<p>So what placement tests are available/required to take during freshman orientation? If we have the qualifying AP test scores for acceleration credit and for advanced classes (5 on foreign languages or english or chem/physics/calc) do we still need to bother with them? Does anyone know?</p>
<p>If you get a 5 in a foreign language AP test, you don’t need to take that language’s placement test. The same is true for most 4’s, except for Spanish and/or any others that may have changed this year. If you want to take Physical Chemistry (only very prepared freshman would take it as it is typically taken by Juniors) or Freshman Organic Chemistry, you have to take the chemistry placement exam and get approx 50% (very easy). If you want to place higher than what your AP test placed you (5 places into 118, the highest), you also have to take the chem placement exam. Anyone wanting to take an intro calc class (112, 115 or 120) has to take the online placement exam, print off the results, and bring it with them to the preregistration meeting. AP tests do not matter. If you want to take more advanced math (222/225 or 230/250), there is no test. You just okay it with the professor. Finally, there is no placement in English, you choose and in physics, placement is based off solely AP tests, but you can get easy permission to take anything you want.</p>