<p>Also, a note to you and any other incoming students- Don’t do an excessive amount of studying to get into a harder section. You really aren’t doing yourself any favors. It doesn’t give you an advantage in anything (like a GPA boost). It’s just harder. By all means if you think you know the material and feel like you would be bored (although keep in mind all mudd freshman classes are likely to go way more in dept than your high school classes), then by all means take the placement test. I think some of the people in the advanced physics section told me that although it was harder, they got slightly less work. Not sure how accurate that really is. I know for Math 25 (I think they’re changing the name again this year… they’re separating Calculus and Linear Algebra into two half semester courses for you guys) we had a Black and a Gold section. You could get into the Black section by exam, and was usually if you had taken BC calc. Even though I had taken BC calc, I still didn’t do that great on the exam, and I wouldn’t want to have taken an advanced section anyway (my high school wasn’t the best to say the least). It was just more theory based/ more proofs… which I’m not very fond of anyway, so I was more than happy not to be in that section. So yeah, if you feel like that’s what you really want, go for it; but don’t go with the mentality that higher placement is better, that’s bound to stress you out!</p>