I read that blurb on the english page but haven’t been able to find anyone who knows what it actually means. </p>
<p>To understand why this was such a big deal you also have to remember that I was an out of state student, but due to MSE not being offered in WV I would get in-state tuition as soon as I got transferred in. And I couldn’t afford another year of OOS. So I called everyone up the chain until I finally got ahold of the dean of engineering who was able to get them to make an exception for me as long as I took the classes ASAP, but an idiot adviser who had no idea what they were talking about in regards to testing out of english almost forced me to have to transfer out.</p>
<p>So yeah, I’d pentuple check on that english thing.</p>